The 1957 science-fiction film THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS is one of my guilty pleasures. It's also one of the most notable (some would say notorious) examples of 1950s low-budget big-screen sci-fi. The Film Detective has now released it on Blu-ray, with all sorts of trimmings. Somewhere i read more
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 25, 2021
Long before Uma Thurman's relentless Bride swore to kill Bill in the Quentin Tarantino movies, Jan in the Pan killed her own treacherous Bill in the low-budget horror classic, The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). Despite its B-horror status and sleazy male gaze, The Brain That Wouldn't Die turns out read more
Between this blog and my previous one, Professor Damian’s Public Domain Treasure Chest, I’ve been writing about movies for quite a while now. Because of that, there are a lot of posts that have simply gotten lost to the mists of time. So, I figured I’d use the idea of “Throwb read more
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Directed by Joseph Green
Written by Joseph Green, original story by Green and Rex Carlton
1962/USA
Rex Carlton Productions
Repeat viewing/Amazon Prime Not the best in the “brain-in-a-bottle” genre. Dr. Bill Cortner is a hot-shot young surgeon. read more
A low-budget cult classic, The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962) offers all the twisted delights one could ask for in a science fiction horror movie of this type. It's sleazy, gruesome, and short, with a parade of scantily clad women and a mad surgeon hellbent on attaching his girlfriend's severed head read more
(Image: Fright.com)
Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) has been experimenting with new advancements in transplantation and thinks he’s come close to devising a way to keep certain body parts alive so they can be transplanted.
All of that experimentation comes in handy when Bill’s fiance, Jan read more
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Oct 1, 2012
Most holidays worth their while encompass entire seasons, such as Christmas, for example. However, as you may have noticed there is a corporate push every year for us to think about the next holiday even sooner. While this has many negative side effects I figure I may as well embrace it. Since Labor read more
