The Brain (1962)

Directed by

Freddie Francis

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor keeps the brain of a dead millionaire alive in a lab. The brain uses hypnotic powers to force the doctor to find its killer.

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What happens

The Brain, also known as Vengeance and Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder, is a 1962 UK-West German co-production science fiction thriller film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Anne Heywood and Peter van Eyck. It was written by Robert Banks Stewart and Philip Mackie adapted from the 1942 Curt Siodmak novel Donovan's Brain. In this film, differing from earlier adaptations, the dead man Max Holt seeks his murderer through hypnotic contact with the doctor Peter Corrie keeping his brain alive. It was one in a series of films produced Raymond Stross starring his wife Heywood. Freddie Francis later called it "a film I should have left early on." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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