Release, runtime and language

1959 · 91 mins · German

Directed by

Victor Trivas

Starring

Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Barbara Valentin, Osman Ragheb, Christiane Maybach, Dieter Eppler

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.