The Head
by Eric Fogel
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Actor: Dick Rodstein, Eric Fogel, Jason Candler, Maia DanzigerDirector: Eric Fogel
Brand: Alpha Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Platform: DOS
Studio: Alpha Video
Movie Reviews of The Head
Movie Review: The strange tale of Doctor Ooooood
Summary: 5 Stars
Well folks, this is certainly a must see. This is not your typical campy 1950's Sci-Fi/Horror. It's very gothic and dark. Not terrifying, but more hypnotizing. Even the slow parts have a surrealism that you can't turn away from.
Dr. Ood should have gone down as one of the great cinema mad scientists. His perfectly triangular eyebrows just add to his sinister demure. His mission in life it seems is to become a great scientist, but needs to follow in the footsteps of another who has surpassed his own results. He ultimatly decapitates the greater scientist, but keeps his head alive to learn his many secrets. One of them is to save a beautiful woman from disfigurement. She is a nurse who was an assistant to the professor's assistant (did you follow that?)
Well the woman is a looker to begin with, but when she receives the body of a stripper, whew! Lock up the sailors indeed. But he is insanely jealous of her. He doesn't see her as a person, but as his property, his creation. She runs and seeks help from the stripper's former lover of all people. He is an artist, and for all his trouble he gets his house set on fire and is arrested. But in the end I'm sure he hooked up with the beautiful nurse.
And what of Dr. Oog? Well aside from being a mad scientist, he's also quite the firebug. He sets two fires in this film. The second one was to destroy the evidence of the living head. But the cops are chasing him through the building and poor Dr. Oog leaps to his death in an Oscar worthy performance.
If your looking for another campy "Brain that Wouldn't Die" clone, this is not it. A serious movie of this genre from the 50's is a rare treat indeed.
Summary of The Head
Platform: DVD MOVIE Publisher: ALPHA VIDEO Packaging: DVD STYLE BOX A scientist's procedure for keeping body parts functioning is turned against him when a demented assistant decapitates him and keeps his head alive in the laboratory. The scientist's brain is preserved in order to assist in a far more demonic experiment - the attachment of his hunchbacked nurse's head to the body of a voluptuous stripper. Descending into the world of The Head is a similar experience to that of a nightmare where the landscape is composed of dead trees dark passageways and sinister operating rooms populated by the extremes of society - hunchbacks strippers and madmen. When the scientist reveals his gruesome masterpiece - the dismembered head kept alive by wires machines and "Serum Z" - silent transfixed horror is the only possible reaction. The mysterious atmosphere is enhanced by stark imposing sets designed by Herman Warm (known best for his work on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and a haunting gothic music score.Starring: Horst FrankDirected by: Victor TrivasWritten by: Victor TrivasMusic by: Willy Maltes & Jacque Lasry DVD Details: Effects Theo Nischwitz Sets Herman Warm And Bruno MondenRun Time: 92 minutesNumber of Discs: 1Originally Released in 1959Black & WhiteNo region encoding; For global distribution.Similar DVD Movies
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