Review of The Head

The Head (1959)
5/10
I'm above all their laws!
4 October 2008
I really don't know if this was supposed to be horror or sci-fi.

In fact, I really don't know why I got it. There had to be some reason, but I forgot. Maybe I thought it was the nunsploitation angle as Karin Kernke is referred to as "Sister" Sanders. I have really forgotten.

It came out three years before the cult favorite The Brain That Wouldn't Die, and it certainly featured much better acting, but it just didn't have anything to recommend it beyond that.

Much of the action takes place in a strip club, but you don't get to see anything. You really can't compare the two bodies of the girls involved, even though Kernke in her first film was obviously larger in the chest than German sex symbol Christiane Maybach.

Horst Frank, who has done some 150 films, including Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails, really did a good and very creepy job as the mad doctor.

There was a certain sensuality in the film, but it basically got lost in the constant fades that made it seem as if it was made for TV with spaces for commercials.

Those who have seen The Brain That Wouldn't Die may want to check it out for comparison.
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