Donovan's Brain (1953)

Directed by

Felix E. Feist

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor secretly keeps a millionaire's brain alive after a crash. The brain begins to take control of the people around it.

suspensefuleerieslow-burncerebralunsettlingclaustrophobicdatedpsychological

What happens

Donovan's Brain is an independently made 1953 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, produced by Tom Gries for Allan Dowling Productions, directed by Felix Feist, that stars Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis and Steve Brodie. The film was distributed by United Artists and is based on the 1942 horror novel Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak. The story involves an attempt to keep alive the brain of millionaire megalomaniac W.H. Donovan after an otherwise fatal plane crash. The brain develops strange powers and begins to possess people. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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