THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Joseph Green
Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont
A doctor and his fiancee are driving out to his laboratory in the country, when, wouldn't you know it, they crash the car and the woman ends up decapitated. Grabbing her head like a football with the game on the line, the doc races to the lab, where he puts the head in suspended animation. Now he's got 48 hours to find the head a new body, so he goes shopping. Who will the unwary donor be? A stripper? A hooker? A contestant in a swimsuit pageant? A photographer's model? Or just an old girlfriend walking down the street? A low-budget horror movie with a distinct undercurrent of tabloid sleaze. The gory highlight comes when the doctor's lab assistant loses his arm at the shoulder and bleeds all over the wall. Nice performance by Virginia Leith as the severed head.
