Sunday, November 24, 2024
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
From 1962, The Brain That Wouldn't Die is the original movie that was later remade as the Steve Martin comedy The Man with Two Brains. Wikipedia says: Dr. Bill Cortner is a successful scientist with a beautiful fiancée named Jan Compton. After a horrible car accident decapitates Jan, Dr. Cortner collects her severed head and rushes it to his laboratory, where he revives it and manages to keep it alive in a liquid-filled tray.
Dr. Cortner now decides to commit murder in order to obtain an attractive new body to attach to his fiancée's head. As he hunts for a suitable specimen, Jan begins to hatch some murder plans of her own. Filled with hatred for Cortner because he won't let her die, she communicates telepathically with a hideous mutant in the laboratory cell, telling it to kill the scientist.
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Did you ever see the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version? Friggin' hilarious.
I love MST3K! I don't think I saw this episode, but I'd sure enjoy it!
I also enjoyed the remake, The Man With Two Brains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo64fnJP1qw&pp=ygUhdGhlIGJyYWluIHRoYXQgd291bGRuJ3QgZGllIG1zdDNr
In The Man With Two Brains, the formula used to kill someone and preserve the brain was Windex. A few years later, in a book called Good News From Outer Space, the formula that, with electric shock, was used to resurrect dead people was equal parts Windex and Dr Pepper.
Two scenes in The Man With Two Brains really stuck with me:
1. "Tiny birds, pointy, pointy, anoint thy brow, anointy, nointy.
2. "No. I mustn't. I can't. I can't inject you with Windex." "Why not? What's it do?" "It causes your brain to die last." "Oh. Okay. Go ahead, I don't mind."
Also, whenever someone's name sounds even slightly like Hurfurhurhur I tell them about it. It's like how when I hurt myself in the same place twice I recall Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and say, /"That's never gonna heal up."/
Also this:
https://biblioklept.org/2024/11/24/salome-with-the-head-of-john-the-baptist-juan-de-flandes/
And Futurama.
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