The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) has been performing unethical experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father (Bruce Brighton), also a surgeon. When Bill saves a patient who had been pronounced dead, the senior surgeon, Bill’s father, condemns his son’s unorthodox methods, and theories of transplanting and keeping human body parts alive. While driving to his family’s country house, Bill and his beautiful fiancée Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) become involved in a car-accident that decapitates her. Bill recovers her severed head and rushes to his country house basement laboratory. He and his crippled assistant Kurt (Anthony La Penna credited as Leslie Daniel) revive the head in a liquid-filled tray. But Jan’s new existence is agony, and she begs Bill to let her die. He ignores her pleas, and she grows to resent him. Bill now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and decides to commit murder to obtain one for Jan. He hun