The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Likable drive-in sleaze-o-rama full of characters who are complete creeps and with some grisly, blood-all-over-the-place violence. The dialogue scenes can drone, but this gets good when director Joseph Green moves on to the sci-fi/horror nitty gritty. A cocky mad scientist uses an experimental serum to keep his wife’s severed head alive (and somehow speaking and breathing) after she gets burned up in a car accident. His next step is to get her a body, which he does by, of course, hitting the strip clubs and local swimsuit competitions and sometimes by just checking out asses brain-that-wouldnt-dieon the street until he settles on one that he likes. Meanwhile back at the lab, his weirdo serum has a side effect of driving his wife—she’s just a head on a pan, lookin’ around at test tubes and beakers all day—dangerously insane.

This has blood and hot chicks and it all makes no sense whatsoever. My kinda movie.

Shot in thirteen days in 1959, but not released until 1962 when American-International double-billed it with Invasion of the Star Creatures.