Angela Stevens is a fine looking dame and is second-billed in our feature today. The sultry blonde plays Joyce who looks great in a shiny white robe and loves to be swatted on the buttocks. Now that's a dame we can all get behind. Alas, she has little bearing on the plot, but when she's on screen, getting spanked or pulled into bed, it is so nice. Okay, the plot in this film is driven by men, as are wars, death, dismemberment, and destruction. Let us look at 1955's "Creature with the Atom Brain," directed by Edward L. Cahn.
Buchanan (Michael Granger) is back. He was sentenced to five years and swore revenge on all those who put him away. He has returned with a Nazi mad scientist, Dr. Steigg (Gregory Gaye) who has perfected resurrecting corpses into controllable zombies. Buchanan has Steigg make him a bunch of these zombies and sends them after the people who helped convict him. The fiends are superhuman, immune to bullets, and leave a trail of radiation. Police scientist Dr. Chet Walker (Richard Denning) is on the case. He has a lovely wife and tries to pull her into bed and swats her little behind. Back to the important parts of the plot. Chet figures out the killers all are radioactive and their blood is some crystallized radioactive solution. They also have electrodes in their brains that are powered by an atomic machine in Buchanan's basement laboratory.
At will, Buchanan sends the fiends out to commit murder. When Buchanan realizes Chet and the cops are getting close to finding his secret laboratory, he warns them to stop looking. The cops keep looking and the fiends sabotage airplanes, trains, and utility plants. Now with the city powerless to stop Buchanan and his minions, and with Joyce being spanked, Chet and the cops have to get smart and quickly track the monsters to Buchanan's lab. Uh oh...Chet's buddy, police captain Dave (S. John Laurens) is captured and turned into an atomic zombie and sent to pay Joyce a visit.
Will Joyce be spanked by an atomic zombie? Will Chet locate Buchanan before his wife gets spanked by an atomic zombie? Will Joyce end up having the world's first atomic offspring? Okay, that last question was inappropriate. Anyway, for a fantastic 1950s scifi/horror B movie, see "Creature with the Atom Brain" and learn where that Japanese fetish of radioactive spanking comes from.