The Head
Year: 1959
Runtime: 91 mins
Language: German
Director: Victor Trivas
A brilliant scientist creates a serum that can keep a severed head alive, first demonstrated on a dog’s head. When the scientist later suffers a fatal heart attack, his unhinged assistant decapitates him, uses the serum to sustain the doctor’s head, and forces it to assist in a grotesque experiment to graft a new body onto his hunchbacked nurse assistant.
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