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[center]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.
Director: Joseph Green
Writers: Joseph Green (screenplay), Rex Carlton (original story) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Jason Evers,
Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna | See full cast & crew »

Summaries
Dr. Bill
Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of
his father, also a surgeon. When Bill's fiancée Jan Compton is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages
to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell, a glamor model
with a facial disfigurement. Jan meanwhile doesn't want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the
creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner's unsuccessful experiments, to break loose.

—garykmcd
After a car crash, a man keeps his wife's head alive in his laboratory. As if this
weren't enough, an evil beast pounds and screams from a locked room adjacent to the lab.

—Sam
Volchenboum
The unethical surgeon Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) is developing a technique of transplantation of
organs and members using a serum against rejection. When he has a car accident with his girlfriend Jan Compton (Virginia
Leith), he saves her head only, and tries to find a woman with a beautiful body to transplant Jan's head against
her will.

—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.

—Alan Brewster
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.

—Shannon Patrick Sullivan

Spoilers
The synopsis below may give
away important plot points.
Synopsis
Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evans) is a brilliant surgeon who saves the life
of a patient that his father Dr. Cortner (Bruce Brighton) is operating on. Bill uses one of the techniques that he has
been researching in his studies on amputated limbs and the ability to keep them alive. The research Bill has used is
controversial because the ethics involved include using body parts of expired patients. Dr. Cortner appreciates his sons
assistance but warns him to proceed carefully. As Bill meets up with his fiancée Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) to make
plans for the weekend a call comes in from Kurt (Leslie Daniel), the doctor assisting Bill at his country house, that
there is a problem in the basement. As Bill hurried drives toward the house with Jan by his side the car accidentally
goes off the road and Jan is decapitated. Bill rushes the head of the woman to his country house and keeps it alive with
the intention of killing a woman for her body and transplanting it onto Jans head. One of Bills earlier experiments is
being kept locked in the basement and becomes more violent as time proceeds. Jans surviving body part, her head resents
being kept alive and communicates with the thing living in the closet, telling it to break out. As Bill searches for the
perfect female body for Jans head, he meets several women, finally meeting up with a former friend Donna Williams (Lola
Mason) whose scarred face Bill promises to eradicate with plastic surgery. As Bill brings Donna back to the country
house a startling reaction from the creature in the closet causes astounding results.

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Detailed Synopsis Follows ===============

The movie opens with a black screen and a woman's voice
pleading, "Let me die. Let me die." Title and credits follow. A man is on the operating table covered with
sheets. He is surrounded by three doctors and a nurse in surgical gowns, caps and masks. The patient stops breathing and
the senior Dr. Cortner (Bruce Brighton) laments, "I should have known he was a good as dead when they wheeled him
in." Nurse Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) tries to comfort her soon to be father-in-law, "You did everything
possible. Everything you could Dr. Cortner." His son, Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers as Herb Evers) seizes the
opportunity and asks, "Now, Dad, do I have permission to take over and try things my way?" Father reluctantly
agrees and assists his son by working on the heart while Bill takes over the brain. They manage to revive the patient,
his outcome is still uncertain, but he is now alive. Bill admits he has been working in his laboratory with similar
results. Dr. Cortner does finally admit his son did perform a miracle, "I may not approve of your methods, but I am
proud of your results."

After the patient is wheeled out of the Operating Room, Father and Son wash up
and discuss the medical ethics of experimentation on humans. Bill tells his father he is close to perfecting a drug that
will assist in transplantation without rejection. They walk back into the O.R. to talk, and Jan joins them. Bill reminds
his father about the medical convention in Denver. Jan checks on his reservations. Dr. Cortner reveals that the hospital
has been making inquiries about missing human parts. He tells his son, "But I can't cover up for you anymore.
The Superintendent had it out with me. He thinks it's you whose been stealing those limbs from the amputee
operations." Bill admits he needs them for his work. Before he leaves, Dr. Cortner asks his son about his weekend
plans, cautioning him about the country house, "Place gives me the creeps. I should have sold it when your mother
died." Bill promises Jan they will be married in a few weeks.

