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List Price: $3.88 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 10 August, 1962 DVD Release : 02 March, 2004 |
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die description A scientist is driving around with his gorgeous girlfriend and everything's hunky-dory until he wrecks the car and her head goes flying off. Not to be discouraged, he wraps the decapitated noggin in his jacket and scurries off to his lab, where he keeps the poor woman's head alive in a developing tray with some coils and tubes running in and out of it. With his girlfriend's still-conscious cabeza back at the lab, the good doctor drives around shopping for bodies, ogling women who might make likely candidates for reattaching the head. Finally he finds a model with a gorgeous bod (and leopard print bikini), but a scarred face. He convinces the young woman that he can fix her looks with plastic surgery and convinces her to go back to the lab. Meanwhile, his girlfriend-head (silenced by a strip of duct tape over her mouth) has developed telepathy and a nasty grudge. This movie used to regularly leave late-night TV audiences aghast and scare the bejabbers out of the young'uns. Decades later, it's an indispensable trash classic, complete with a catfight, a pinhead monster, a deformed assistant, and even a spatter of gore. Make no mistake; this incredible, sleazy gem is a must-see for any self-respecting fans of camp cinema. They just don't come any better, and they definitely don't make 'em like that anymore. --Jerry Renshaw |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Sometimes Unintentionally Funny |
| The plot to this movie sounds humorous, and it kind of all goes downhill from there. However, this movie has some redeeming moments.
Dr. Bill Cortner (a fixture on television for four decades) has a great life. He has a fast car, a thriving medical practice and hot girl friend Jan Compton (Virginia Leith, whose career went downhill quickly after this movie - perhaps she should have quit while she was a head, or before she was one). How quickly life can turn tragic in horror movies, both for the actors and for the audience. While driving his fast car with his girlfriend - neither of whom was wearing a seatbelt (it was the early 60's) - Dr. Cortner loses control of his car and his girlfriend dies. As many fans of horror and science fiction films know, there are many degrees of dead. In this movie, Dr. Cortner has a process for sustaining life in a head, which he uses on his girlfriend while seeking a new body for her. This movie degenerates rapidly from here. Dr. Cortner begins visiting sleazy bars and tracking down beautiful women to find a suitable body for his girlfriend. The seeking of the body seemed to be an excuse for showing scenes which might have been risquA in 1962, but are now often tedious. Other than seeing what people thought was risquA in 1962, these scenes add little to the movie. While Dr. Cortner is out gawking at bodies, Jan in the Pan is talking with the Thing in the Closet (I know, I usually explain stuff like this, but maybe you should find out more about this one yourself). Jan is having psychotic episodes (who wouldn't, being a head in a pan that looks suitable for doing oil changes?) and developing a rapport with the Thing in the Closet. You know that no good will come of this. Before I forget I have to mention Dr. Cortner's assistant with the shriveled hand. The hand looks like something I would have created with stuff you find around the house. I could see why his assistant was upset with his hand; even Frankenstein's monster had a better hand, even if it did come from a dead guy. This movie probably made rounds as the third feature at drive-ins in the early 60's. This movie has appeared on television, though with the supposedly risquA elements and the violence partially removed. This movie is one of those that you either find hilarious, particularly if you are a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, or you thought it was tedious, awful and campy. In spite of the campy moments in this film, Jan in the Pan was done reasonably well. I also thought the idea of the Thing in the Closet was interesting, though overdone. I also wish Jan in the Pan would have talked less. Jan babbled on and on in every scene in which she was awake, and her idea of a mental bond with the thing in the closet was just her running her mouth. The Thing in the Closet had good ears, and probably wished it didn't. You should be able to figure out whether this one should make your play list. Good luck! |
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