{"id":830,"date":"2014-03-20T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmoviemaniacs.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T19:09:23","slug":"the-brain-that-wouldnt-die-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmoviemaniacs.com\/blog\/the-brain-that-wouldnt-die-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A surgeon who scores about an 8 on the 1-10 Creep Scale gets in a car wreck which decapitates his fianc\u00e9e, Jan (Virginia Leith).\u00a0 Instead of crying or buying flowers, he grabs the head and high tails it to his lab where he just happens to be grafting amputated limbs onto things.\u00a0 Every man needs a hobby, after all.\u00a0 He rushes his assistant Kurt into action and together they complete the experiment they\u2019ve only theorized about.\u00a0 Using a special compound he\u2019s invented, Dr. Perv, aka Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) keeps the head alive by attaching things to it, running liquids around it and plunking it in a cafeteria tray full of his special compound.\u00a0 This must be some compound.\u00a0 It takes the place of the heart, lungs, and well basically everything but the head.\u00a0 Anyway, Jan wakes up and is she miffed.\u00a0 Bill tells her he\u2019ll fix everything by going out and finding a body to attach her head to and then they can get married and live in the country.\u00a0 Of course Bill has no intention of grafting Jan\u2019s head onto some uggo, so he travels the burlesque house\/strip club\/hot body contest circuit until he finds a photographers\u2019 model with a great physique and a hideous (not really) scar on her face.\u00a0 Under the guise of taking her to a consultation with his plastic surgeon dad to remove the scar, Bill takes Doris (Adele Lamont) to his secret laboratory where he drops about 72 hints about his nefarious plans.\u00a0 Doris, who\u2019s a bit slow on the uptake, catches none of these.\u00a0 No matter, she won\u2019t need her head soon anyway.\u00a0 Dr. Perv slips her a Mickey and brings her to his lab to do the headectomy.\u00a0 All the time Bill scours the red light district for bodies, Jan changes from a regular old head on a tray to a malevolent head on a tray and spends most of her time befriending the unseen creature locked in the lab closet.\u00a0 Apparently a product of Bill\u2019s earlier, failed grafting experiments, Closet Guy grunts and bangs on the closet door to communicate with Jan-on-a-Tray and the two form an unholy alliance.\u00a0 Faced with the prospect of Bill\u2019s plans to put her head on Doris\u2019 body, Jan takes the only action a head on a tray can.\u00a0 She convinces Closet Guy to stop the madness.
\nJoseph Green wrote and directed The Brain That Wouldn\u2019t Die in 1959, calling it The Black Door, but didn\u2019t release it until 1962.\u00a0 Filmed at dusk and through cheesecloth, Brain doesn\u2019t impress in the cinematography department.\u00a0 The score gets points for sleaziness though.\u00a0 Called The Web and written by Abe Baker and Tony Restaino, the music fits well with the general perversity of the doctor and his body finding mission.\u00a0 As odd and unsavory as The Brain That Wouldn\u2019t Die can get, it entertains.\u00a0 The acting of the main characters is pretty solid and the story cracked me up.\u00a0 The strippers at the burlesque club looked and acted as if they were auditioning for a John Waters film, but that\u2019s half the fun.\u00a0 While hardly a classic, it is a classic of the B movie genre and since I own at least four copies of it, I\u2019ll watch The Brain That Wouldn\u2019t Die again.\u00a0 Fun!<\/p>\n

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