Excellent Sci-Fi Horror
I forgot just how good this film was until I watched it again recently - it really is a good work of science fiction horror. A very creepy and highly underrated movie.
The movie was due to be released in 1959 but there was some legal and censoring issues. The movie was finally released in 1962. What is interesting is in the beginning of the film where Dr. Bill Cortner stated that "one day there will be limb and organ transplants". The first real life successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant in 1954 and the second successful was also a kidney transplant in 1962.
In real life: The world’s first full face transplant took place in Spain 2010.
One can also look up "Head Transplant" and find out there were successful head transplants in real life successfully performed using dogs, monkeys and rats but NO human head (that is known) - all this during the 1950s.
LOOK UP the 2015 CNN article: "Are human head transplants coming soon?"
and the Wall Street Journal's 2015 article: "Surgery’s Far Frontier: Head Transplants" -- then you will see just how realistic this film is - it was ahead of it's time like "Frankenstein".
With all this said, the film "The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)" is a bit more realistic! To me, Dr. Bill Cortner is "mad" because he was more than willing to kill a woman for her body just to put the head of his fianceé on another woman's body. He has no care at all for life of his fellow humans - he only cares about his scientific experiments no matter how sinister they become.
This is a great late night film! A great film to watch for horror and science fiction fans alike!
9/10
The movie was due to be released in 1959 but there was some legal and censoring issues. The movie was finally released in 1962. What is interesting is in the beginning of the film where Dr. Bill Cortner stated that "one day there will be limb and organ transplants". The first real life successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant in 1954 and the second successful was also a kidney transplant in 1962.
In real life: The world’s first full face transplant took place in Spain 2010.
One can also look up "Head Transplant" and find out there were successful head transplants in real life successfully performed using dogs, monkeys and rats but NO human head (that is known) - all this during the 1950s.
LOOK UP the 2015 CNN article: "Are human head transplants coming soon?"
and the Wall Street Journal's 2015 article: "Surgery’s Far Frontier: Head Transplants" -- then you will see just how realistic this film is - it was ahead of it's time like "Frankenstein".
With all this said, the film "The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)" is a bit more realistic! To me, Dr. Bill Cortner is "mad" because he was more than willing to kill a woman for her body just to put the head of his fianceé on another woman's body. He has no care at all for life of his fellow humans - he only cares about his scientific experiments no matter how sinister they become.
This is a great late night film! A great film to watch for horror and science fiction fans alike!
9/10
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