The head that couldn't die

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Movie
German title The head that couldn't die
Original title The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked
Rod
Director Joseph Green
script Rex Carlton ,
Joseph Green
production Rex Carlton
music Abe Baker ,
Tony Restaino
camera Stephen Hajnal
cut Marc Anderson
occupation

The Head That Was Not To Die is a horror film by Joseph Green. The film was completed in 1959 under the title The Black Door , but did not premiere until March 3, 1962. The film is about a mad scientist who develops the theory that body parts can also survive separately from one another.

action

Dr. Bill Cortner is a hopeful scientist whose beautiful fiancée Jan Compton is beheaded in a car accident . He takes her head to his laboratory, where he resuscitates it and keeps it alive in a bowl.

In order to be able to give her a new body, Cortner decides to look for a victim in the red light district and to murder him. Compton himself is shocked by this and decides for her part to kill Cortner because he doesn't allow her to die.

She uses telepathic powers to influence a mutant who is locked up in a laboratory cell and causes him to kill Cortner's assistant first and then Cortner himself. Then the mutant flees with a victim that Cortner has chosen as a body donor and lured into his house. Meanwhile, the entire house burns down and Compton dies with a mad laugh too.

Remarks

  • The cost of production was only $ 62,000.

World premieres

  • Germany: February 25, 1962
  • USA: August 10, 1962

DVD publications

  • In 2002, an uncut 35mm version of Synapse Film was released in a special edition. It runs for 85 minutes and puts more emphasis on the stripper scenes than on the splatter effects that were great for the time.
  • A Mystery Science Theater 3000 version was released by Rhino Home Video.
  • The Cinema Insomnia version was published by Apprehensive Films.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the IMDb , accessed on January 14, 2011
  2. ↑ World premieres according to IMDb

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