A nurse (Doris Brent) catches Bill and Jan
before they leave the hospital. She tells him about an important phone message from Kurt at the country place,
"Something terrible has happened and he wanted you to come right out." Bill drives Jan's car up to the
country house. He drives too fast and crashes the car. Bill is thrown clear of the wreck, but Jan is trapped inside the
burning car. Bill retrieves her head, wrapping it inside his jacket. He runs back to Dad's house in the country
carrying Jan's head in his arms like a football. When he gets to the palatial estate he calls to his assistant,
Kurt, while pounding on the front door. Kurt (Anthony La Penna as Leslie Daniel) answers the door, still wearing his lab
coat. His left arm is paralyzed, his left hand is drawn back into a claw, the skin dark and leathery. Bill explains
there has been an accident. He is cradling Jan's head in his arms, he is frantic. "I've got to save
her," he tells Kurt. Kurt tries to relay his concern about the thing in the closet, but Bill insists, "For
Gods sake Kurt, this is urgent. Do as I tell you before its too late. I can't waste precious time arguing with
you." The two walk downstairs to the lab and hook up equipment. Bill carefully pours a test tube of liquid into a
flask. The time is now 10:20 and we see what all the frantic work involved. Jan's bandaged head sits in an enamel
pan, attached to various tubes and wires. Kurt is astonished and tells Bill, "The eyelids, I saw them move. It
can't be. My eyes are deceiving me." Bill replies, "What you see is real. What's done is done, and
what I've done is right. It's the work of science." Jan starts to revive and mumbles, "I remember
fire. Burning. Let me die. Let me die." Bill reminds Kurt he's had transplant success, but Kurt asks,
"Transplant her to what?" Bill considers the question, then replies, "I've brought her back.
She'll live and I'll get her another body. I can make her complete again." Kurt disagrees and voices his
objections. Bill does admit he can only keep her alive for 48-50 hours in the pan. We learn that Kurts arm, withered and
deformed, was an earlier unsuccessful experiment using an earlier formula. Kurt reminds Bill about the creature in the
closet. Bill approaches the heavy door, padlocked on the outside. Something inside is breathing abnormally. Bill peers
inside through an observation door near the top. He is horrified by what he sees. "Keep it locked," he tells
his assistant. He then turns his attention back to his fiancée, "I've got to think about her now. I've
got to find her a body." "How are you going to go about getting one?" Kurt asks. Bill assures his
assistant that there are ways.

It is late evening and Bill decides to go cruising at a local strip club, The
Moulin Rouge. Outside the entrance, he sees two cut out display boards of strippers, a blonde and a brunette. He likes
what he sees, obviously the discriminating shopper. Inside the blonde stripper (Bonnie Sharie) does her show for the
patrons of both sexes. Bill wanders in and takes a stool at the bar. Blondie wanders over and bumps and grinds to get
Bill's attention. The brunette stripper (Paula Maurice), a bit masculine looking, is jealous of her co-worker. When
the blonde finishes her act, she heads for the dressing room. This gives the brunette a chance to make eyes at Bill. A
table becomes available and Bill sits down next to the brunette and chats. Blondie comes back and joins Bill at his
table. At the house, Jan is resting in her pan. Blondie goes back to her dressing room, and Bill follows. They chat. Jan
begins to mumble again about dying. Bill is getting a little anxious and tells the stripper, "You may be just what
I'm looking for." Before Bill can close the deal, the brunette enters the dressing room and changes. Bill is
concerned that a witness is more than he can handle. When the girls get catty with each other, Bill excuses himself. The
brunette tells Bill, "Come back later, I'll remember you." "That's what I'm afraid
of," he replies. The blonde and brunette strippers get into a fight. We close this charming scene with a camera pan
up the wall to a pair of cat paintings and someone meowing. [Note: Yes, we get it, a cat fight!]

Jan awakens
and looks around the lab. Her brain waves register high on the equipment. She calls out to the creature in the closet,
"What has he done to you?" It is mute, so she directs it to knock once if it hears her. Kurt is attracted by
the noises downstairs. Jan expresses her anger and disappointment at Bill for what he's done to her. She invites
the creature to join her in a plot of revenge. Kurt goes down to the lab and Jan pretends to be asleep. Kurt tip-toes
over to the closet and listens at the door. It pounds on the door and Kurt jumps. Jan laughs hysterically. Kurt runs
over to the lab table and confronts his tormentor. Jan asks Kurt, "What's locked behind that door?"
"Horror: no normal mind can imagine. Something even more terrible than you," Kurt replies. But Jan corrects
him, "No, my deformed friend. Like all quantities of...horror has its ultimate, and I am that." Kurt explains
that Bill's experimental mistakes are summarized by the creature behind the closet door. Jan realizes what Bill has
been doing at the country house and Kurt's part in the grotesque work. Kurt lost his arm in a lab accident, and
Bill promised to restore it. Jan realizes that Bill intends to transplant her head onto another woman's body. Jan
explains the new serum has given her power Bill never expected. She demonstrates for Kurt. The terrified lab assistant
runs when the creature tries to force the closet door off its hinges. Kurt runs into Bill in the living room and asks if
he was successful in finding a woman. Bill explains he can't be the last person seen with a woman before she
disappears.

