The latest release in the Alpha DVD Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia collection is a tried-and-true classic of gruesome proportions: The Brain That Wouldn't Die. That it's adorned by Alan Landron's sensational artwork makes it all the more aesthetically brain-tingling.
Directed by Joseph Green and co-scripted by Green and Rex Carlton, Brain deserves its "misunderstood" label, though it's misunderstood primarily by snobs and not its adoring, macabre-cinema connoisseurs. Brain is, in truth, a masterpiece of impetuous experimentation, known for its sentimental depiction of keeping a severed head alive (and moreover, cognitive), but also for its sexploitation and splatter elements.
The movie stars Jason Evers as Dr. Bill Cortner and Virginia Leith as Jan Compton, aka "Jan in the Pan", as fans have come to coin her. After a horrific, auto accident, the doc grabs Jan's head and well, it's not hard to figure out the rest. Also, to increase the weirdness, there's a creepy colossus kept in a closet, portrayed by the towering Eddie Carmel. (In addition, Playmate Marilyn Hanold, of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, appears along the way, among other curvaceous cuties, including smokin'-hot model, Adele Lamont.) Rank this one up there with such eye-catching, freakish delights as The Head, The Frozen Dead and Re-Animator.
And in sticking to tradition, the charismatic Mr. Lobo offers a spellbinding (blood-o-vision) wraparound, accompanied by wacky, related additives, which keep the thematic strand streaming strong.
But that's not all! As an extra-special treat, there's Mr. Lobo's gratifying interview with the legendary Bruce Campbell and a lead-in Q & A for Campbell's Man with the Screaming Brain. Wow!
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