Brain That Wouldn't Die, The - Goodnight Monsters

It's You That's Been Stealing Those Limbs!

Advantages: Quite creepy in a sleazy way, and tries its best to be bang up-to-date.
Disadvantages: It's a film about an angry head on a table, and that's it.

With a title like 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die,' you would probably expect Joseph Green and Rex Carlton's film to be a cheap, trashy, unoriginal and laughable sixties horror flick, when in fact these two screen legends managed to produce one of the more compelling, spine-chilling and scientifically cautionary masterworks of the decade. No, only joking. This is obviously just another fairly tedious and unspectacular R-rated sci-fi horror putting a contemporary spin on the Frankingstein plot, this time benefitting from the breakthroughs in plastic surgery, organ transplants and test tube babies that were hot topics in 1959. It's just a shame the film was delayed a few years to 1962 to prevent it losing its one real niche. The Frankingstein in this case is ambitious, smooth-talking young scientist Dr. Bill Cortner, played rather woodenly ...

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Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Remastered) (DVD)

Should have won an Academy award . . yuck yuck.

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: The lead thought he could out do William Shatner on the ham-o-meter.

downstairs to brag to his fiance he sees the dead assistant. Not even bother to check his pulse he just ignores him and heads over to his mumbling fiance: "Let the girl go. Please. Just let me die." First of all, what, does the Head have psychic abilities? HOW does she know he brought a girl back with him this time? HOW?????? While the doc is listening to the unending babble from his fiance the closet monster is making all kinds of a ruckus and so the doctor walks toward the door to check it and BOOM, the monster busts free and grabs the doc and chokes the life out of him. Then the monster grabs the unconscious body of the woman and leaves. The movie ends with a close up of the HEAD as she burns in the lab saying, "Told you you should have let me die" Then the movie ends and in the credits it says, "The Head that Wouldn't Die ...

Coyote98 31.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Remastered) (DVD)

The Vaccum that wouldn't die

Advantages: Very well built, indestructable
Disadvantages: heavy bit bulky

of the stairs on the way down, one flick of the switch and the cleaner sprung back into life and finished the job with only minor cosmetic marks to the body work a year or so ago i was driving a company car into the work shop at work one of the valeters was working on another car using a little henry when which i couldn't see needless to say i ran henry over (in quite a large 4x4) sending him flying across the workshop ripping the hose out of the rather startled valeters hand and this poor henry went crashing into the wall vacuuming the work shop floor as he went (that henry is still in use today) there seem to be no limits to the abuse this little vacuum will take my own henry has bee working hard now for over 5 years and in that time has never missed a beat last time i used him was round my inlaws to vacuum up a 8 foot by 4 foot window ...

Akett 11.02.2007 · Read full review
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