Dr. Bill Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. When Bill’s fiancée Jan Compton is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell, a glamor model with a facial disfigurement. Jan meanwhile doesn’t want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner’s unsuccessful experiments, to break loose.
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) | |
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Rating: 4.5/10 (6,114 votes) Director: Joseph Green Writer: Joseph Green (screenplay), Rex Carlton (original story), Joseph Green (original story) Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont Runtime: 82 min Rated: Approved Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Released: 10 Aug 1962 |
Plot: Dr. Bill Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. When Bill's fiancée Jan Compton is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell, a glamor model with a facial disfigurement. Jan meanwhile doesn't want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner's unsuccessful experiments, to break loose. |