The next morning Bill goes cruising in his car. He runs into a woman acquaintance, Donna Williams
(Lola Mason). Donna suggests a bathing beauty contest, so Bill invites her into the car. He makes an excuse to stop at
home first, but they run into another woman. A friend of Donna, Jeannie Reynolds (Audrey Devereal as Devereau), joins
them in the car. Now with a witness, Bill's plans for Donna are scuttled and the three go to the beauty contest.
They sit down just as the M.C. (Bruce Kerr) starts the show. The first contestant is Helen Appleton (uncredited). She is
wearing a one-piece swimsuit. Bill nods his approval. Next up is Betty Brockton (uncredited), a blonde with her hair in
a single braid and wearing a modest two-piece swimsuit. Terri Lund (uncredited) is the third contestant. She is wearing
a one-piece and the crowd applauds. Peggy Howard (Marilyn Hanold) is the final contestant and Bill leers approvingly.
Donna notes, "She has the second nicest body I've ever seen." Bill assumes Donna is just trolling for a
compliment and asks, "Second to you?" But Donna quickly corrects Bill and reminds him of Doris, the girl in
school who was disfigured by a jealous boyfriend. Donna mentions that Doris is seldom seen and has few friends. Bill is
thinking Doris may be perfect for his needs.

Jan continues her one-way chat with the creature in the closet
and concludes they must stop Bill. Bill drives over to see Doris Powell (Adele Lamont) at her apartment. He walks in and
she is posing on a platform for five photographers. Bill sits on the couch and observes the display. Doris stops and
puts on a robe and dismisses the photographers. Art (an uncredited Sammy Petrillo) hangs back and suggests some
unprofessional work. Doris makes it clear she is not interested and tells him to leave. She confronts Bill, "See it
all, mister? The show's over. Next time bring a camera and buy a ticket. I'm not running a charity." Bill
reminds her they were class mates, but Doris is bitter and tells him she hates all men. She reminds Bill by showing him
the scar on her face. Rather than being repulsed, Bill explains that he is a doctor and that his father is a very good
plastic surgeon and they can fix her face. Doris is not convinced and tells Bill, "I've been doctors.
It's no use: the scar tissue is too deep. No one can help me." But Bill convinces her that new techniques are
available. He talks her into a consultation at his home with his father. When Doris asks his motive, Bill tells her his
version of the truth, "I'm gonna make your face beautiful again, cut it off and give your body away."
Doris laughs and explains that she believes him. Doris changes her clothes and they drive to the country house.

At Jan's direction, the closet creature has been pounding on the door working the hinges loose. Kurt enters the
lab with food for the creature. He is in a sarcastic mood, so Jan taunts him with, "Your formless, sniveling fear
becomes you more." They bicker and Jan directs Kurt over to the closet door. As she distracts Kurt, she summons her
friend behind the closet door to attack Kurt. It reaches out through the observation door and pulls Kurt's arm
inside. As Kurt struggles, the creature pulls his good arm off at the shoulder. Kurt wanders around the lab and house,
smearing blood all over the walls. In cinema's longest death scene, Kurt wanders back to the lab and collapses and
dies of shock and blood loss. All the while Jan giggles and laughs.

Bill arrives home with Doris. Bill tells
Doris he will mix some drinks and they will wait for his father to return. Bill discovers Kurt's body in the lab
and covers it with a sheet. He closes, but forgets to lock the observation door and then he mixes the drinks. He adds a
powerful sedative to Doris' drink. Bill walks back upstairs and gives Doris the spiked drink. Doris consumes the
drink, and then accuses Bill of putting something in her drink. She collapses and Bill carries her down to the lab in
his arms. Bill proudly announces to Jan, "I told you I'd bring you a body. A beautiful one. Soon it will be
yours." Bill rationalizes his intentions to Jan as he prepares for surgery. Jan tells Bill, "You must be
stopped." Bill needs quiet, so he places a strip of tape over Jan's mouth. Just as Bill prepares to cut off
Doris' head, a pounding sound comes from the closet. Bill walks over to the door. He does not notice the
observation door is unsecured. He looks back at Jan. The observation door opens and a large hand and arm reaches out to
the doctor. It pulls him back and the door pulls loose from the casing. A grotesque creature (Eddie Carmel) emerges,
still holding Bill Cortner through the door. It is a misshapen mess with one bulging eye, folds of scar tissue for a
face and a pointed head. It carries the door and its victim across the lab. It manages to knock a flask of flammable
liquid on the floor starting a fire. It throws Bill to the floor, discards the closet door, and approaches the doctor.
It easily picks Bill up in its arms and chews a sizeable piece of his face off. At Jan's direction, it carries the
unconscious Doris off the operating table and out of the burning lab. A stunned and dazed Dr. Cortner is still lying on
the floor. Jan tells him, "I told you to let me die." We close to a black screen and Jan laughing. [Note: The
end title card reads, The Head That Wouldn't Die and a copyright year as 1960.]

