For a little-known sci-fi thriller from the early ‘70s, The Brain Machine (1972) by Joy N. Houck Jr. seemingly offers little if you go by the IMDb ratings and reviews of the movie. Majority of them feels like it’s a movie not worth your time. But does it suck that bad?

The Brain Machine comes as a different kind of sci-fi thriller than the audiences of that time, or any time, would expect to see on the big screen. It shows the story of a highly watched experiment meant to map human brain responses following various levels of stimuli. But before the experiment starts, a scientist attached to the project is reported to a military General (Thomas Hal Phillips) by an informant at the facility for stealing a couple of important project files. It doesn’t end well for the scienti...

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