The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
After a car crash kills his fiancée, a brilliant and reckless surgeon keeps her severed head alive in his laboratory while he searches for a new body for her. But the head has plans of its own, and something is locked behind the laboratory door. A cult independent horror film, later featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Public domain · Source: Internet Archive
How it was made
Shot independently in 1959 under the title The Black Door, and picked up for release by American International Pictures in 1962.
- Live action
Filmed with a camera, with actors and real locations.
- Independent production
Made outside the major studio system.
Produced by Rex Carlton Productions.
Credits
- Director
- Joseph Green
- Producer
- Rex Carlton
- Screenplay
- Joseph Green
- Original story
- Rex Carlton, Joseph Green
- Associate producer
- Mort Landberg
- Director of photography
- Stephen Hajnal
- Film editors
- Leonard Anderson, Marc Anderson
- Theme music
- “The Web” by Abe Baker and Tony Restaino, by permission of Laurel Records
- Distributor
- American International Pictures
- Cast
- Herb Evers (Dr. Bill Cortner), Virginia Leith (Jan Compton), Leslie Daniel (Kurt), Adele Lamont, Bonnie Sharie, Paula Maurice, Marilyn Hanold, Bruce Brighton, Arny Freeman, Fred Martin, Lola Mason, Doris Brent, Bruce Kerr, Audrey Devereau, Eddie Carmel
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