Hitchcoc I've run across this film several times. I've only seen the whole thing once, but every once in a while, I will change the channel and see that goofy disembodied head, moving its lips but not saying anything. It has no lungs, so it can't really talk. But it does control people's thoughts. The whole plot is beyond ridiculous and if there are worse actors around, I don't know where they are. Still, someone said to someone else, "Imagine a head being found that had been buried separate from its body. What would that head do?" Well, you create a little history, have people act in goofy ways, make the thing indestructible, and go from there. It sounds pretty campy, but it is so slow moving and getting to the point that it suffers on the vine.

oscar-35 The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) *Spoiler/plot- Devil worshiper head in box killed by Sir Francis Drake in northern California. Looks for his body in present day time.*Special Stars- William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone, Carolyn Kearney, Peggy Converse, Robin Hughes, James Anderson, Charles HOrvath, Forest Lewis.*Theme- Evil can effect matters after death.*Trivia/location/goofs- Opening film credits re-used the music from the famous sci-fi film, 'This island Earth'. Original music: Henry Mancini (uncredited music). Final film of DIR; Will Cowan. Final feature film for actress Carolyn Kearney. Watch for Robin 'Twilight Zone: Howling Man" Hughes.*Emotion- This film is a suspenseful and eerie horror film incorporating some historic elements of pirates and California Bay area history tinged with horror.*Based On- Horror tradition.

mlraymond The main problem with this movie has been pointed out already by other viewers: not the low budget, or the recycled music, which is pretty well used, or the basic story, etc, but that many of the characters are pretty annoying. Jessica, the sweet young thing with the psychic gift, is just too bland to be much of a real heroine, and the hero does very little. Boyd, the sleazy ranch hand is supposed to be unlikable and he does a good job, as does the big, Lenny like guy as a well meaning , but simple character. The drunken artist is understandably P.O.'d at the way his model/fiancée Linda is acting.The characters and performances that really stand out for me are Andra Martin as Linda, doing a very good job as the nice model, who turns into a really sensuously sinister character, under the influence of sorceror Gideon Drew. Considering he spends most of the movie as a disembodied head, Robin Hughes is very good as the undead magician.Once he's back in one piece, he delivers some effectively menacing lines quite well.The aforementioned are probably the best performances, but the third memorable one stands out as being one of the most presumably unintentionally dislikable characters in a movie. Aunt Flavia as written is certainly not very appealing, but the actress portraying her makes her so obnoxious that she nearly sinks the picture. Other posters have referred to her "dental drill voice" and that they hoped the bad guy would get her before the picture was over, or a tree would fall on her, and I concur.Ever since one poster referred to " the closet gay leading man", I've been forced to look at the movie differently. A couple of posters have mentioned a vaguely lesbian subtext to some scenes involving Linda and Jessica, and I have to admit, seeing the two good looking ladies sharing a bed was kind of exciting, but any possible undertones of that nature would have to have been pretty well hidden for a Fifties movie.It certainly isn't a good movie by most standards, but it does have a kind of creepy atmosphere that works fairly well. I think it's worth seeing once, any way.

Escarpe I saw this when I was watching an MST3K marathon, and even though it's prolly one of the better MST3K's their riffing couldn't disguise the fact that the film did have a great air or menace. The plot is surprisingly coherent and the performances, well some of them are performances rather than "look ma i'm in a movie". The story goes like this, idiot city slickers are present when idiot hicks dig up box, box is said to contain pure evil, it does! Idiot hicks can't resist opening box because any buried box to them means treasure, or cookies, or treasure. Box contains evil head, on the lookout for evil body. Idiot hicks are easily seduced by evil head and do it's evil bidding. Evil head tries to seduce beautiful Idoit hickette because she is psychic and hot. (now would be a good time for getting head joke, but I'm not going there). In a showdown between the forces of good and evil, evil head reveals himself to be none-other than someone from 400 years ago you've never heard of. Needless to say it all ends in tears. However The film does have pacing and suspense and the characters do things you wouldn't expect them to do for a 1950's film. All in all it's one of those films that if it's late, you can't sleep, and it's on, is well worth watching, from a time where atmosphere was more important that it is today.