7/10
A Little Head, Any One?
gftbiloxi11 June 2007
THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE was considered so distasteful
in 1959 that several cuts and the passage of three years was required before it was released in 1962. Today it is
difficult to imagine how anyone could have taken the thing seriously even in 1959; the thing is both lurid and lewd, but
it is also incredibly ludicrous in a profoundly bumptious sort of way.

The story, of course, concerns a
doctor who is an eager experimenter in transplanting limbs--and when his girl friend is killed in a car crash he rushes
her head to his secret lab. With the aid of a few telephone cords, a couple of clamps, and what looks very like a
shallow baking pan, he brings her head back to life. But is she grateful? Not hardly. In fact, she seems mightily ticked
off about the whole thing, particularly when it transpires that the doctor plans to attach her head to another body.

As it happens, the doctor is picky about this new body: he wants one built for speed, and he takes to cruising
disconcerted women on city sidewalks, haunting strip joints, visiting body beautiful contests, and hunting down
cheesecake models in search of endowments that will raise his eyebrow. But back at the lab, the head has developed a
chemically-induced psychic link with another one of the doctor's experiments, this one so hideous that it is kept
locked out of sight in a handy laboratory closet. Can they work together to get rid of the bitter and malicious lab
assistance, wreck revenge upon the doctor, and save the woman whose body he hankers for? Could be! Leading man Jason
Evers plays the roguish doctor as if he's been given a massive dose of Spanish fly; Virginia Leith, the unhappy
head, screeches and cackles in spite of the fact that she has no lungs and maybe not even any vocal chords. Busty babes
gyrate to incredibly tawdry music, actors make irrational character changes from line to line, the dialogue is even more
nonsensical than the plot, and you'll need a calculator to add up the continuity goofs. On the whole THE BRAIN THAT
WOULDN'T DIE comes off as even more unintentionally funny than an Ed Wood movie.

Director Joseph Green
actually manages to keep the whole thing moving at pretty good clip, and looking at the film today it is easy to pick
out scenes that influenced later directors, who no doubt saw the thing when they were young and impressionable and never
quite got over it. The cuts made before the film went into release are forever lost, but the cuts made for television
have been restored in the Alpha release, and while the film and sound quality aren't particularly great it's
just as well to recall that they probably weren't all that good to begin with.

Now, this is one of those
movies that you'll either find incredibly dull or wildly hilarious, depending on your point of view, so it is very
hard to give a recommendation. But I'll say this: if your tastes run to the likes of Ed Wood or Russ Meyers, you
need to snap this one up and now! Four stars for its cheesy-bizarreness alone! GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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 8/10
Good, Old-fashioned Fun
BaronBl00d4 September 1999
I had a heck of a good time viewing this picture, and was splendidly surprised at its
more erudite features. First off, the film is undeniably cheaply-made with its cardboard sets, limited settings, and
creative scientific props. The acting ranges from very poor(the two strippers), barely professional(Herb Evers as the
leading man), gothic overstatement(Leslie Daniels as the assistant Kurt)to first-rate with Virginia Leith in the title
role as the headless victim alive against her will for the benefit of science and her fiancee's lustful passions.
The scripting though is very good and the dialogue is fantastic for a movie of this ilk.
Issues abound about what role science and medicine have in our lives and what their boundaries should be. This film is a
thinking film in many ways. However, don't be too fooled by its real intent. It is a sleazy story about a man
obsessed with his aptitude in medical science who wishes to fuse together his dead girlfriend's head with the
perfect body, thereby creating the perfect woman for a man with the best of both body and soul. One other very bright
aspect of the film is the sax music which resonates strongly every time the doctor scours town for female beauties.
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 5/10
'60s
Schlockfest
ReelCheese12 September 2006
The opening credits bear the title THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE.
Some 80 minutes later, the same film is strangely billed as THE HEAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE in the end credits. That
gives you an idea of how much effort went into this '60s schlockfest.

