gorf The Brain That Wouldn't Die is one of the first American movies to feature gory violence. A decapitated head, severed arm, a throat is ripped out...It's one of those movies that contributed to the fall of American horror movies, along with Blood Feast and the idiotic zombie genre. Something tells me the director originally wanted to make a porn movie, but at the last minute changed his mind and decided to give horror a try instead. The main character/villain of the movie spends most his time looking at strippers, underwear models etc. It's incredibly perverted, and a waste of time.This is one of the worst movies in the Horror Classics (50 Movie Pack) DVD from Treeline Films. Skip this disgusting trash and read a good book instead.

Eric Stevenson I was surprised at how many times this movie was featured on shows, not just MST3K. Looking here on the IMDb, this was actually the title of a LOT of TV shows that make fun of bad movies. To be honest, this wasn't awful. Yeah, it is still technically bad. The worst parts were probably at the end where everything just fell apart. What's interesting is that there are some genuinely good moments in this. I actually like some of the scenes with the woman's head. Her dialogue isn't that bad.It still meanders into pointless scenes, especially with the woman whom the scientist eventually captures. It is a pretty cheap effect. I mean, when first seeing a preview of this, I didn't even know this woman was just a head! It just looked like someone sticking her head through a table! Stuff like "The Beast Of Yucca Flats" is infinitely worse. This is still nothing to care for, at least not without it being made fun of. **

mark.waltz What kind of brainless twit would come up with such an outlandish idea? Jason Evers is a handsome doctor/scientist with some rather strange ideas of what his mission is, and when he heads out to the country with his fiancée (Virginia Leith), tragedy strikes which leaves Leith only a head in Evers' game to go where no research doctor/scientist has ever gone before. Now all he needs is a body, and he heads out to go-go joints where he interviews floozie after floozie after floozie in an effort to find someone to provide legs, torso and arms onto the "Jan in the Pan" which makes Leith look as if she's been planted on a record player. Anthony La Penna is a handicapped doctor who tries to explain Evers' theory to Leith and why he has turned to such unscrupulous methods. "The alcoholic has his bottle. The dope addict his needle. I had my research", he tells her to no avail. She finds a grunting companion in the locked cell whom she converses with in ways like, "You agree, knock once. You disagree, knock twice". It's obvious that whatever is there is equally as horrid as the bodiless Leith and that the unseen creature will be the one to bring both Evers and La Penna down once time for that occurs.One of the most absurd moments comes when La Penna is attacked by the unseen creature and appears to have his arm ripped off his torso. It is obvious that the actor's arm is actually now hiding in his shirt, and while the arm was inside the cell's small opening, his shirt was covered with some sort of dark paint to make it appear that it was bleeding. To make everything even drastically worse, Leigh starts shouting, "Kill him! Kill him!". Earlier, she had been moaning, "Please let me die" at Evers, and all of a sudden, the efforts to make it appear that she is going increasingly mad becomes just way beyond absurd. Meanwhile, Evers is out interviewing an attractive model (Adele Lamont, who slightly resembles Elizabeth Taylor) and finds out she has a bitter hatred towards men and gets a visual display of just what some man did to her. When she agrees to have him remove her own deformity, he drugs her, and there is genuine horror in the viewer's mind as she gets groggy and asks in a panic, "What did you put In my drink?". The film concludes rather violently with the revelation of the "creature" (Frankenstein meets the Coneheads) and gives no revelation of what happens to any of the characters there (including the model). I'm just surprised that the writers didn't have Leith's finale shot be of her whole head on fire and a demonic gleam in her eye. Come on, when you've already traveled down this road into ridiculousness, why not just go all the way? After all, there's no rating worse than Bomb. To make things even more eye-rolling at the end, the title pops up again, but this time it is different than the one you saw in the opening credits.

robertguttman When a mad surgeon/scientist's fiancé is horribly injured in an auto accident he manages to preserve only her head alive. He then goes searching for a body upon which to transplant her disembodied head. And exactly how does he go about that? By cruising suitably zaftig 50s babes in his '58 convertible, how else?The 1950s were the heyday of really bad science-fiction movies, the kind that were so bad they were good. This one has to rate pretty near the top of the genre. Roger Corman once remarked that a filmmaker cannot set out to make a cult-movie, only the audience can make a cult movie. I think that "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" is a perfect case in point. From beginning to end everybody concerned, director and cast, seems to be taking everything absolutely seriously, and that is precisely what makes the whole thing so enormously funny. One doesn't need to watch this movie on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", accompanied by a steady stream of snide remarks, in order to find oneself laughing out loud. The filmmakers may not have meant it to be, but it really is that funny. This movie deserves a '7' not for it's direction, it's acting or it's cinematography, but simply on the basis of being so outrageously bad that it is an absolute joy to watch. Check it out and see for yourself.