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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, when it was released 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 to keep human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, and also keeps 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.
Directed by Joseph Green
Produced by
Rex Carlton
Mort Landberg
Written by
Rex Carlton
Joseph Green
Starring
Jason Evers
Virginia Leith
Leslie Daniel
Music by
Abe Baker
Tony Restaino
Cinematography Stephen Hajnal
Edited by
Leonard Anderson
Marc Anderson
Production
company
Sterling Productions
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date
May 3, 1962
Running time 82 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $62,000 (estimated)
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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, when it was released 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 to keep human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, and also keeps 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.
Directed by Joseph Green
Produced by
Rex Carlton
Mort Landberg
Written by
Rex Carlton
Joseph Green
Starring
Jason Evers
Virginia Leith
Leslie Daniel
Music by
Abe Baker
Tony Restaino
Cinematography Stephen Hajnal
Edited by
Leonard Anderson
Marc Anderson
Production
company
Sterling Productions
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date
May 3, 1962
Running time 82 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $62,000 (estimated)
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