The Brain That Wouldn't Die

"Alive... without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!"

Aug 10 1962 Approved 1h 22m
Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

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Plot

Dr. Bill Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. When Bill's fiancée Jan Compton is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell, a glamor model with a facial disfigurement. Jan meanwhile doesn't want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner's unsuccessful experiments, to break loose.

Written by

Doris Brent, Joseph Green, Rex Carlton

Directed by

Joseph Green

Cast

Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

American International Pictures, Rex Carlton Productions

Languages

English

Awards

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) - Official Trailer (HD)
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John Landis on THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE
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