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Brain That Wouldn't Die

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Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

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Reviews Counted: 11

Fresh: 4

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 4.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: A boorish doctor who has devised a way to bring the dead back to life gets into a car accident and kills his beautiful fiancee; he takes her severed head back to the lab with him and keeps it alive... A boorish doctor who has devised a way to bring the dead back to life gets into a car accident and kills his beautiful fiancee; he takes her severed head back to the lab with him and keeps it alive in a tray of serum. She is unhappy with the situation and begs him to let her die, but he embarks upon a search for the perfect body for his amour, visiting strip clubs and streetwalkers and scouring the city. Meanwhile, the fiancee discovers that a side effect of her current status is telepathy, and she begins to communicate with the doctor's "mistake," which is held captive in a locked room off the lab. With the monster's help, the bodyless woman manages to save the life of the doctor's chosen victim and burn the lab down in the process. [More]

Starring: Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniel

Starring: Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniel

Director: Joseph Green

Director: Joseph Green

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Nov 19, 2002

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Z-budget cheapie exploitation mad scientist film from AIP.

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01/13/07
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

No review available.

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04/27/05
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Not as good as 'Aby-Normal', but fun.

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01/28/05
Staci Layne Wilson
Fantastica Daily

Pretty awful in its un-MST3Ked incarnation.

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08/12/04
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

One of the campiest of all the tacky, cheapo horror films. This is so entertainingly bad, that's it's good. A true guilty pleasure!

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03/14/04
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Oh, it died.

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11/01/02
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Wow!

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08/21/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

No review available.

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07/29/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Hey, they mocked it on MST3K for good reason!

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

MST'd films should NEVER be viewed sans MST.

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07/26/02
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

The outright stupidity of the production is entertaining at first, but becomes tiresome

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