The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) | Directed by Joseph Green - Full Movie

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. 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 with Invasion of the Star Creatures.

The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means to keep human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, and also keeps a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet.

The specific plot device of a mad doctor who discovers a way to keep a human head alive had been used in fiction earlier (such as Professor Dowell's Head from 1925), as well as other variants on this theme.

Directed by: Joseph Green
Written by: Rex Carlton, Joseph Green
Produced by: Rex Carlton, Mort Landberg
Starring: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel
Cinematography: Stephen Hajnal
Edited by: Leonard Anderson, Marc Anderson
Music by: Abe Baker, Tony Restaino
Production company: Sterling Productions
Distributed by: American International Pictures
Release date: May 3, 1962
Running time: 82 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $62,000 (estimated)