The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 28% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 8052 8.1K

Director

Top cast

Arny Freeman as Photographer
Jason Evers as Dr. Bill Cortner
Virginia Leith as Jan Compton / Jan in the Pan
Doris Brent as Nurse
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582.98 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 1
1.23 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 6 / 10

Was the monster that guy in the Diane Arbus photo?

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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Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 6 / 10

Underrated

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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