But that doesn't mean
it's not worth watching if you're in the right mood. Jason Evers (who would later lend his considerable
talents to such memorable efforts as A PIECE OF THE ACTION and A MAN CALLED GANNON) stars as a wacky doc who thinks
it'd be just super to keep his fiancée's head alive in his laboratory after her untimely decapitation in a
car accident. He's understandably not content marrying a head, so he seeks out an appropriate (though not
necessarily willing!) body donor.

Much of the "action" takes place in the mad doc's basement
lab (likely marking one of the final times the traditionally cheesy horror film lab set was put to use). Jan Compton
(Virginia Leith), or Jan in the Pan as she's called, spends an awful lot of time yapping and whining. Another IMDb
reviewer wasn't far off when he likened her to THE HEAD THAT WOULDN'T SHUT UP! Can you blame her? She's
understandably not content to live this sort of life. But what's really holding her interest (and mine... there, I
admitted it) is the doctor's other monstrous creation, which keeps trying to pound its from behind its
single-doored prison. Will our hero find a body for his woman? Are the authorities on to him? Why am I enjoying this so
much? Those are just some of the questions you'll find yourself asking.

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE
comes to us in the tradition of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, though it's not quite on par
with those films in terms of "so bad it's good" appeal. As incredible as it sounds, the picture is
legitimately able to hold the viewer's interest with its outrageous plot and suspense built up over the creature
behind the door. Sure it goes on a bit too long and sure there are dull moments, but what did you expect?

Admit it. If you haven't seen this one, at least part of you wants to. It's probably that part that yearns
for pure, unadulterated stupidity from grown men and women from time to time. So indulge that inner glutton with THE
BRAIN THAT WOULD'T DIE.
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6/10
Works for sheer audacity, shameless conviction of its aims.
roger-21212 July 2004
For what this is
(a rather over-heated horror sci-fi stew), it works for its sheer audacity and shameless full-bore conviction of its
aims. Mad scientist movies end up resorting to long shots of people in white lab coats talking in sterile sets. But this
one has a woman's head in the tray, fighting with the doctor, yelling at the monster in the closet, and engaging
the assistant in metaphysical questions usually not heard in such low-budget potboilers.

Nice dynamic that
it's his fiancé that he wants to save...but she has become so bitter since becoming a disembodied head in a tray
of water. I remember watching this for the first time on TV in the early 70s and being amazed they used to make movies
like this.

Better than average camera work, also, trying to get a sense of vertigo and movement throughout.
This film with its hell-bent-for-leather pace is a fever-dream that works because it doesn't let go, or tip you to
the fact that the makers thought it was ridiculous as it certainly is. 

Be sure to get the restored version
with the monster in the closet finally grabbing the doctor's arm and making a bloody mess at the end. A great
cathartic bloody end to this near Shakespearean morality play about how man should not meddle in god's business.
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Classic Ham and Cheesecake
Zen Bones28 May 2002
This is wonderful over-the-top entertainment for fans of sleaze cinema. Some people
apparently don't like this film because everyone in it is evil. Thankfully, that is true. There's nothing more
boring than all those nice, bland heroes and heroines. Yecchh!! Our cast here is totally over-the-top "bad".
Leslie Daniels in particular as the doctor's Igor-like sidekick puts on his best (or should I say worst?) Richard
III impression, complete with withered hand and drawn out Shakespearean rant. A classic ham! And there's cheesecake
for everyone with busty babes bursting out from every corner (as long as the doctor has to find a new body to crown his
girlfriend's head on... well, who wouldn't pick the creme de la creme?). There's even a fabulous
(meee-owww!) cat fight between two strippers that probably levitated a lot of audiences back in 1960. And ...
RE-ANIMATOR fans will love the similarities of the angst-ridden head in the tray trying to seize a little power. So, how
can anyone say this film is bad in a bad way? You want "good", go watch DONOVAN's BRAIN, a very competent
but forgettable little film made several years earlier. This film is a like a mad, campy Halloween party. Leave your
attitude behind, and try to enjoy it!
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 7/10
Hey, it ain't that bad
Brian15 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This film is
an absolute classic for camp. That is why it was an Elvira and MST3000 classic. Everyone knows the story. Scientist
keeps his girlfriend's head alive in a lasagna pan in his basement while he cruises town and tries to find her a
body by checking out the local chicks. Finally he finds a real hourglass body with a scar-faced chick's head on
top. The severed head makes friends with the failed experiment in the closet and the conehead comes out of the closet
and rips off the assistant's remaining "good" arm (his other is not right from a scientist's earlier
failure), and the whole place burns down.

The movie scared us so much as kids that my friend wouldn't go
into his basement for a year after seeing it. As kids we ranked the scariest movies of all time and this one was number
four. Only one of those scary movies was really any good (the Original "The Haunting".)

