Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Youd see it halfasleep and then spend the next day wondering if it was really that strange, or if you had just dreamed it up. He keeps his girlfriends severed head alive in his lab. He is obsessed with performing surgical transplants and continues to experiment with amputated limbs he steals from the local hospital. Resuscitated by elviras box of horror classics series and mystery science theater 3000, the brains noname cast and lowbudget schlock are not as corny as expected. His experiments with transplant surgery have resulted in excessive mutilation of an assistant. Today it is difficult to imagine how anyone could have taken the thing seriously even in 1959. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Despite the laughs, it does have staying power and is a part of popular culture.
The riffing is solid, the movie is ridiculously watchable and it makes for a great transition episode for the hosts. A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriends head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title the black door but was not theatrically released until may 3, 1962, when it was released under its new title as a double feature. Sultry, smokyvoiced brunette actress, a former model, who was put under contract by 20th centuryfox in the early 1950s. Bill cortner jason evers is a 40yearold bachelor medic who plays by his own rules. When the surgeons expose a human brain, theres no sign that the patient has a skull. Im giving the movie itself 3 stars and the release 5 stars for an average of 4 stars. You get the entire episode from mystery science theatre 3000 featuring this movie. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title the black door but was not theatrically released until may 3, 1962, when it was.
The brain is a 1962 science fiction thriller film directed by freddie francis, and starring anne heywood and peter van eyck. She had a showy role and acquitted herself well in the thriller violent saturday 1955, but her career quickly lost momentum when fox didnt renew her contract in 1956. Id like to give it at least 4 1 2 stars due to the excellent release. Melton had appeared in lost continent, and would appear later in the season in. Bill cortner and his fiancee, jan compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Tv guide awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, calling it one of the most genuinely bizarre brain movies. Id like to give it at least 4 12 stars due to the excellent release. In the scheme of things, it sits in the middle of season five, but it is well worth seeking out. On disc 2 it contains two episodes of who do you trust. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Keeping comptons head alive in his lab, cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery.
While driving to his secret mountain laboratory to tend to an emergency, cortners reckless driving causes an accident and his car careens off the road, killing his fiancie. Nos4a2 season 2 official trailer a hero rises hd zachary quinto. But that doesnt mean its not worth watching if youre in the right mood. The movie is in public domain and readily available for those wanting to seek it out. Full watching masters of sex season 4 episode 8 online free hbo.
The bots aid mike in attempting to gain control of the ship and get. He quit school to join the army during wwii, and later decided to act after seeing such hollywood stars as john wayne and humphrey bogart. The cat girl 1957 the colossus of new york 1958 the cosmic man 1959 the cosmic monsters aka the strange world of planet x 1957 the crawling eye 1958. And one of the contestants in the 2nd episode is none other than lola mason, who plays the blonde donna whatever you prescribe, ill take. But cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. The picture is excellent and definitely better than anything that has come before. The narrative is so patently unreal that the question of how a severed head can possibly talk becomes irrelevant. A ukwest german coproduction also released as ein toter sucht seinen morder. Mystery science theater 3000 25th april 2000 dvd 97 mins 1. If they had shifted the story around a bit instead. Jones there are actually some cool ideas and some ways the philosophy could have been extrapolated on in the scenes between the head and the assistant dude if this movie was not just so fucking boring. Cortner, a surgeon is obsessed with his experiments.
383 276 1542 933 106 826 738 97 1440 1548 956 382 452 1493 828 1207 425 1029 499 873 235 77 1552 1416 1549 324 1263 1631 414 902 282 1683 1244 1319 1538 707 1098 188 369 1347 506 526 763 456 41 1061 971 444 884