15 Guilty Pleasure Horror Films To Watch This Halloween

3. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wx3Ryjcmtk Herb Evers, who later became Jason Evers and refused to discuss the film up until his death in 2005, is Dr Bill Cortner, a surgeon so gifted he literally brings a patient back from the dead in the opening scene. He€™s also a little loose in his shoes and steals body parts from the operating theatre for the €˜research€™ he and his deformed assistant have been conducting at their rural retreat. We learn the nature of that work when his fiancée Jan (Virginia Leith) is decapitated in an auto wreck and Evers, always the devoted suitor, keeps the head alive (and talking) until it can be grafted onto a new body. Think about it. If you woke up as a disembodied head, and instead of ending your misery your other half went to a titty bar to find a replacement body, wouldn€™t that add some grit to your relationship? So Jan starts to go, you know, a bit daffy. A little, yes, funny in the head. And she starts plotting revenge, but what€™s she gonna do? Nag him to death? Fortunately, one of the doc€™s failed experiments is locked up in the closet, so when Evers returns home with a €˜figure model€™ on his arm, the creature breaks loose and begins throttling him while Jan shrieks maniacally in her pan.