Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

azathothpwiggins Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) dabbles in brains, trying out his latest techniques on various human subjects. However, his true passion is limb and organ transplantation. When his fiancee, Jan Compton (Virginia Lieth) is conveniently decapitated in an accident, Bill is overjoyed! Rushing Jan's coconut back to his secret lab, he sets it up in a pan full of special chemicals, where Jan is not very... cooperative. Meanwhile, Bill attempts to find a nice bottom half for his future bride, among the gaggle of models and exotic dancers -stripper fight!- he encounters. Unholy, mad science and terror result! Will Bill's assistant, Kurt (Leslie Daniel) be able to stop his insane plans, before Jan gets her new chassis? Ahhh, but it seems that Jan has some ideas of her own which could put the kibosh to Bill and his whole operation. Annnd, just what the hell is that thing in the closet? THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE is, quite possibly, the ultimate schlock film! So many quotable lines! So many crackpot characters! Heaven is ours... P.S.- Jan's laugh shall live forever in my demented memory!...

Sherparsa and this one is even below Z if there were more letters in the English alphabet that i could use!OK, agreed the story is certainly good, maybe very good and Virginia Leith is such a beaut' indeed ... the cast acceptable but the acting terrible!to be fair though, either the copy i saw was edited and missed some small yet important parts, or if it was the whole movie in its entirety, then it's lacking a lot in the plot as well as in the execution of that plot ...maybe since the budget was too low or something but this could have been a much better movie even with that low budget if made and acted in a more proper way ...fine for seeing once to see a little failed piece of cinema history but not more than that ... i'd be certainly interested in watching the new version of the same story that's reportedly a comedy and due coming out in 2018 though ...'til then ...

Eric Stevenson I was surprised at how many times this movie was featured on shows, not just MST3K. Looking here on the IMDb, this was actually the title of a LOT of TV shows that make fun of bad movies. To be honest, this wasn't awful. Yeah, it is still technically bad. The worst parts were probably at the end where everything just fell apart. What's interesting is that there are some genuinely good moments in this. I actually like some of the scenes with the woman's head. Her dialogue isn't that bad.It still meanders into pointless scenes, especially with the woman whom the scientist eventually captures. It is a pretty cheap effect. I mean, when first seeing a preview of this, I didn't even know this woman was just a head! It just looked like someone sticking her head through a table! Stuff like "The Beast Of Yucca Flats" is infinitely worse. This is still nothing to care for, at least not without it being made fun of. **

mark.waltz What kind of brainless twit would come up with such an outlandish idea? Jason Evers is a handsome doctor/scientist with some rather strange ideas of what his mission is, and when he heads out to the country with his fiancée (Virginia Leith), tragedy strikes which leaves Leith only a head in Evers' game to go where no research doctor/scientist has ever gone before. Now all he needs is a body, and he heads out to go-go joints where he interviews floozie after floozie after floozie in an effort to find someone to provide legs, torso and arms onto the "Jan in the Pan" which makes Leith look as if she's been planted on a record player. Anthony La Penna is a handicapped doctor who tries to explain Evers' theory to Leith and why he has turned to such unscrupulous methods. "The alcoholic has his bottle. The dope addict his needle. I had my research", he tells her to no avail. She finds a grunting companion in the locked cell whom she converses with in ways like, "You agree, knock once. You disagree, knock twice". It's obvious that whatever is there is equally as horrid as the bodiless Leith and that the unseen creature will be the one to bring both Evers and La Penna down once time for that occurs.One of the most absurd moments comes when La Penna is attacked by the unseen creature and appears to have his arm ripped off his torso. It is obvious that the actor's arm is actually now hiding in his shirt, and while the arm was inside the cell's small opening, his shirt was covered with some sort of dark paint to make it appear that it was bleeding. To make everything even drastically worse, Leigh starts shouting, "Kill him! Kill him!". Earlier, she had been moaning, "Please let me die" at Evers, and all of a sudden, the efforts to make it appear that she is going increasingly mad becomes just way beyond absurd. Meanwhile, Evers is out interviewing an attractive model (Adele Lamont, who slightly resembles Elizabeth Taylor) and finds out she has a bitter hatred towards men and gets a visual display of just what some man did to her. When she agrees to have him remove her own deformity, he drugs her, and there is genuine horror in the viewer's mind as she gets groggy and asks in a panic, "What did you put In my drink?". The film concludes rather violently with the revelation of the "creature" (Frankenstein meets the Coneheads) and gives no revelation of what happens to any of the characters there (including the model). I'm just surprised that the writers didn't have Leith's finale shot be of her whole head on fire and a demonic gleam in her eye. Come on, when you've already traveled down this road into ridiculousness, why not just go all the way? After all, there's no rating worse than Bomb. To make things even more eye-rolling at the end, the title pops up again, but this time it is different than the one you saw in the opening credits.