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the audience applauded

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die is one of the first American movies to feature gory violence. A decapitated head, severed arm, a throat is ripped out...It's one of those movies that contributed to the fall of American horror movies, along with Blood Feast and the idiotic zombie genre. Something tells me the director originally wanted to make a porn movie, but at the last minute changed his mind and decided to give horror a try instead. The main character/villain of the movie spends most his time looking at strippers, underwear models etc. It's incredibly perverted, and a waste of time.This is one of the worst movies in the Horror Classics (50 Movie Pack) DVD from Treeline Films. Skip this disgusting trash and read a good book instead.

and this one is even below Z if there were more letters in the English alphabet that i could use!OK, agreed the story is certainly good, maybe very good and Virginia Leith is such a beaut' indeed ... the cast acceptable but the acting terrible!to be fair though, either the copy i saw was edited and missed some small yet important parts, or if it was the whole movie in its entirety, then it's lacking a lot in the plot as well as in the execution of that plot ...maybe since the budget was too low or something but this could have been a much better movie even with that low budget if made and acted in a more proper way ...fine for seeing once to see a little failed piece of cinema history but not more than that ... i'd be certainly interested in watching the new version of the same story that's reportedly a comedy and due coming out in 2018 though ...'til then ...

Ironically, brain activity is what you feel dropping the most as you watch "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." The plot, if anyone would dare call it that, has a doctor losing his fiancée in a car accident - well, most of her anyway. He manages to keep her severed head alive, even though, obviously, this limits her professional, family-planning, and dancing options rather harshly.From this sound premise, things proceed logically.Doc then searches for a female body that pleases him to transplant his fiancee's head onto. One ethical foul ball that is skimmed over way too quickly - all these bodies are still attached to live people.As either a tribute to voyeurism or a need to pad things out, the doc spends way more time looking over numerous options than seems really necessary. He also spends more time trying to look cool smoking cigarettes than seems needed, but by then such a point seems kind of small. After passing on several voluptuous types who saunter around slowly while smoky jazz music plays, he picks a small brunette with a huge chip on her shoulder, another in a long series of points that don't seem to make much sense.The dialogue seems to have been written by someone very distracted. I would guess the writer owed rent, and the entire time he wrote this his landlord was banging on the door, yelling loudly.Almost all the acting is just as bad, so there is a special kind of synthesis there.The fun and games of watching a low-grade turkey come to a screeching halt when a monster in the basement dismembers the doc's helper, who smears his dying blood all over the walls in what seems like a special effort to make the audience feel depressed. It succeeds. When are these mad doctors going to figure things out - you can't keep your severed-head prisoner close to the monster you keep locked up? Egged on by the woman whose wardrobe needs have been reduced to nothing but hats, the monster breaks out and kills the doc, probably mistaking him for the movie's author.

I was surprised at how many times this movie was featured on shows, not just MST3K. Looking here on the IMDb, this was actually the title of a LOT of TV shows that make fun of bad movies. To be honest, this wasn't awful. Yeah, it is still technically bad. The worst parts were probably at the end where everything just fell apart. What's interesting is that there are some genuinely good moments in this. I actually like some of the scenes with the woman's head. Her dialogue isn't that bad.It still meanders into pointless scenes, especially with the woman whom the scientist eventually captures. It is a pretty cheap effect. I mean, when first seeing a preview of this, I didn't even know this woman was just a head! It just looked like someone sticking her head through a table! Stuff like "The Beast Of Yucca Flats" is infinitely worse. This is still nothing to care for, at least not without it being made fun of. **