I had to
give this movie a seven rating for the tremendous amount of entertainment value it offers. Its eerie effect because of
the crappy production and the weird sexual angle when the scientist looks for the bodies (complete with porno sound
track) scares the hell out of innocent children, while the ridiculous aspects make it prime material for watching
talking and laughing. I could watch this film tonight and enjoy it while I'd rather go to the Dentist than watch
"Chicago" again.

Seven is the most I can give it, because its entertainment value is mere luck. The
film , as cinema, is a disaster.
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 4/10
Don't watch it alone! Have friends over and laugh together!
Some call me Tim...10 March 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This one hearkens back to the days of the matinée, when kids with nowhere else to
hang out took their dates to the balcony after dumping their younger siblings below. It didn't matter what was on
the screen - the little kids would sit through it and the big kids would ignore it. The adults, of course, would never
see it.

But they put it on video, anyway, along with most of the other creaky, low-budget "B"
horror flicks of the golden age...of television. This film's inherent and unintentional humor is derived from stale
ideology (the "bad girls" harvested to replace poor Jan's crushed body - they had it comin'),
overused plot (a mad scientist, trying to play God), violent yet conscientious monster (whose presence in the
heretofore-normal-seeming scientist's rural lab is never fully explained), and acting that polarizes at wooden or
over-the-top.

This is a great party film, assuming your guests enjoy adding dialog and commentary to
otherwise abominable cinematic exploits. In fact, should you or your guests prefer more passive entertainment, this film
is also available on video in its "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment, in which the host and puppets of
the cult TV series make the necessary additions for you.
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A 1950s Mens Magazine version of a movie
Elliot James14 July 2004
With all the
"teasecake" in Brain (shot in 1959 but released in 1963), the locations (a loner wandering through strip
clubs, swimsuit contests, a model's studio, in a convertible following and picking up women on the street) and the
wolfish emphasis on full-length shots of near-naked stacked women, the movie has the sensibility and style of the
men's magazines of that time (with symbolic titles like Rogue, Knave, Dude, Bachelor, Caper, etc.). It's
surprising that it hasn't been remade and updated, even if only for the cable or home video market, like Not of
This Earth, Little Shop of Horrors, How To Make A Monster and other B programmers. Sure it's a cheap little film
but that's the fun of it.
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10/10
THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT!
nikkijlucero17 October 2004
This was one of the first CREEPY movies I ever
saw...I was about 5 at the time. It scared me GOOD! But that night I put chewing gum in one eye to be like the
monster...and my mom got very upset. She had to clean my eye with alcohol and the next day my eye smelled like DOUBLE
MINT! NOW THAT'S A MOVIE! Hey for it's time it was a great movie. That Head sitting on the lab counter top was
as real as it got back then. And IF your 5 it is VERY SCARY! Kids now a days are spoiled by special effects that show
too much and leave NOTHING for your minds imagination. Your mind can imagine things more scarier than special effects!
(IMO)
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 10/10
Excellent,
atmospheric shocker made for the pre-1977 world
joekohlertrenton24 May 2012
This is one of those movies that
puzzles today's audiences. They're so jaded with mega-million dollar budgeted, hyperactive action films, they
have no idea what movies were like before "Star Wars" ruined the market for drive-ins and one-screen sidewalk
theaters.

"Brain That Wouldn't Die" is a personal favorite of mine. I grew up seeing it
occasionally on Detroit's WKBD-TV50 Saturday night Chiller Movie Double Feature during the 1970s. It was the
perfect thriller to watch late at night (in those days stores closed and people went to bed early), after a long sunny
week in school and playing outside. There were no computers, cellphones, video games, cable TV or videos back then. You
had three or four channels and they signed off after the news. If you were still up after 11:30pm, you felt like the
last person on earth; the perfect setting in which to watch this type of picture.

The film sets a nightmarish
tone immediately with its moody, creepy score and grim B&W cinematography. Yes, it's a low-budget independent
film produced by people mostly just starting out. Given that it was most of the production's first screen credit,
it is outstanding.

Despite the comedy relief stripper scenes, the film was one of the more violent, gory and
shocking at the time and for years that followed. Everyone's stomach turned over at the arm tearing out scene and
my mother used to excuse herself from the room at that point, she found it so disturbing.

Like Abbott &
Costello before them--and MST3K after them--the Medved brothers ruined films like this by burlesquing them in their 1980
book, "The Golden Turkey Awards." This and the post- "Star Wars" culture have doomed these movies to
an eternity of sneering contempt from a younger audience weened on endless laser blasts, propane explosions and
hyperactive CGI effects.

