History Film / TheBrainThatWouldntDie

* [[WakeupMakeup Unbidden Resurrection Makeup]]: Looks like Cortner or his assistant may have some HiddenDepths, 'cause Jan's makeup stays absolutely perfect throughout the several days in which this movie takes place.

* RunningGag: Cortner's in an alternate dimension again!
** Jan's neck juice.

** Reanimated heads isn't that new - it is in fact OlderThanTheyThink, [[http://techzwn.com/2011/08/the-soviet-zombie-experiments/ as the Soviets were experimenting with reanimating heads as early as 1928]], about 30 years before this movie was released.

* PsychicPowers: Jan takes "differently-abled" to a new level - being headless gives her ''psychic powers''.

* UngratefulBastard: Jan. Cortner ''brought her back to life''. He's going to give her the body of a model, and she won't even have to lift a (proverbial) ''finger''! All she can do is complain, complain, complain! "Oh, this is unnatural! Oooohhhh, I'm a thing of horror! Why won't you let me diiieee!". Gah! Women! [--I swear...--]

* TruthinTelevision: Kurt's death throes. While it ''is'' goofy at first glance, in reality many of the things he does during those few minutes (stumbling around, repeating movements and actions he did earlier, convulsing even while he's able to walk upright) have been known to be things people [[http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Peter-Porco-s-death-detailed-580264.php may actually do]] when they are in a deep state of hemorrhagic shock due to a catastrophic injury, especially if they don't die instantly.

** Kortner looks Doris dead in the eye and tells her frankly that he's going to cut her face off and discard her body. She just laughs.

* EvilLaugh: The film ends with one from Jan.

** Reanimated heads isn't that new - it is in fact OlderThanTheyThink, [[http://techzwn.com/2011/08/the-soviet-zombie-experiments/ as the Soviets were experimenting with reanimating heads as early as 1928]], almost forty years before this movie was released.

!!''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' contains examples of:

* YouFailBiologyForever: The neck juice may replace the need to breathe, but one still needs lungs to be able to speak. Also, getting your head lopped off and reanimated probably won't make you telepathic. [[SchmuckBait Of course, it's hard to say for sure unless you try it yourself...]]
** Amazingly, a head really could live without its body if attached to proper fluids and machinery as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq06D0xRWmc here]]. (Warning: completely 100% certain NightmareFuel for dog lovers. Especially if your dog is a white spitz. [[BrainBleach Oh God whyyyyy?!]]) It didn't look like the dog could make any barks, growls or whimpers, though. And it certainly wasn't telepathic.
*** [[ParanoiaFuel That's what it]] ''[[ParanoiaFuel wants]]'' [[ParanoiaFuel you to think!]]

* PsychicPowers: Jan takes [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad "differently-abled"]] to a new level.

-->--'''Jan "in the Pan" Compton'''

* FollowTheLeader: Decades later, ''{{Frankenhooker}}'' would be released. Mike actually makes reference to it at one point here.

** Amazingly, a head really could live without its body if attached to proper fluids and machinery as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq06D0xRWmc here]]. (Warning: possible NightmareFuel for dog lovers.) It didn't look like the dog could make any barks, growls or whimpers, though. And it certainly wasn't telepathic.

This 1962 sexploitation film was featured as episode 513 of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and is notable for being Mike Nelson's first turn as host.

'''Editors, please keep this article neutral on the Joel vs. Mike thing. We don't want this turning into a FlameWar.'''

-->'''Servo:''' Err...
-->'''Crow:''' The answer: yes, she has the keys to the car.
-->'''Servo:''' Guess so.

-->'''Crow:''' Doesn't she need lungs?\\
'''Servo:''' No, she's [[FridgeLogic got neck juice]].
* CameBackWrong

-->'''Servo:''' Danny Bonaduce in the fight of his life!

-->'''Crow:''' Could you be stiffer and less appealing, please?

-->'''Crow:''' [[MushroomSamba [=MYYyyyy=] mother]][-[[MushroomSamba rr]]-][--[[MushroomSamba rr]]--] [[MushroomSamba [=gAaAve=] me thaatglaaaas [=it was A FAMILYHEIRLOOooMMMMwblblblbl!=]]]

* MoralEventHorizon: For Bill? Let's just go with ''the entire movie'' and leave it at that.

-->'''Mike:''' That's ''[[SarcasmMode mildly]]'' unethical.

-->'''Servo:''' Uh... this could be the ''single'' stupidest thing this clown has done - and he's done some ''pretty stupid things''.

