While driving to his secret mountain laboratory to tend to an emergency, cortners reckless driving causes an accident and his car careens off the road, killing his fiancie. A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriends head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. Made in 1959 and released in 1962 by american international pictures on a double bill alongside invasion of the star creatures, it tells the story of a mad scientist whose grotesque experiments on human body parts reaches its zenith when, after a fatal car. A scientists girlfriend is decapitated in a car crash. The picture is excellent and definitely better than anything that has come before. Id like to give it at least 4 12 stars due to the excellent release.
The brain is a 1962 science fiction thriller film directed by freddie francis, and starring anne heywood and peter van eyck. A ukwest german coproduction also released as ein toter sucht seinen morder. Filmed in 1959, but not released until 1962 due to licensing and understandable censorship issues. A mad scientist revives the head of his decapitated fiancee in this satirical remake of. Im calling this the extended version because whether its uncut or not is anybodys guess. Webm audiovideo file, vp8vorbis, length 1 h 10 min 55 s, 640. His rare leaps into theatrical film include pretty boy floyd 1960, house of women 1962, p.
A doctor searches for a body to which he can attach his fiancees decapitated head which h. With all the teasecake in brain shot in 1959 but released in 1963, the locations a loner wandering through strip clubs, swimsuit contests, a models studio, in a convertible following and picking up women on the street and the wolfish emphasis on fulllength shots of nearnaked stacked women, the movie has the sensibility and style of the mens magazines of that time with symbolic. Brain pretty much ended the career of costar leith, however, and the actress made a handful of tv appearances before retiring in 1980, after the disaster miniseries condominium. There ends up being the assumption that the films featured on the show are the worst of the worst, but thats not always the case. Brain pretty much ended the career of costar leith, however, and the actress made a handful of tv appearances before retiring in. He is obsessed with performing surgical transplants and continues to experiment with amputated limbs he steals from the local hospital. Keeping comptons head alive in his lab, cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. He keeps her head alive while he searches for a body in time for their wedding. Sadly, this brainless movie was her only well known film. Cheesy b classic with poor virginia leith spending most of her time stuck on a tray. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Deutsch emilian e rumagnol espanol italiano nederlands polski portugues romana. When the blonde stripper slaps the brunette slapper, for calling her leftovers, in the closeup of the brunette being slapped, the hand is that of a male. Although splattered with goofy flaws and overthetop performances and producing plenty of chuckles, the film probes primitive fears that.
Once upon a time before video and digital streaming, most movies were out. He finds a practical application for the breakthrough when his fiancee is decapitated in a car wreck. The lovesick scientist rushes her head to his laboratory, where he manages to. Essentially its a fairly baroque adventure and i do mean fairly baroque about a scientist who looses his fiancees body literally and then, for the socalled benefit of medical science, tries to make her whole again in a very voyeuristic fashion.
Alternatively, use the tick boxes to select only the releases you wish to view and then click apply filter. Im giving the movie itself 3 stars and the release 5 stars for an average of 4 stars. The fiancee of a brilliant surgeon is decapitated in a car accident. Excellent dont know why exactly but these type of films from late 40s the 50s and early 60s seem more scary than the modern gorefests, probably thet are more psychological and your own imagination fills in the blanks.
Bill cortner and his fiancee, jan compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Resuscitated by elviras box of horror classics series and mystery science theater 3000, the brains noname cast and lowbudget schlock are not as corny as expected. I love mystery science theater 3000, but sometimes it ends up doing a disservice to the movie viewing public. Playboy surgeon becomes obsessed with finding a body to attach to his favourite head after a road accident. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title the black door but was not theatrically released until may 3, 1962, when it was released under its new title as a double feature. But that doesn t mean its not worth watching if youre in the right mood. When the surgeons expose a human brain, theres no sign that the patient has a skull.
Much like the wickedly twisted moral of the story, the 1962 scifi gem is a great example of beauty being only skin deep. Please, if you could, download it and seed for everyone so that everyone else. One reason is that i just felt i would not like it. Adapted from the 1962 bmovie classic world premiere october 7, 2016 footlight players theatre 20 queen street, charleston, sc. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to. Its the everyday tale of a woman falling in love with a man and love blinding her to his obvious faults, like hes a sleazy arrogant psychotic scumbag. He rushes her head to his laboratory, where he revives it and manages to keep it alive in a liquidfilled tray.
Bill cortner jason evers and his fiancee, jan compton virginia leith, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his. Gli video e numerato in gibilterra il 25 novembre 1968 da nectar media nella sua distribuzione sangin, amato per sezione film unico in 79. The narrative is so patently unreal that the question of how a severed head can possibly talk becomes irrelevant. But cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
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