Saturday, September 6, 2025

DOWN THE TUBIS: VOLUME 3 — “The Flesh is Weak, the Prints are Weaker”


An Outer Order Zine Insert · Buzz Drainpipe Presents

This round, we sink into psychotronic preservationist mode, bringing you another trio of analog nightmares freshly unearthed from Tubi’s midnight vaults. This time we replace American junk-radiation with some gloomy UK noircore: 1962’s The Brain, a stiffer, classier cousin to our usual back-alley brain jars.


🧠 The Brain (1962)
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ British Mad Science Meets Corporate Malice

Not to be confused with its B-movie cousins, The Brain is a moody UK slow-burner about a ruthless tycoon who dies in a plane crash—only to have his brain preserved by a not-so-ethical scientist. What follows is a twisted psychodrama about power, possession, and telepathic manipulation. This isn't goofy atomic-era kitsch—it’s a chilly blend of noir paranoia and creeping possession.

🎩 Buzz Drainpipe Review:

“Imagine The Manchurian Candidate if it were rewritten by a neurologist with an axe to grind against capitalism. The brain doesn’t just live—it controls.

🧬 Pull Quote:

“It’s the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spook of head-in-a-jar horror.”


🐺 Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
🌡 Nuclear Waste Western with Zero Pulse

Back again because it must be witnessed. Tor Johnson stumbles, breathes heavy, and kills people in the desert, narrated in broken sentences that sound like rejected beat poetry. It’s not really a film—it’s a surveillance reel from a lost dimension.

πŸ“‘ Buzz Says:

“Watching this is like tuning into a ham radio signal from purgatory.”


🦷 I Eat Your Skin (1971)
πŸ’€ Jungle Exploitation with Extra Pulp

Zombies, voodoo, and one of the most misleading titles in film history. This one is more vibes than violence, shot in 1964 and shelved until it got paired with the gory I Drink Your Blood. The plot is loose, the acting stilted, but the aura is radioactive paperback pulp brought to awkward life.

🎀 Drainpipe’s Dispatch:

“If you ever wanted to watch Gilligan’s Island get cursed by a paperback horror writer, this is your chance.”


🧾 FIELD NOTES: Buzz Drainpipe’s Scrawl from the Broadcast Dead Zone

  • The Brain (1962): Black-and-white capitalism critique with a side of psychic horror. Shot like a board meeting in a morgue.

  • Yucca Flats: Desert dread. Narrated like the end of time.

  • I Eat Your Skin: Soft jungle sleaze with voodoo stock footage. May cause false expectations of cannibalism

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