The picture is bright and sharp, redeeming the honor of cameraman steven hajnal, whose work is just fine. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title the black door but was not theatrically released until may 3, 1962, when it was released under its new title as a double feature. Anyway, i think what i like most about this movie is its seriousness. Although splattered with goofy flaws and overthetop performances and producing plenty of chuckles, the film probes primitive fears that. This doublebill played at seattles paramount theater, a prestigious downtown movie palace. The question is not choosing one and eliminating the other, but how much of each is necessary for progress. A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his. It is a sleazy story about a man obsessed with his aptitude in medical science who wishes to fuse together his dead girlfriends head with the perfect body, thereby creating the perfect woman for a man with the best of both body and soul. If you like the old ec horror comics, youll love this film as it has that evil bastard gets his selfinflicted scifi come uppance vibe, complete with corny comic book dialogue about pushing back the boundaries of the unknown or.
The film opened in seattle in september of 1962, as the theatrical cofeature with roger cormans tales of terror. Se7en 1995 giving a lecture at boston university in november 2010, renowned title credit designer kyle cooper said that this film was one of the inspirations for his opening credits sequence for se7en aka seven. Resuscitated by elviras box of horror classics series and mystery science theater 3000, the brains noname cast and lowbudget schlock are not as corny as expected. Rounding things out is a still gallery and the film s original theatrical trailer. Then his 1st thought it to take her head and keep the brain alive by machinery. Playboy surgeon becomes obsessed with finding a body to attach to his favourite head after a road accident. The documentary crosses authentic autistic stories with a fiction story about the life. That complete lack of humor makes it all the more ridiculous. In her defense, she was hideously scarred after a man attacked her. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. At least, according to doris, the manhating fashion model cortner encounters near the end of the film. Cooper told director david fincher that he had watched brain as a young boy and had waited and waited and waited and waited for the monster to appear. There ends up being the assumption that the films featured on the show are the worst of the worst, but thats not always the case. But cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
Its a film that doesnt quite live up to the power of. I remember it being a very different monster film from the usual fare, and i was very young, so it seemed like a bad dream. His rare leaps into theatrical film include pretty boy floyd 1960, house of women 1962, p. A mad scientist revives the head of his decapitated fiancee in this satirical remake of.
Im giving the movie itself 3 stars and the release 5 stars for an average of 4 stars. I love mystery science theater 3000, but sometimes it ends up doing a disservice to the movie viewing public. The hugos brain is a french documentarydrama about autism. Keeping comptons head alive in his lab, cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. I guess it has been an issue then and it will probably remain so for the rest of our existence. Le cerveau qui voulait pas mourir film complet vf 1962. Le cerveau qui voulait pas mourir film complet vf 1962 gougouneprod frederic romain. This film explores the ever important debate between science and ethics.
Sadly, this brainless movie was her only well known film. And cortner is just interested in her body, albeit more literally than she suspects and i must scream. Id like to give it at least 4 12 stars due to the excellent release. Brain pretty much ended the career of costar leith, however, and the actress made a handful of tv appearances before retiring in.
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