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The Brain That Wouldn't Die(Movie, 1962)

1h 22min | Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
The Brain That Wouldn't DieRating: 2.3/5 (with 5151 votes)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title The Black Door but was not theatrically released until May 3, 1962, under its new title as a double feature with Invasion of the Star Creatures. The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means of keeping human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, along with a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet. The specific plot device of a mad doctor who discovers a way to keep a human head alive had been used in fiction earlier (such as Professor Dowell's Head from 1925), as well as other variants on this theme. It shares several key plot devices with the West German horror film The Head (1959). The film was in the public domain in the United States from the day of its release due to a flawed copyright notice. ()
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About The Brain That Wouldn't Die

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/25/1962
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"O cérebro que não queria morrer"
"Der Kopf, der nicht sterben durfte"
"El cerebro que no podía morir"
"Le cerveau qui ne voulait pas mourir"
"Il Cervello Che Non Voleva Morire"
"Mózg, który nie może umrzeć"
"The Head That Wouldn't Die"

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