The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

Dr. Bill Cortner: Is it a crime for science to jump ahead? By years?

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Dr. Bill Cortner: Oh, come on now, Doris. Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?

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Dr. Cortner: The Superintendent had it out with me. He thinks it's you who's been stealing those limbs from the amputee operations.
Dr. Bill Cortner: So what if it is?

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Giving a lecture Boston University in November 2010, renowned title credit designer Kyle Cooper said that The Brain That Wouldn't Die was one of the inspirations for his opening credits' sequence for Se7en. Cooper told director David Fincher that he had watched The Brain That Wouldn't Die as a young boy and had waited and waited and waited and waited for the monster to appear. He felt that since in Fincher's film, John Doe did not appear until so late in the film, it was important to give a glimpse of him in the opening credits. So, although you never see Doe's face in the credits, his presence is felt.
Two of the film's cast members made quiz show appearances with Johnny Carson. Lola Mason was a contestant on a 1958 episode of Who Do You Trust?, hosted by Johnny Carson. And Paula Maurice appeared as one of the impostors on a 1961 episode of To Tell the Truth, on which Carson was a guest panelist.
Original plans were for last reel to be in color, with the doctor's head being cut off. Scenes were filmed with rats menacing the head.
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