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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962 / Directed by Joseph Green / 82 minutes
The film / Synopsis

After a car crash decapitates his fiancée, a mad surgeon keeps her head alive in a tray while he searches for a suitable body to transplant it onto, against her increasingly vocal objections.

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