Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

gporcelli-41235 I want to be honest with this one. I was attracted by the movie's concept (it's a sort a romantic drama with some sci-fi horror features). "The brain that wouldn't die" (or "The head that wouldn't die"?) tells the story of a brilliant mad doctor which desperately tries to save his girlfriend's life after she looses her head during a car incident. The doctor keeps his girlfirend's head alive witha bizzare machine and starts his quest to find a new body for her. But his girlfriend doesn't want to allow him to do so since the doctor has to kill a girl in ordre to acquire a new body for her. The first 30 minutes are good, I mean, the script stands up pretty well then it becomes trashy. After 30 minutes the movie becomes ridicolous, awkwardly directed and unintentionally funny. It's such a shame since the movie could turn in a really good one. It's a missed opportunity. Thankfully there's another movie "Eyes without a face" which shares some of "The brain that wouldn't die" good elements but without the trash. I think this movie deserves a remake or a second chance because I'm sure it has the potential for a great horror.Final verdict 5/10 (mediocre)The concept was good, some elements were good, the first 30 minutes are good. "The brain that wouldn't die" is a missed opportunity. I think you have to watch it without too many expectations in order to enjoy it.

Mark I remember seeing this as a kid and was fascinated by the disembodied head. I don't really think I was very scared, but for some reason, even 50 years later, I remember almost every scene with the head. There are so many great and cheesy aspects to this movie. The dialog is just hilarious, along with the soundtrack, basically one reoccurring 1950's porn music loop during the "sexy scenes." The lustful close-ups" ... it just goes on and on with the fun.Of course, there is the climactic ending scene, where the movie makers seem to have run out of film stock, so it ends extremely fast. Kind of like a "well, that's it" moment.Best viewed with friends a bit on the loaded side I believe.

Nigel P This is a cheap and cheerful horror entry from 1962 that could easily have been made twenty years earlier, where huge swathes of conversational plot contrivances are passed between static characters in virtually blank sets. With echoes of Frankenstein, this story alerts us to the experiments of accomplished Doctor Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) who may or may not have been stealing amputated limbs from the hospital in which he works, to further his mysterious efforts. When his fiancé appears and pours herself all over him (still in the same scant hospital set) and says "There is nothing that can keep us apart," you hope against hope that nothing disastrous will befall the young couple.Yet, the plot is cruel, and pretty soon an appalling and awkwardly (cheaply) staged car crash occurs that tragically separates Jan's head from the rest of her. Worry not, for love conquers all and soon, her bandage wrapped head, fully made-up you understand, is brought back to life while Doctor Bill finds her another body.My tone is glib, of course. And while I am a nobody who will never amount to anything, the people behind this film have recorded something that will live on on celluloid – however, the tone here is never entirely serious. Although it is played straight – possibly too straight – and the imagery is occasionally gruesome (indeed, this was completed in 1959 but claims of its 'tastelessness' delayed its release for three years), there is a drive-in Saturday afternoon, tongue-in-cheek quality to this designed, it seems to me, to make teenagers groan and roll their eyes whilst enjoying every earnest moment.

CallEmLike ICem Ironically, brain activity is what you feel dropping the most as you watch "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." The plot, if anyone would dare call it that, has a doctor losing his fiancée in a car accident - well, most of her anyway. He manages to keep her severed head alive, even though, obviously, this limits her professional, family-planning, and dancing options rather harshly.From this sound premise, things proceed logically.Doc then searches for a female body that pleases him to transplant his fiancee's head onto. One ethical foul ball that is skimmed over way too quickly - all these bodies are still attached to live people.As either a tribute to voyeurism or a need to pad things out, the doc spends way more time looking over numerous options than seems really necessary. He also spends more time trying to look cool smoking cigarettes than seems needed, but by then such a point seems kind of small. After passing on several voluptuous types who saunter around slowly while smoky jazz music plays, he picks a small brunette with a huge chip on her shoulder, another in a long series of points that don't seem to make much sense.The dialogue seems to have been written by someone very distracted. I would guess the writer owed rent, and the entire time he wrote this his landlord was banging on the door, yelling loudly.Almost all the acting is just as bad, so there is a special kind of synthesis there.The fun and games of watching a low-grade turkey come to a screeching halt when a monster in the basement dismembers the doc's helper, who smears his dying blood all over the walls in what seems like a special effort to make the audience feel depressed. It succeeds. When are these mad doctors going to figure things out - you can't keep your severed-head prisoner close to the monster you keep locked up? Egged on by the woman whose wardrobe needs have been reduced to nothing but hats, the monster breaks out and kills the doc, probably mistaking him for the movie's author.