The thing with the 2 heads

Movie
German title	The thing with the 2 heads
Original title	The thing with two heads
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1972
length	84 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Lee Frost
script	Lee Frost Wes Bishop James Gordon White
production	Wes Bishop
music	Robert O. Ragland
camera	Jack Steely
occupation
Ray Milland : Dr. Maxwell Kirshner Rosevelt Grier : Jack Moss Don Marshall : Fred Williams Roger Perry : Dr. Philip Desmond Chelsea Brown : Purple Kathrine Baumann : Patricia Roger Gentry : Sergeant John Dullaghan : Thomas Rick Baker : Gorilla

The thing with the two heads is an American science fiction - comedy from 1972. In Germany, he first appeared on September 28, 1987 video.

action

The racist , bigoted and wealthy surgeon Kirshner is dying. He is terminally ill with cancer . So that his knowledge is not lost after his death, he has his head transplanted onto the body of the innocent prisoner Jack Moss . After the operation he is shocked to find that Moss is black , while Kirshner himself is fair-skinned. So he stumbles from one problem to another with two heads. At the end of the film, the two are separated. Moss manages to escape with his girlfriend. Kirshner's head is cut off and connected to tubes. The head asks the terrified doctors to get him a body.

criticism

The reviews were mostly devastating:

"Unimaginative horror film based on an absurd story, which usually comes across as involuntarily funny."

- Lexicon of international film

"You have to see Oscar winner Ray Milland in this role to be believed!"

- Ronald M. Hahn & Volker Jansen : Lexicon of Science Fiction Films

"Is partly played for laughs, which helps a little over the film."

- Leonard Maltin : Movies & Video Guide

On the Rottentomatoes review website , this film has a positive rate of 0% (based on 8 reviews).

Trivia

• The successful makeup artist Rick Baker appears as a gorilla in this film.
• The main actor, Rosevelt Grier, was a former professional football player and later Robert Kennedy's bodyguard . He was present at his murder and overpowered the assassin Sirhan Sirhan after he had shot Kennedy.

Web links

• The thing with the two heads in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The thing with the 2 heads. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ On Rottentomatoes (Engl.)