Written and directed by Herbert J. Leder (who also wrote and directed the Roddy McDowall, golem gem, It!, in addition to scripting the nightmarish Fiend Without a Face), The Frozen Dead plays rather like The Brain That Wouldn't Die, if only filtered through Hammer Studios. It also holds traces of The Head and They Saved Hitler's Brain and foreshadows such "misunderstood," war-torn nail-biters as Shock Waves, Dead Snow, Outpost, Overlord and Frankenstein's Army.
Hollywood icon Dana (Curse/Night of the Demon) Andrews leads The Frozen Dead, portraying scientist Dr. Norberg, who works undercover in London, hoping to impress fellow, on-the-lam Nazis as he thaws frozen, Third Reich soldiers to attain world dominance. However, when the revived behave like witless zombies, he requests a live brain to study, so that he may perfect his morbid ambition.
This results in the decapitation of a young woman named Elsa (Kathleen Breck), her head kept alive and her brain observable through a steel-fastened dome. As with The Brain That Wouldn't Die's Jan in the Pan, the petulant Elsa acquires the telepathic means to control Norberg's collection of body parts and seize her revenge.
For the episode's thematic thread, Mr. Lobo injects brain-oriented references with adorable, kitty segments, including appearances from the cantankerous Countess Blood Sugar; sassy Sally the Zombie Cheerleader; the browbeating Alan N. Smithee; Roxanne Guarino's headstrong, neo Jan; the litigious Rad Abrams, Skateboard Attorney; and last but not least, famed, feline behaviorist, Lincoln Nebula.
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