A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
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Director:
Bert I. Gordon
Stars:
Sally Fraser,
Roger Pace,
Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
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Director:
Roger Corman
Stars:
Betsy Jones-Moreland,
Antony Carbone,
Robert Towne
A troubled teenager seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.
Director:
Gene Fowler Jr.
Stars:
Michael Landon,
Yvonne Fedderson,
Whit Bissell
Filmed in 1959 but, due to various legal and censorship problems, not released until 1962. See more »
Goofs
When Dr.Cortner finds Kurt dead in the laboratory, the doctor is shown loosening his necktie as he walks away from Kurt's body toward Jan. The camera angle then changes to a close-up of the doctor looking at Jan, and the doctors necktie is now tight. In the next shot the doctor walks back over to Kurt, and the doctors necktie is loose again. See more »
Quotes
Dr. Bill Cortner:
Oh, come on now, Doris. Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?
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Crazy Credits
At the beginning, the title is given as "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." The end title card lists the title as "The Head That Wouldn't Die." See more »
We might call "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" a B-movie, but it actually wasn't too bad. Granted, the concept was pretty outlandish, but the movie is worth seeing (if only for sci-fi fetishists). The plot of course has Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) keeping lover Jan Compton's (Virginia Leith) decapitated head alive. The head befriends a monster (Eddie Carmel) in the closet.
Sound far-fetched? It is, but the movie's pretty cool. And I remember that Diane Arbus titled one of her photos "Jewish Giant Visiting His Parents in Brooklyn", and I think that it was Eddie Carmel in that photo. The things that we see in life...
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We might call "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" a B-movie, but it actually wasn't too bad. Granted, the concept was pretty outlandish, but the movie is worth seeing (if only for sci-fi fetishists). The plot of course has Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) keeping lover Jan Compton's (Virginia Leith) decapitated head alive. The head befriends a monster (Eddie Carmel) in the closet.
Sound far-fetched? It is, but the movie's pretty cool. And I remember that Diane Arbus titled one of her photos "Jewish Giant Visiting His Parents in Brooklyn", and I think that it was Eddie Carmel in that photo. The things that we see in life...