Starring Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel, Adele Lamont, Audrey Devereal
Directed by Joseph Green
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A maverick doctor accidentally kills his fiancee in a car accident, but uses a new serum he's developed to keep her head and brain alive, unaware of the hate and power growing inside her.
This is one of the sleaziest movies of its era, with a catfight between strippers, horrific demises for a number of its characters, a grotesque monster, and a nude scene in its foreign cut. Nevertheless it's become a cult classic of sorts, and it's certainly watchable throughout. In particular, I enjoyed the performance of Evers' crippled assistant played by Anthony La Penna (billed in the credits as Leslie Daniel). He gets to deliver most of the best dialogue in a European accent, asking Evers' mad doctor "how could you make of her an experiment of horror?!" and telling Leith's head how terrible she is before she ends up exacting revenge. The film is often ridiculed for the image of Leith's head sitting in a pan of serum laughing hysterically, but to give the actress credit, she takes her line readings seriously and does about as good a job as one could possibly expect, although I've heard accounts she detested the movie.
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