The Head ~ 1959 -BW

QUICKIE: The psycho Dr. builds a Miss Frankenstein monster, then gets mad that she's not all: "Oh, you put my head on a whore's body, Yay! kissey kissey"

PLOT: (A dubbed German film.) A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.

SUMMARY: HAHA! The psycho Dr is at it again! Chopping up people parts and reassembling them to make monsters "in the name of science!" I love these kinds of movies, even if they are so ridiculous. Here, the psycho Dr. who originally did the successful head/body transplant on a dog is soon going to die from heart failure. He assembles a team of top notch psycho Dr.s and instructs them to transplant a heart from a stolen corpse into him. The surgery goes badly and all that is left to do is keep the DRs decapitated head alive instead. Just like he did to the dog.

At this point the main psycho DR. begins killing various people. He also does a "test run" head transplant on the hunchbacked nurse, turning her into a sexy bombshell. So the Dr. rapes the sex bomb (I think-you can't tell with some of these movies), and since her head was previously a nun, you can imagine the spiritual crisis she's going through. She also gets involved the body's old boyfriend who she reveals the whole horrid story of the surgery to. The jealous Dr. trys to kill the new guy who then brings the police into the whole matter. It ends with a big dramatic shoot-out in the burning building. A very good film.

Creature Double Feature: Watch The Brain That Wouldn't Die ~1962 -BW first! It's a similar story to this movie, only the head is kept in a pan through the whole film and not attached to a body.