Happily, I got to see and enjoy "Brain That Wouldn't Die" while it
was still considered relevant. Every kid on the block used to know and love this movie--and I was one of them.
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 6/10
Underrated
Claudio
Carvalho3 August 2006
The unethical surgeon Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) is developing a technique of
transplantation of organs and members using a serum against rejection. When he has a car accident with his girlfriend
Jan Compton (Virginia Leith), he saves her head only, and tries to find a woman with a beautiful body to transplant
Jan's head against her will.

I found the low budget movie "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"
very underrated in IMDb. The story is not so bad, and certainly inspired "Frankenhooker" and "The Man
with Two Brains". The acting and the direction are very reasonable, and there are some mistakes of edition (for
example, when Dr. Bill Cortner is having a conversation in the car with his friend on the sidewalk), but these errors
just contribute to make the movie funnier. The make-up of the creature is great. My vote is six.

Title
(Brazil): "O Cérebro Que Não Queria Morrer" ("The Brain That Did not Want to Die")
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 9/10
Whew - guts, gore, and more -
way back then!
MikeB-928 May 1999
This movie scared heck out of me when I was just a kid. It's no
"Citizen Kane" but it has its moments. The arm ripping scene is good. The plot is good even if characters
aren't - could have something to do with the acting. Put some top name people in the roles and then see what you
get. This was one of those shoot, edit (what little there was) and distribute in a couple of months type of movies. This
is classic low budget sci-fi and deserves it just due. I rated it a 9 based other films of this genre and age.
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 1/10
Loved it when I was a
kid....
preppy-312 December 2003
Warning: Spoilers
A scientist and his girl friend are out driving
when his speeding causes a car crash. He escapes unharmed but she is decapitated. He saves her head, brings it to his
house and keeps it alive (!!!!). He then proceeds to search out models and strippers for the perfect body for the head.
His crippled assistant watches over the head which starts talking and has a telepathic (or telepathetic) link to a
deformed monster kept in the closet....

As you can see, this is pretty stupid stuff, but I had a certain
fondness for it. When I grew up in the late 1970s, a local TV station showed this movie about 20 times each year (no
exaggeration). They showed it always on Saturday afternoon TV--uncut. Seeing this on TV back then was great! Explicit
blood and gore along with a gruesome monster and sleazy sexploitation--who cares if it was good? Seeing it now I realize
how lousy this really is.

The acting is perfectly wretched, the production values are nonexistent, the
script is pretty dumb and (aside from the still pretty disgusting gore) this is dull stuff.
There's also a mild cat fight between two women and the admittedly great monster at the end. Also add in an ending
which leaves tons of loose ends. On one hand this is an interesting example of a 1960s exploitation film. On the other
its utter trash. Either way, it's not a good movie but is a must-see (for one time only) for horror and gore
fans.

Also the head's laugh is pretty creepy. Note the end credits which gets the TITLE wrong (calling
it "The HEAD That Wouldn't Die")!
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 10/10
A lot of fun if your expectations aren't too high.
Rheyn23 April 2002
I
loved this movie. Granted, I didn't rent it because I wanted a deep, fulfilling cinematic experience...but would
anyone in his or her right mind actually expect that from a movie with the phrase "that wouldn't die," in
the title?

It has everything a cheesy sci-fi/horror flick from the '60s should: right down to inherently
over-dramatic line, "You men are all alike."

Realistic? Nope. Well-acted? Nope. Good SFX? Nope.
Entertaining? Yes, yes, YES! Once in a while, everyone needs a break from films that beg emotional involvement.
It's a quick, guilt-free 82 minutes.
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 4/10
Disturbing for all the wrong reasons, but nonetheless interesting
mstomaso11 December 2006
The Brain (or head) that Wouldn't Die is one of the more thoughtful low budget exploitation films of the early
1960s. It is very difficult to imagine how a script this repulsively sexist could have been
written without the intention of self-parody. And the themes that are expressed repeatedly by the female lead, Ginny
Leith - a detached head kept alive by machines, I-Vs and clamps - seem to confirm that the film was meant to
simultaneously exploit and critique gender stereotypes. Shades of the under-rated Boxing Helena.

The
genderisms are plentiful, and about as irritating as an army of angry ants. The dialog is hyperbolic, over-dramatic and
unbelievable, and the acting is merely OK (but not consistent). Why have I given this film a 4? Because some thought
clearly went into it. I am really not sure what point the film was really trying to make, but it seems clear that it
strives for an unusually edgy and raw sort of horror (without the blood and guts today's audiences expect).

