Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

Episode 70: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!

A variation on the Frankenstein theme with a surgeon experimenting with limb and organ transplantation without rejection. He gets the chance to really put his technique to the test when his fiance is decapitated in a car crash. Keeping her head alive artificially, he begins the search to find her a new body, Even if he has to harvest one! Seeing the extreme measures that he is going through to keep her alive and restore her, the resentful Jan forges a alliance with a hideous mutant John keeps locked in the closet. Another result of his experiments.

Famous from late night television showing, drive-ins and of course Mystery Science Theater 3000, this film became a cult classic and was the inspiration for Frank Henelotter’s “Frankenhooker”.  It was notable, even though it was black and white, for being quite bloody for an early 60′s film