Brain of Blood

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Brain of Blood
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Publicity poster for Brain of Blood
Directed by Al Adamson
Written byJoe Van Rodgers (screenplay)
Kane W. Lynn
Samuel M. Sherman
Produced bySamuel M. Sherman
Al Adamson
Kane W. Lynn
Starring Grant Williams
Kent Taylor
John Bloom
Regina Carrol
Vicki Volante
Angelo Rossitto
Reed Hadley
CinematographyLouis Horvath
Edited byJ.P. Spohn
Production
companies
Independent International Pictures
Phil-Am Enterprises Ltd.
Distributed byHemisphere Pictures
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Brain of Blood (also known as The Creature's Revenge, [1] The Oozing Skull, [2] and The Undying Brain [3] ) is a 1971 American horror film directed by Al Adamson and starring Grant Williams, Kent Taylor and Reed Hadley. Angelo Rossitto and John Bloom also appeared in it. It was also Hadley's last film appearance before his death in 1974.

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Plot

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is the hope of transplanting his brain into another body. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton, having unwisely put off acquiring another body until the last minute, transplants Amir's brain into the body of the disfigured simpleton assistant who failed in said chore. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the woman chained in the basement.

Cast

Production

Brain of Blood was produced by Samuel M. Sherman, Al Adamson and Kane W. Lynn. [4] It was written by Joe Van Rodgers (screenplay) [5] along with Lynn and Sherman. It was filmed by cinematographer Louis Horvath and edited by J.P. Spohn.

Cinematic Titanic

In 2007, Joel Hodgson created a new comedy riffing project called Cinematic Titanic . Along with other former cast members of Hodgson's former series Mystery Science Theater 3000 , Hodgson riffed Brain of Blood (under the later DVD title The Oozing Skull) as their first film for the new project. [6]

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