The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) on Netflix
Approved19621h 22mHorrorSci-Fi
Bill Cortner's methods are condemned by his father. A car crash leaves his fiancée, Jan Compton, a severed head, and Cortner keeps her alive in his laboratory and hunts for a body.
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Plot summary
Dr. Bill Cortner brings a patient back from the dead, and the senior surgeon, his father, condemns his unorthodox transplant theories. Driving to the family's country house, Bill and his fiancée, Jan Compton, crash, and the accident tears Jan's head from her body. Bill carries the head to his basement laboratory and, with his disabled assistant Kurt, revives it in a liquid-filled tray. Jan finds her new existence agony and begs Bill to let her die. He refuses and resolves to obtain a body for her, hunting for one at a burlesque nightclub, in the streets and at a beauty contest. In the lab, Jan communicates telepathically with a malformed mutant locked in a cell, the remains of an earlier experiment of Bill's.
Cast
- Adele Lamontas Doris Powell
- Bonnie Sharieas Blonde Stripper
- Doris Brentas Nurse
- Paula Morrisas Brunet Stripper
- Bruce Brightonas Dr. Cortner
- Fred Martinas Medical Assistant
- Lola Masonas Donna Williams
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
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- The Brain That Wouldn't Die was in the public domain in the United States from the day of its 1962 release, because of a flawed copyright notice.
- The film was the first movie Mike Nelson watched after he replaced Joel Hodgson as host of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the series changed its theme song and updated its doorway sequence for him.
- The monster in the closet was played, in his first film role, by Eddie Carmel, a Mandatory Palestine-born circus performer known as "The Jewish Giant", who was photographed by Diane Arbus.
