The Head1959
“The Body is Gone... But The Head Lives On!”
Directed by Victor Trivas
The premise
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
Horror Vault's take
In this West German sci-fi horror curiosity, a brilliant scientist's life-extending serum falls into the hands of his unhinged assistant, with ghastly consequences. The assistant's ambitions reach a fever pitch as he pursues a grotesque surgical goal, keeping an unwilling mind captive to serve his obsession. Equal parts pulpy exploitation and gothic melodrama, the film wallows in the moral void left when science sheds its conscience entirely.
Content: Decapitation Themes, Surgical Horror Imagery, Depictions Of Disfigurement, Suicide Reference
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