The Head

The Body is Gone... But The Head Lives On!

The Head — Plot

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.

• Release date
• July 24, 1959
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Science Fiction, Horror
• Director
• Victor Trivas

The Head — Cast

Horst Frank Dr. Brandt Karin Kernke Irene Sander Michel Simon Prof. Dr. Abel Helmut Schmid Bert Jaeger Paul Dahlke Inspector Sturm Dieter Eppler Paul Lerner Kurt Müller-Graf Walter Burke Christiane Maybach Stella