Another unique and interesting aspect of the Brain is that there really are not any heroes in this film, and
none of the characters are particularly likable.

All considered, this is a fairly painful and disturbing look
at early 1960s American pop sexuality, from the viewpoint of a woman kept alive despite her missing body after what
should have been a fatal car crash. Her lover is threatening to sew a fresh, high quality, body onto her and force her
to continue living with him. She is understandably non-plussed by all of this and forced to befriend a creature who is
almost as monstrous as her boyfriend. Oh, there are also some vague references to the 1950s/60s cliché about the
evils of science run amok.

Recommended for B sci fi buffs and graduate students in gender studies. O/w not
recommended.
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 10/10
One of
the greats
pearceduncan14 July 2003
What better movie is there than this? It gives you everything: thrilling
surgery scenes, exciting car chases, nailbiting stripper-fight tension, a talking severed head, a seven-foot-plus
pinhead monster (sensitively played by Eddie Carmel), and some stunning scenes of verbal philosophy. Plus one of the
greatest pieces of theme music ever recorded.

Do yourself a favour and rent The Brain That Wouldn't Die
today.
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 10/10
A perfect
example of "good" bad taste and a lot of fun.
joe_lvn5 September 2007
I first saw this movie on a
local station on the Sunday afternoon horror show back around 1969 or 1970. Uncut. I was just a little kid at the time,
but I loved it and wasn't really that scared by it. I thought it had such a cool and highly original storyline.
Thinking back, I'm still surprised that it was shown during the day on T.V. uncut in those years. I've sought
out this film ever since, seen it over and over again, and always loved it. One would think John Waters would have
idolized this film. It's got to be not only a scary film, but one of the sleaziest, trashiest films ever made at
that time. And surprisingly, you don't hear about this one as having the cult following that a movie such as
"Blood Feast" or "The Hills Have Eyes" have acquired over the years. It has a cult following, but it
should have really become a cult classic, in my opinion. As far as I know, this came out a little before Blood Feast
came out, making this probably one of the first true "gore" films. In fact, this movie has elements of
Hershell Gordon Lewis AND a little Russ Meyer thrown in for good measure.

Anyway, I recommend this for anyone
who likes trashy, sleazy, black and white horror films from the early '60's (I think the date at the end of it
read 1960).
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 6/10
Was the
monster that guy in the Diane Arbus photo?
Lee Eisenberg8 September 2005
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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Not THAT bad, really
Coventry10 January 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Meh,
people tend to exaggerate! I purchased this film especially because it carries the reputation of being an absolutely
awful 60's production, almost unbearable to sit through. Either my interpretation of "awful" is
completely different from the public opinion or this reputation is unjustified, because I what I saw was a cheap, but
nevertheless creative and dared story with above-average acting performances and groundbreaking gory make-up effects
(groundbreaking when realizing the year was 1962 and hideous scars as well as poking out eyeballs weren't that
common yet). I was expecting to witness really lousy dialogues and ridiculously illogical plot-twists but the
script and elaboration of this film pleasantly surprised me for sure. If you can't get
passed the cardboard set pieces and weak photography, that's your loss, but it certainly isn't a reason to
entirely neglect this film. The story focuses on the overly ambitious surgeon Bill Cortner (decent performance by Jason
Evers) who likes to experiment with transplanting limbs, organs and even complete heads! When a car crash he caused
decapitates his fiancée, her artificially keeps her alive while searching for a decent (still walking) donor body.
The plot is enriched with a horrible monster in the laboratory's closet (a previous experiment of Dr. Cortner that
went wrong), a traumatized model and the stubborn head itself that hates not being dead. Granted, "The Brain that
Wouldn't Die" features a couple very boring sequences that lead nowhere. In an overlong sequence set at a
nudie bar, for example, Cortner seduces two possible hot body-donors but his attempt is eventually fruitless. This,
along with the abrupt ending and fuzzy camera-work, is the only real letdown in an otherwise entertaining and
enthusiastically made horror quickie. Experienced horror fans will certainly appreciate the maker's attempts to
serve us gore and morbid humor (in a hilarious sequence, Dr. Bill tapes the talking head's mouth shut!). Please,
don't let the negative comments and the ranking in the bottom top 100 keep you from watching it. It's an okay
movie that you won't regret wasting time with. If you really want an awful film with a more or less similar
premise, check out "The Frozen Dead" (Herbert J. Leder – 1966). Very tedious nonsense in which the
experimenting doctors are vicious Nazis and the separated heads are a lot less "lively".
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