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' treatment provides examples of:
* AWorldwidePunomenon: Kurt gets an arm yanked off (his good arm, no less), and the "arm" jokes fly thick and furious.
-->'''Mike:''' And ironically, he collapses into an armchair.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: During the opening scence in the operating room.
-->'''Mike:''' Just a normal Tuesday for Cher.
* HypocriticalHumor: While describing his "dream-buster" during the invention exchange, Dr. Forrester begins to describe its technological properties before stopping himself saying, "Well, it would take a scientist to explain. Just watch."
* IHaveMyWays: They have a field day with this one.
-->'''Dr. Cortner:''' I've got to find (Jan) a body.\\
'''Kurt:''' How are you going to go about getting one? (Cortner turns and walks off, Kurt seizes his arm) Bill, how will you do it!?\\
'''Cortner:''' There are ways.\\
'''Servo:''' (''EvilLaugh'', with side of LargeHam)\\
'''Cortner:''' (after shaking off Kurt's hand) There are ways.\\
'''Mike:''' Lots of... ways, many... ways... Did I mention there are ways?\\
(As Cortner is leaving the lab, he turns around and looks back briefly)\\
'''Crow:''' ''Ways.''
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Newcomer Mike is variously addressed as "Mr. Nielsen" (by Gypsy), "Mark" (Crow), "Mitch" (Dr. Forrester), and "Marv" (Forrester again).
** Mike himself offends Crow by [[ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity calling him "Tom"]] at one point.
* PlugNPlayFriends: Subverted. Crow and Tom convince Mike to open up to them by sharing a particularly embarrassing episode from his childhood... and then they [[ButtMonkey mock him mercilessly]] for it.
** Also played straight-ish earlier, when Tom and Crow break down crying while watching Mike try (and fail miserably) to get control of the Satellite of Love, because they're afraid that Mike might leave them, too.
* RunningGag: When Dr. Cortner's suddenly in a close-up shot filmed against a blank background that doesn't match the previous scene -- ''"Help me, I'm in another dimension!"''
-->"Ooo, there's cocktails in this dimension..."
* TrainingFromHell: Tom and Crow apparently put Mike through a crash movie-riffing course in the period between ''{{Mitchell}}'' and the start of this episode, involving watching ''TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'' and ''NightOfTheLepus''.
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->''“I told you … you should have let me die. Hee hee hee!”''
-->--'''Jan "in the Pan" Compton'''

* IntoxicationEnsues: Cortner spikes Doris' drink to sedate her for head-removal. The camera switches to her POV as she staggers around before collapsing.

* LifeImitatesArt: Who'd have thought that fifty years after Bill was playing around with the idea of a serum that could allow for complete organ and limb transplants with Jan and his monster, [[TheyCalledMeMad anti-rejection medications have been developed that could allow for things like full facial and double leg transplants]]? Not to mention nearly every internal organ...so at least in real life, [[TheExtremistWasRight]].

* MoralEventHorizon: For Bill? Let's just go with ''the entire movie'' and leave it at that. SoYeah...

* ScienceIsBad: Cortner's experiments for transplanting human limbs, organs etc. Long before JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, Cortner saves a man's life during emergency surgery using his "radical" techniques... and is promply chewed out by another doctor (his own father, at that).

* SpecialEffectsFailure: "Hey, his face ties off in the back!"
* TitleConfusion: The film's closing title card presents the title as "The Head That Wouldn't Die".
** It was the original title. They changed the main title (and the poster) because sci-fi films with the word "brain" in the title were all the rage.

* VindicatedByCable: Ever since airing on ''[=MST3K=]'', the film has gained a new reputation much like ''FasterPussycatKillKill'', being analyzed by such documentaries as ''Schlock!'' as a feminist parable.
* TheWoobie: Kurt, the hapless lab assistant who has been deformed by Cortner's experiments. He loses all sympathy once he [[VillainCorner inexplicably cops an attitude]].

* HilariousInHindsight: During the TrainingFromHell (see below), the 'Bots make Mike watch ''TheBeastOfYuccaFlats''. Thirty-two episodes later, guess what movie Dr. Forrester sends them.

** Not to mention making the brainless monster in the closet.

* FanNickname: Jan in the Pan.

-->'''Movie Doctor''' "I have my ways."
-->'''Crow''' "Ways! Lots and lots of ways!"
-->(as doctor is leaving room, he turns around and looks back)
-->'''Crow''' "WAAAYS!"

!!''[[{{Ptitleoo18sbsb}} The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' contains examples of:

--->'''Mike:''' That's ''[[SarcasmMode mildly]]'' unethical.