The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
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Cast & Crew.
Jason Evers
Dr. Bill Cortner (as Herb Evers)
Virginia Leith
Jan Compton
Leslie Daniels
Kurt
Adele Lamont
Doris Powell
Bonnie Sharie
Blonde Stripper
Doris Brent
Nurse / Additional Dialogue
Paula Morris
Brunet Stripper
Marilyn Hanold
Peggy Howard
Bruce Brighton
Dr. Cortner
Arny Freeman
Photographer
Fred Martin
Medical Assistant
Lola Mason
Donna Williams
Bruce Kerr
Beauty Contest M.C.
Audrey Devereal
Jeannie Reynolds
Eddie Carmel
Monster
Sammy Petrillo
Art
Rex Carlton
Producer / Story
George Fiala
Makeup Artist
Joseph Green
Director / Story / Screenplay
Marc Anderson
Editor
Paul Fanning
Art Direction
Stephen Hajnal
Director of Photography
Mort Landberg
Associate Producer
Jack Priestley
Camera Operator
Byron Baer
Special Effects
Eva Blair
Script Supervisor
Emil Kolisch
Sound
John Haupt Jr.
Grip
Tony LaMarca
Assistant Director
Walter Pluff Jr.
Property Master
Alfred H. Lessner
Production Manager
Vincent Delaney
Gaffer
Robert E. Lessner
Sound
Leonard Anderson
Supervising Editor
Linda Brent
Producer's Assistant
Jim Geallis
Producer's Assistant
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 25, 1962
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Content RatingNR
Budget$62,000
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This Movie Is About.
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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.