Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Head (1959)

Neat German Sci-Fi Horror 

This movie is not all that bad. It's a lot like watching an old TV show or episode rather than something from off the big screen but a pretty good show it is. The atmosphere of this film is very nice if you Gothic Sci-Fi (from fog to weird looking medical instruments).

Russia has created device that keeps a dog's head alive even though the body is gone. That technology has reached other scientists but one scientist wants to use this idea on humans and he does. He goes further than just a living head on a table, because he puts the head of his female hunchback assistant on the body of a stripper, she can now stand and walk as the rest of us but she does want it this way (from the body of another woman).

I've read that The Head is a spin on Donovan's Brain and it seems both films have influenced or spawned The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

7/10


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