10 Horror Films You Constantly Have To Defend Loving

6. The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

A staple of All Time Worst movie lists, The Thing With Two Heads might live up (or down) to its reputation if it pretended to be anything other than a deliberately goofy exploitation film, but its ability to amuse and entertain places it several rungs above, say, Blackenstein, The Black Frankenstein. Viewers of the previous year€™s The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant must have experienced déjà vu all over again as they watched Ray Milland€™s terminally-ill surgeon attempt to cheat death by having his head grafted onto a healthy body, his confidence stemming from the two-headed gorilla (played by Rick Baker) he keeps caged in his basement, a previous recipient of spare-head surgery. When Baker escapes and drags his knuckles around town in search of bananas, Milland, unfazed by this bit of monkey business, declares the operation a success and moves forward, despite an understandable lack of volunteers. When his deteriorating condition necessitates that the first willing donor be used, Milland regains consciousness to find himself attached to the considerably beefier shoulders of former Los Angeles Rams star Roosevelt €˜Rosey€™ Grier. A wrongly convicted man on Death Row, Grier just wants to buy some time so he can prove his innocence, while an unimpressed Milland (€œIs this some sort of joke?€) tries to arrange another check-up from the neck-up.