The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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05.24.09
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Brilliant but borderline psychotic surgeon does secretive, experimental work with limb transplants and tissue rejection drugs, much to the chagrin of his surgeon-father. When he crashes his car and his fiancee is decapitated, his research - far from complete - is put to the test. His focus then becomes finding an appropriate donor body to make his fiancee whole, while the current and failed experiments in his basement laboratory grow restless.
Movie Tagline:
Alive... without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!
Title: Brain That Wouldn't Die, The
Release Date: August 10, 1962
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 3.4
Brimstone Pit Rating: 4.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With B
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Joseph Green
Cast:
Jason Evers ...Dr. Bill Cortner (as Herb Evers)
Virginia Leith ...Jan Compton / Jan in the Pan
Leslie Daniels ...Kurt
Adele Lamont ...Doris Powell
Bonnie Sharie ...Blonde Stripper
Paula Maurice ...Brunet Stripper
Marilyn Hanold ...Peggy Howard (as Marlyn Hanold)
Bruce Brighton ...Dr. Cortner
Arny Freeman ...Photographer
Fred Martin ...Medical Assistant
Lola Mason ...Donna Williams
Doris Brent ...Nurse
Bruce Kerr ...Beauty Contest M.C.
Audrey Devereal ...Jeannie Reynolds
Eddie Carmel ...Monster
Sammy Petrillo ...Art
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Rex Carlton
Mort Landberg
Writer(s):
Rex Carlton
Joseph Green
Joseph Green
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"The Web"
More Movie Taglines:
- Alive... without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!
- It's madness, not science!
Movie Quote(s):
- Kurt: The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations and often lose themselves in error and darkness!
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Jan Compton: Nothing you can be is more terrible than what I am.
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Kurt: You're nothing but a freak of life! And, a freak of death!
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Jan Compton: And what else has happened to it? Kurt: What do you mean, *what else*? Well, it's... It's mutated some, of course. It's changed considerably.
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Dr. Bill Cortner: Oh, come on now, Doris. Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?
Movie Trivia:
- Original plans were for last reel to be in color, with the doctor's head being cut off. Scenes were filmed with rats menacing the head.
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This film has never been officially released in the UK. It was rejected by the BBFC in 1961 and has never been submitted for a re-rating.
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Filmed in 1959 but, due to various legal and censorship problems, not released until 1962.
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The last title shot reads "The Head That Wouldn't Die".
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One of the men snapping photos of Doris in her studio is Jerry Lewis imitator Sammy Petrillo, who co-starred in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952).
IMDB Links:
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Keywords:
Head, Laboratory, Transplantation, Doctor, Car Accident ...[more]
Keywords All:
Monster, Disfigurement, Beautiful Woman, Brunette, B Movie, MST3K, Caged Monster, Stripper, Blonde, Head In Tank, Feminism, Photographer, Severed Arm, Gore, Brain Surgery, Cult, Disembodied Head, Brain, Head Transplant, Mad Doctor, Nurse, Catfight, Decapitation, Cult Favorite, Public Domain, Mutant, Independent Film
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Rating: 4.4 out of 10.0 - 56 votes cast total
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