1. omnibrain
  2. The Brain That Wouldn't Die in the public domain

The Brain That Wouldn't Die in the public domain

By omnibrain on June 30, 2007.

i-6ade589941eb55da0029814bd3c18135-brainthatwouldntdie.jpgThanks to Vaughan over at Mind Hacks we've discovered that the great movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die is now in the public domain :) You can watch it below the fold or even download it in full right here or here. This movie is a wonderful, wonderful movie! ... ok, really, I've never seen it nor do I think I'll take the time to watch it unless I'm really bored. But you should! Let us know how it is. It is after all about brains!

Here's the plot summary from imdb:

After a car crash, a man keeps his wife's head alive in his laboratory. As if this weren't enough, an evil beast pounds and screams from a locked room adjacent to the lab.

Description written by Sam Volchenboum: The unethical surgeon Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) is developing a technique of transplantation of organs and members using a serum against rejection. When he has a car accident with his girlfriend Jan Compton (Virginia Leith), he saves her head only, and tries to find a woman with a beautiful body to transplant Jan's head against her will.

Description written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Brilliant but borderline psychotic surgeon does secretive, experimental work with limb transplants and tissue rejection drugs, much to the chagrin of his surgeon-father. When he crashes his car and his fiancee is decapitated, his research - far from complete - is put to the test. His focus then becomes finding an appropriate donor body to make his fiancee whole, while the current and failed experiments in his basement laboratory grow restless.


Tags
Art
neuroscience
Video

More like this

HIV Organ Policy Equity Act
When someone is dying, you treat what is killing them first. This might seem obvious, but its not-- People wondered 'If we can cure people of HIV with bone marrow transplants, then why dont we give everyone bone marrow transplants??' We can only give HIV+ people with blood cancers that are killing…
What's wrong with Steve Jobs: Yes, Jobs did have a liver transplant, but was it for metastatic insulinoma?
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the reason for Apple CEO Steve Job's five month medical leave of absence from Apple is that he needed a liver transplant, which, according to the story, he underwent a couple of months ago in Memphis. In my discussion, I assumed, for the most…
Growing a new heart in culture on an old scaffold
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have created new beating hearts in culture using a technique called decellularization: Decellularization is the process of removing all of the cells from an organ -- in this case an animal cadaver heart -- leaving only the extracellular matrix, the…
Human-Animal Hybrids Here to Murder Us in Our Sheep...Er, Sleep
Remember Bush's speech last year where he denounced "human-animal hybrids"? Well, I don't know about you, but I about fell off the couch laughing. But now it looks like his worst fear has come to pass: a chimeric sheep with 15% human cells, engineered with the hope of animal organs one day being…

Actually, it's been in the public domain for decades -- since the early '70s at least. It's just now been digitized and put online.

It's loosely adapted from/inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator, although for some reason this movie (like Corman's The Haunted Castle) never shows up on lists of Lovecraft film adaptations.

I haven't seen this in a while; I may need to re-watch it again soon since there's been all this chatter about it. As I recall, it's one of the goriest movies of its time. They sure went through a lot of Bosco in the movie's climax.