Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The (1962)

Dr. Cortner (Herb Evers) has been unsuccessfully experimenting with transplant surgery, as evidenced by the hideous mutilation of his lab assistant. When Cortner’s fiancee is decapitated in a car accident, he saves her head and rushes it back to his lab. He keeps the head alive with a secret serum that he has developed for his freakish experiments. Through the electrodes and wires, Jan (Virginia Leith) conveys her desire to "please, let me die" in chilling whispers, but the good doctor has better plans. He prowls strip joints for a body to match the head of his girlfriend. She, meanwhile, develops a psychic connection to a horrifying monster who lives in the closet. The mutant giant and Jan plot a revenge so terrible that it raises the bar on cinematic gore for its time. Lurid and sleazy in the best possible way, this is a gloriously gory shocker that creeps under your skin as it moves in for the final kill. This uncut edition restores all the bloody footage previously edited out for T.V.

1962, B&W, 82 minutes