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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
An even scrappier early-’70s head-grafting shocker, built around an outrageous medical premise, lurid creature effects, and the same cheerfully disreputable drive-in energy.
02
Why this pick
This black-and-white mad-scientist oddity turns bodily duplication into a bug-eyed monster spectacle, making it a fine match for the grotesque, knowingly silly appeal of a two-headed experiment.
03
Why this pick
A sinister professor’s grotesque human experiments unfold amid carnival-freak imagery and British exploitation atmosphere—similarly tasteless, colorful, and fascinated by surgical monstrosity.
04
Why this pick
A reckless surgeon tries to defeat death with a kept-alive head, delivering bargain-basement laboratory horror whose outrageous premise is its central pleasure.
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Why this pick
For a faster, bloodier evolution of the same mad-doctor spirit: wild laboratory procedures, black comedy, practical gore, and escalating scientific hubris without taking itself too solemnly.
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01 / THE STORY
Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) arrives at a mansion as a passenger in a wheelchair; once inside Kirshner asks if his experiment has been a success, and is told by an orderly that it has been. He is taken to the basement, where we see the experiment is in fact a two-headed gorilla (Rick Baker) that Dr. Kirshner has created. The experiment is to determine whether two heads can survive on a single body. Dr. Kirshner has done this because he has not much longer to live and wants to transplant his still living head from his lifeless body onto a donor so that he may continue living and continue working as the world's most successful surgeon.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Philip Desmond
Lila
Thomas
Donald
Police Lieutenant
Police Sergeant
Nurse
Gorilla
