The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
by Vince Rodriguez
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Director: Vince RodriguezDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino Theatrical
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DVD Review: The dangers of the MD God Complex
Summary: 5 Stars
'The Brian That Wouldn't Die' (also titled 'The Head That Wouldn't Die') was Mike Nelson's first foray into Dr. Forrester's evil laboratory, Deep 13. Prior, he was a simple temp, working as little as possible. However- he was at the wrong place at the wrong time when Joel (the series originator) found a rocket pod in a case marked 'hamdingers' (that's gotta be some Minnesota thing) and slipped off the SOL to Earth. He has not been heard from since. Mike, being a jovial, hearty midwestern man of little means, is sent into orbit to 'temp' as it were, for Joel. His first film, "The Brian That Wouldn't Die" Is a terrific piece of tripe all on its own but with Mike and the 'bots it truly comes alive. So alive in fact a woman, who should by all rights be dead, lives on, as only a head in a pan. She is fondly known as 'Jan in the Pan'. The trusty assistant- the guy who pleaded for the doctor to hasten to the summer house, thus crashing the convertible (this being the '50's there weren't any seat belts worn, nor were any even in the car) and decapitating his fiancee, the aforementioned Jan. The assistant owes the doctor something; because he is willing to hang around while the monster they created is locked in a basement closet. In fact, the monster 'problem' is why the Dr. rushed ever so quickly up to the 'summer house', resulting in the beheading of his girlfriend. This film deals, however obliquely, with the average MD's God Complex. Jan must live because lead footed doctor creepy guy can keep her alive. The monster also lives because the doctor put him together- working nights and weekends- from odds and ends from his hospital. His trusty assistant has a bum arm, but it is never made clear if the arm was bad before Dr. Feelgood got ahold of him or after they started working together. The movie really gets rolling when Dr. Sexlove turns on the K-porn in his car and starts trolling the streets for a body suitable for his beloved Jan. It gets better when Dr. Lovegod visits a local strip bar, which somehow results in a fight to the finish between two strippers. Right about then, one starts to think the only reason the movie was made was for these lurid scenes, all to the theme of 'K-Porn' music. That thought continues when Dr. Freakout visits an old friend, once beautiful but now 'badly scarred' (it's hardly that). She does have a terrific body though, and that's what she does for coin: she's a body model (something photographers had in the '50's/'60's-kids today will never understand it- before everyone simply took their clothes off for little or no pay). Dr. Creepy promises to make her horribly scarred face new again but she must go, now, to his laboratory. There is no time to get dressed, leave a note or anything. Back at the lab, old Jan in the pan, remarkably resentful toward the man who nearly killed her but is now saving her head in a lasagna pan for transplant, has been telling the closet monster he must break out and kill Dr. Dave before he patches more people together out of odd body parts. The one armmed assistant has a tiff with the monster for no appparent reason; the monster manages to reach through his caged window and tear all his remaining arms off. After getting blood everywhere, trusty assistant collapses- where else? but an armchair. The assistant somehow gets back in the basement to die just before Dr. Creepyboy gets home with the scarred but shapely victim. He drugs her; she realizes it and starts screaming then falls into a slumber. Lots of commotion starts in the basement; our Dare Devil Doctor goes down only to get a major scolding from Jan and his carotid artery ripped out by the monster, now out of the closet. The lab catches fire, the monster saves the drugged woman from yet more horrible scars, and Jan laughs and laughs as the movie fades. it's implied Jan dies; but she was quite the fighter! This film, beyond serving the purient interests of young men in the late 1950s, is a lesson to you medical types who want to patch people together with other people's parts without their permission. Someone is going to lose their head, and everyone will probably die. Mike spends most of the movie trying to get off the SOL, but realizes he's no handyman. He settles in for the long haul. His only hope is they mail his temp checks to his mom.
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