Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
Not for warmth, comfort or uplift.
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GoodWatch score 63February 25, 1962 · 1 h 22 min · NR
The Needless, Mad Doctor, Impairment Shot +9
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In the United States, The Brain That Wouldn't Die streams on Prime, fuboTV, MGM+, Philo, and Screambox, and it is free with ads on Plex, The Roku, Hoopla, FlixHouse, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Public Domain Movies, Fawesome, Cineverse, Tubi TV, and Amazon MX Player. You can rent or buy it from FlixFling. It also streams in 137 other countries.
Reviews are weak, with a GoodWatch score of 41 (IMDb 4.6).
Yes, it's frightening: scares are rated 8 of 10, and some images are gruesome (grotesque 9 of 10).
Probably not: the title analysis rates it 8 of 10 for bleakness and 5 for melancholy, against 1 for hopefulness.
TV Tropes lists 54 tropes for it, including The Needless, Mad Doctor, and Impairment Shot.
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