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Doc Gerard (Bruce Dern) and his assistant Max (Berry Kroeger) are all
caught up in their experiments in head transplantation and to this
end create 2-headed animals - much to the dismay of Gerard's wife Linda
(Pat Priest), who even goes so far as to call a friend, Ken (radio legend
Casey Kasem), for help, to pull Gerard away from his experiments - with
only limited success.
Then Gerard gets the chance of a lifetime: Linda is attacked by madman
Manuel Cass (Albert Cole), and Gerard can only just shoot him before he
can seriously harm Linda. However, once he has a dead body with a
physically undamaged brain in his house, he figures this is too good an
opportunity to miss, and immediately he transplants the madman's head onto
the body of Danny (John Bloom), his braindamaged, hulky but essentially
well-meaning gardener. Why he thinks though it's a good thing to grant a
madman who has attacked his own wife a new lease on life is left at
anybody's guess.
Thing is though the 2 headed creation soon breaks out and starts
murdering people, and while the police haven't got a clue who is behind
all this, Gerard and Max want to recapture the creature for further
experiments, and when Linda wants to talk reason into Gerard, he ties her
up.
Somehow though, the creature, Gerard, Max, Linda and Ken all end up in
a desolate mine for a final battle, and only Linda and Ken can save
themselves before the mine caves in, burying the creature and its creators
for good.
This is one of those so-bad-it's-good films: Yes, the premise of the
film is silly, yes, the plot makes no sense, yes, the special effects are
ridiculous, yes it's way too cheaply done for this kind of flim to be
convincing, and yes to whatever else you can throw at the film ...
however, as a whole the film is positively hilarious.
How could anyone ever have this taken seriously ?
How could anyone write such ridiculous dialogue and get away with it
too (granted, he could in today's Hollywood) ?
How could anyone have come up with this in the first place ?
... and how can anyone not find this great ? Granted, great for all the
wrong reasons, but still great.
Of course, the wonderfully ham performances by Bruce Dern and Albert
Cole also help this picture move along swiftly. This just has to be seen.
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