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A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. His crazed assistant cuts off his head and forces him to help on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse a new body.
- (812)
- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Victor Trivas
- 1959-07-24
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. A crazed assistant uses the serum to transplant the scientist's head on a hunchbacked nurse's body and faces the consequences.
Release date. 24 July 1959. ( 1959-07-24) Running time. 97 minutes. Country. West Germany [1] The Head ( German: Die Nackte und der Satan, lit. 'The Naked and Satan') is a 1959 West German horror film directed by Victor Trivas.
Rent The Head on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Dr. Ood (Horst Frank) puts his colleague's (Michel Simon) head in serum X, and a nurse's (Karin Kernke) head on the body of a stripper.
- (5)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Horror
- Victor Trivas
No, this isn't the psychedelic Monkees movie from 1968; that one's just called "Head." Rather, "The Head" is a West German horror production from 1959--and a very good one, as it turns out--that tells a freaky story of a wholly different kind.
The Head. 1959 · 1 hr 31 min. TV-14. Horror · Sci-Fi. A mad scientist's brain is kept alive by his demented assistant in order to attach a hunchbacked nurse's head to the body of a voluptuous stripper. Starring: Horst Frank Karin Kernke Helmut Schmid. Directed by: Victor Trivas.
