Starring Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke, Dieter Eppler
Directed by Victor Trivas
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A scientist who's created a formula to keep body parts alive after death takes on a new assistant, not realizing the man is mad and wants to use the formula on human beings.
Here is a distinctive horror film from Germany which may have been one of the first of the "living head" movies, and I have to say the special effects or makeup the filmmakers use to create the disembodied head's appearance are first-rate, well interposed with actor Michel Simon's actual head. Frank, whose character's madness is not revealed initially, plays the sinister Dr. Ood with cool calmness before fervor overtakes him at the film's climax, and makes a fine villain. Kernke, who transforms from a hunchbacked nurse into a new person after another of Ood's experiments, also gives a fine performance. The print I viewed appeared to have a number of scenes cut out of it, but what remains is still an interesting picture with some creepy scenes and disturbing subject matter.
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