Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) by Vanessa P — 26 Jun 2007

Decapitated people everywhere - never fear! Your life can be sustained via neck goo!

This review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) was written by Vanessa P on 26 Jun 2007.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die has generally received negative reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Steve S (3,182) on 25 Nov 2014

Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Noah B (300) on 05 Oct 2018

A cheesy B movie that scared the day lights out of me when I was 6 brings you back to the 60's…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Kendall I (341) on 04 Sep 2012

Cost maybe $5 to make, but what a demented, fun classic of horriffic badness…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Jadrien D (57) on 20 Apr 2010

A hilarious classic... but really not that great of a movie…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Tim S (2,419) on 03 Dec 2011

This is not one of the better sci-fi B-movies of the era, but it is one of those that is so bad it winds up being good (well, good is stretching…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Christopher B (2,528) on 10 Nov 2015

So many great ideas yet it still flopped. Just the same it's worth seeing once, if only to appreciate the Steve Martin film…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Robert B (2,055) on 08 Jan 2010

Just a really bad film. Sort of a thing Russ Meyer would do if he hated women. If you take it to seriously it can be a very disturbing movie…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 09 Jan 2016

One of those so-bad-it's-good-to-experience-at-least-once-in-a-lifetime efforts, this grade-Z cheapie is pretty wretched yet deserves extra…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Chad H (396) on 18 Jan 2013

My friends and I always watch bad b-movies for new years eve. On eyear this was the film. I think that sums it up…

Read Review

Review of The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

By Mark D (2,239) on 21 Feb 2011

B-movie gem that became popular with Midnight Cinema on TV. Thanks to MST 3000, I was introduced to this artifact…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Hannibal Rising (2007)

By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 02 Mar 2007

The most terrifying movie of the new year…

Read Review

Review of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

By Nicholas A (355) on 08 Jun 2015

How can the Arnold was bad in the first movie and the this movie he is good Also this was the same thing as the first one…

Read Review

Review of Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

By Anthony Del Valle (44) for Las Vegas Mercury (83) on 29 Oct 2004

[A film for] pre-brain Playstation 11-year-old American males…

Read Review

Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Apr 1997

When a kids’ flick has nothing to offer but cute special effects, it’s easy to think the filmmakers are patting themselves on the backs…

Read Review

Review of Escape from New York (1981)

By Aaron G (813) on 18 Jul 2016

The 80s camp failed to charm me. If I don't buy what's going on, anything after that doesn't matter…

Read Review

Review of Cube (1998)

By Shellview (8) on 12 Jul 2013

This is how NOT to make a film. Take five or six acting students (the only reason they could be so bad), Write some god-awful dialogue…

Read Review

Review of Monster Man (2003)

By Johnny Butane (36) for Dread Central (388) on 01 Feb 2006

Don't waste your time with Monster Man, unless you enjoy pain…

Read Review

Review of King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

By Bosley Crowther (448) for New York Times (5,786) on 08 May 2005

The one mild surprise of this cheap reprise of earlier Hollywood and Japanese horror films is the ineptitude of its fakery…

Read Review

Review of Shakma (1990)

By Bill B (2,505) on 05 Apr 2017

Okay, this is a film I'd been trying to track down for some time, and I have to say it was a helluva lot of fun once I got a legitimate copy…

Read Review

Review of Re-Animator (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Oct 2010

Ludicrous and inept, this low-budget 1985 splatter film directed by former Chicagoan Stuart Gordon tries to compensate for its complete failure…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Babylon

2022

69%144 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962

40%157 Reviews

Ocean's Thirteen

2007

67%797 Reviews

Miss Julie

2014

52%69 Reviews

The Family

2013

54%725 Reviews

Resident Evil: Degeneration

2008

56%532 Reviews

Reds

1981

76%360 Reviews

The Other Guys

2010

64%925 Reviews

Friday the 13th Part III

1982

51%635 Reviews

Old School

2003

71%613 Reviews

Celsius 41.11

2004

45%11 Reviews