No matter how ridiculous the story, how silly the script, how inept the acting or how dire the special effects, there is always something in classic cult movies that keeps people coming back for more. In "The Brain that Wouldn't Die", it's the iconic image of Jan's head, sitting in a pan, framed by equipment that looks like it was taken from a high school chem lab. Those scenes, the moody music, and the quick cut to the pictures of cats ("Meow") when the two B-girls are fighting, are enough guarantee this movie multiple viewings. Jason Evers is the woodenly scurrilous mad doctor and the lovely Virginia Leith is Jan (both corporeally complete and 'in caput'). Much of the movie is a leering search for a suitable (i.e. stacked) replacement body - as Donna says: "Your eyes are going to have a field day". You could also have a post-feminist field day analysing this movie: a women, left with only her mind, is muzzled by a man fixated on her body when she attempts to assume a dominant role in their relationship and when, by showing solidarity with the man's previous victim, she gains the upper hand, she is punished by that classic misogynic death: being burned alive. The movie is a 6 to anyone who would watch beyond the opening credits.

This is not a good at all. It is awful. It is not scary. It is badly written. It is also badly acted. The ending is awful. It is one of the worst horror movie of all time. 4.1 is not a good ratting. But this is such a bad movie that 4.1 is overrating it. I give this 1 out 10. 4.1 doe not real show just how bad this movie is. See tales of Frankenstein. Do not see this movie. This is one of the worst horror movie ever. It is very stupid. There are movie older then this that way scarier so age is no excuse. Frankenstein (1931) is way scarier then this. Do not see this movie. It is awful. I need more lines and I am running out of thing to say.

An alcoholic has his bottle. A dope addict has his needle. A sex addict has his porn. A Sci-fi schlock addict has this movie! I could sit around in a room filled with Sci-fi Junkies all day and comment on this laughable cranium exploitation film. Upon viewing this inverted twisted tale of a Mad Doctor Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) who drives like a lunatic on dangerous curvy roads crashes and decapitates his fiance's Jan's head. Tries to pull Jan's body from the burning wreckage but salvages the head as he limps off toward his weekend getaway home with head wrapped in a rag. Met by his stuffy arrogant assistant Kurt who was a surgeon at one time but lost his arm in an accident and replaced with a deformed one courtesy of Dr. Bill. Kurt is distraught about their failed experiment in the closet, some beastly thing locked in a closet with a little opening for feeding time. Kurt is worried that the monstrosity will eventually break out. No time to re enforce that door. First things first, keep the head alive. There they go Bill and Kurt with tubes, beakers and bandages and yes the infamous catch pan to bring this all together. When completed there she is in all her glory . Head wrapped in bandages supported up-right with tubes pumping Ragu sauce through her head and collecting in the pan she rests in. Jan (Virginia Leith) speaks with a raspy voice as the good Doctor must have saved her vocal cords for this movie. Now our good Doctor has to go scour the streets looking for a body to re-attach on his incomplete Jan. Meanwhile Kurt has to babysit Jan and Monster in the closet. Will our two deformities behave? Will Dr. Bill find a body suitable for framing? Let me take this all in... Lets recap. Head in a lasagna pan. Cat fighting between strippers. A cone headed monster in the closet. Thank goodness Jan's nose doesn't get itchy. Second favorite scene in this movie is when Jan gets her mouth taped shut by Dr. Bill. For my favorite scene? Well you'll have to watch this schlock-fest by yourself and rinse your pan thoroughly.

Okay, so this movie has all the hallmarks of "B" scifi from the 1960s and 1950s. Cheap sets, bad acting, utterly laughable dialog ("I'll handle the brain area").In spite of all these things, the movie is underpinned by a great story line, no matter how poorly executed. So just like the classic 1960s Star Trek TV series (also plagued by cheap sets and bad acting), remember... STORY FIRST.And that saves it.The moral conundrum of when it is okay to tamper, experiment or try to save human life. The inner struggle that a doctor or surgeon must wrestle with between only doing what *should* be done to save people, vs veering over the line and trying to "improve" or "reconstruct" them. The clash between trying everything possible to save a person's life vs deciding that it is in their best interests to let them die (Is it ever? Can they make that decision if they are dying?) I'm the first to admit that I enjoy this film largely for its laughability, its sleazy dialog and background music, the tawdry story line of a surgeon trying to save his fiancée's head by not just saving her, but trying to "trade up" and graft her head onto a stripper's body. But unlike a lot of other schlocky horror/scifi movies, this one has a nugget of something better.