Z-budget cheapie exploitation mad scientist film from AIP.
Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:4
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A boorish doctor who has devised a way to bring the dead back to life gets into a car accident and kills his beautiful fiancee; he takes her severed head back to the lab with him and keeps it alive... A boorish doctor who has devised a way to bring the dead back to life gets into a car accident and kills his beautiful fiancee; he takes her severed head back to the lab with him and keeps it alive in a tray of serum. She is unhappy with the situation and begs him to let her die, but he embarks upon a search for the perfect body for his amour, visiting strip clubs and streetwalkers and scouring the city. Meanwhile, the fiancee discovers that a side effect of her current status is telepathy, and she begins to communicate with the doctor's "mistake," which is held captive in a locked room off the lab. With the monster's help, the bodyless woman manages to save the life of the doctor's chosen victim and burn the lab down in the process. [More]
Starring: Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniel
Starring: Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniel
Director: Joseph Green
Director: Joseph Green
Reviews for Brain That Wouldn't Die
One of the campiest of all the tacky, cheapo horror films. This is so entertainingly bad, that's it's good. A true guilty pleasure!
The outright stupidity of the production is entertaining at first, but becomes tiresome
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