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The Brain That Wouldn't Die Overview:

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) was a Horror - Science Fiction Film directed by Joseph Green and produced by Rex Carlton.

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Killing Bill: Female Vengeance in THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962)

By Jennifer Garlen on Oct 25, 2021 From Virtual Virago

Long before Uma Thurman's relentless Bride swore to kill Bill in the Quentin Tarantino movies, Jan in the Pan killed her own treacherous Bill in the low-budget horror classic, The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). Despite its B-horror status and sleazy male gaze, The Brain That Wouldn't Die turns out ... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962)

By Jennifer Garlen on Nov 2, 2015 From Virtual Virago

A low-budget cult classic, The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962) offers all the twisted delights one could ask for in a science fiction horror movie of this type. It's sleazy, gruesome, and short, with a parade of scantily clad women and a mad surgeon hellbent on attaching his girlfriend's severed head... Read full article

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die Quotes:

Dr. Bill Cortner: Oh, come on now, Doris. Do I look like a maniac who goes around killing girls?
Dr. Cortner: The Superintendent had it out with me. He thinks it's you who's been stealing those limbs from the amputee operations.
Dr. Bill Cortner: So what if it is?
Dr. Bill Cortner: Is it a crime for science to jump ahead? By years?
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die Facts
"The Brain that Wouldn't Die" was the first movie watched by Michael J. Nelson after Joel Hodgson had left in the previous episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Filmed in 1959 but, due to various legal and censorship problems, not released until 1962.
Giving a lecture Boston University in November 2010, renowned title credit designer Kyle Cooper said that The Brain That Wouldn't Die was one of the inspirations for his opening credits' sequence for Se7en. Cooper told director David Fincher that he had watched The Brain That Wouldn't Die as a young boy and had waited and waited and waited and waited for the monster to appear. He felt that since in Fincher's film, John Doe did not appear until so late in the film, it was important to give a glimpse of him in the opening credits. So, although you never see Doe's face in the credits, his presence is felt.
Original plans were for last reel to be in color, with the doctor's head being cut off. Scenes were filmed with rats menacing the head.
The film was shot in 13 days.
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