All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This movie is not all that bad. It's a lot like watching an old TV show or episode rather than something from off the big screen but a pretty good show it is. The atmosphere of this film is very nice if you Gothic Sci-Fi (from fog to weird looking medical instruments).Russia has created device that keeps a dog's head alive even though the body is gone. That technology has reached other scientists but one scientist wants to use this idea on humans and he does. He goes further than just a living head on a table, because he puts the head of his female hunchback assistant on the body of a stripper, she can now stand and walk as the rest of us but she does want it this way (from the body of another woman).I've read that The Head is a spin on Donovan's Brain and it seems both films have influenced or spawned The Brain That Wouldn't Die.7/10

From the very start this was much better than I had expected and despite an obvious low budget and some wooden acting, a very spirited piece with decent sets, spooky exterior shooting and very good soundtrack. Indeed there is much to enjoy here and it is just such a shame that all comes undone in the final reel. Oh how slowly this grinds to an end after so much has gone so right. A really strange film with some lovely ideas, indeed someone enterprising might consider a remake. We are talking mad scientists, of course, and the Germanic flavour here adds another dimension. Severed heads and transplants adds another, not to mention a hunchback nurse and a striptease club! So a little more of the 'lovely body', more focus on the central story and a decent finale would mean a film to shout about. Even in this state I enjoyed it, but for those interminable last fifteen/twenty minutes. Great shame but always worth a look.

"In this macabre tale of science gone wrong, a scientist is successful in creating a serum capable of keeping a dog's head alive after the body dies. Before the scientist can take advantage of his new discovery, he suffers a fatal heart attack. His assistant uses the formula to keep the scientist's severed head alive in an attempt to transplant the head of (a) beautiful, but hunch-backed, nurse to the body of an exotic dancer," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis. Victor Trivas' "The Head" is a lurid decapitation import. The dog operation is referred to, but not shown. The film is better done, but not as much fun as "The Brain That Wouldn't Die".*** Die nackte und der Satan (1959) Victor Trivas ~ Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Michel Simon

It was fun to read other commentators concerning the actors in this film. Otherwise, the whole thing would have been a pretty disappointing effort. As it is, the premise is kind of dumb. We must suspend our disbelief and accept the fact that a head can be kept alive. I suppose I'm not supposed to ask why the guy can talk without lungs and other respiratory apparatus. The scientist is mad (why are they always so crazy?). A kindly hunchbacked nurse gets a new body from a stripper and has trouble dealing with it (as most of use would). There is this kind of German Aryan thing going on. I can't quite put my finger on it. The movie has an interesting atmosphere but it is pretty bleak and painful. Of course, the talking head thing has been done again, including by prime time news commentators. Still, once you buy into it, it's an OK presentation.