Brain
That Wouldn't Die, The (1963)
Alive...
without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!
It's madness, not science!
Dr. Bill
Cortner is a surgeon like his father. He is obsessed with
performing surgical transplants and continues to experiment
with amputated limbs he steals from the local hospital. While
driving to his secret mountain laboratory to tend to an emergency,
Cortner's reckless driving causes an accident and his car
careens off the road, killing his fiancée Jan. Not
to be discouraged, he goes into the burning wreckage and wraps
the decapitated head of his fiancée in his jacket and
tries to keep it alive long enough to find a suitable body
to re-attach it to. Bill only has 48-50 hours to come up with
a new body.
The doctor
stalks women and searches for a new body at the local strip
club and "body beautiful" contests. He finally fines
the perfect body for his fiancée Jan, but his subject
has a scarred face. He tells the young woman that he can fix
her looks with plastic surgery and convinces her to go back
to the lab.
Meanwhile,
Jan's decapitated head stays alive in a tray in the basement
laboratory and has developed telepathy. Later silenced by
a strip of duct tape over her mouth as the laboratory burns.
She telepathically communicates with something locked away
in the laboratory closet, plotting her revenge on Bill for
not letting her die in peace.
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