Playboy surgeon becomes obsessed with finding a body to attach to his favourite head after a road accident. The question is not choosing one and eliminating the other, but how much of each is necessary for progress. Then his 1st thought it to take her head and keep the brain alive by machinery. This film explores the ever important debate between science and ethics. Cooper told director david fincher that he had watched brain as a young boy and had waited and waited and waited and waited for the monster to appear. Le cerveau qui voulait pas mourir film complet vf 1962. If you like the old ec horror comics, youll love this film as it has that evil bastard gets his selfinflicted scifi come uppance vibe, complete with corny comic book dialogue about pushing back the boundaries of the unknown or.
I guess it has been an issue then and it will probably remain so for the rest of our existence. Its a film that doesnt quite live up to the power of. The picture is bright and sharp, redeeming the honor of cameraman steven hajnal, whose work is just fine. Keeping comptons head alive in his lab, cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. At least, according to doris, the manhating fashion model cortner encounters near the end of the film. Cheesy b classic with poor virginia leith spending most of her time stuck on a tray. In her defense, she was hideously scarred after a man attacked her. Le cerveau qui voulait pas mourir film complet vf 1962 gougouneprod frederic romain. That gives you an idea of how much effort went into this 60s schlockfest. A mad scientist revives the head of his decapitated fiancee in this satirical remake of. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Mgm has the original intact film elements, including the overthetop gore scene that was once a rare item. Although splattered with goofy flaws and overthetop performances and producing plenty of chuckles, the film probes primitive fears that.
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his. Im giving the movie itself 3 stars and the release 5 stars for an average of 4 stars. The film opened in seattle in september of 1962, as the theatrical cofeature with roger cormans tales of terror. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. That complete lack of humor makes it all the more ridiculous. 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. Sadly, this brainless movie was her only well known film. Se7en 1995 giving a lecture at boston university in november 2010, renowned title credit designer kyle cooper said that this film was one of the inspirations for his opening credits sequence for se7en aka seven. His rare leaps into theatrical film include pretty boy floyd 1960, house of women 1962, p. Brain pretty much ended the career of costar leith, however, and the actress made a handful of tv appearances before retiring in. Resuscitated by elviras box of horror classics series and mystery science theater 3000, the brains noname cast and lowbudget schlock are not as corny as expected.
The documentary crosses authentic autistic stories with a fiction story about the life. But cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. This doublebill played at seattles paramount theater, a prestigious downtown movie palace. There ends up being the assumption that the films featured on the show are the worst of the worst, but thats not always the case.
I love mystery science theater 3000, but sometimes it ends up doing a disservice to the movie viewing public. A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriends head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. Anyway, i think what i like most about this movie is its seriousness. Id like to give it at least 4 12 stars due to the excellent release. Rounding things out is a still gallery and the film s original theatrical trailer. It is a sleazy story about a man obsessed with his aptitude in medical science who wishes to fuse together his dead girlfriends head with the perfect body, thereby creating the perfect woman for a man with the best of both body and soul. I remember it being a very different monster film from the usual fare, and i was very young, so it seemed like a bad dream. The hugos brain is a french documentarydrama about autism. Scream factory is a dvd, bluray and digital brand created to focus on notable and underrated horror, scifi, thriller films from the past that.