The Thing That Couldn't Die (1. Articles. The Thing That Couldn't Die (1. As far as living head movies go, The Thing That Couldn't Die (1. Cranked out at Universal- International towards the end of the studio's run of atomic age horror and sci- fi films - post- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1. Tarantula (1. 95. Monster on the Campus (1. Richard Carlson and John Agar, as U- I was divesting itself of its contract players and stable of writers - the feature was intended as fodder for drive- in double bills and second run cinemas.
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Made for a miserly $1. The Thing That Couldn't Die has never appeared on a legitimate VHS tape or DVD but remains a fan favorite, engendering warm memories and kind words from those who saw it originally via late night television or as a Saturday afternoon spookshow. The project originated with David Duncan (a writer with credits ranging from The Monster That Challenged the World and The Black Scorpion (both 1. Monster on the Campus and the American edit of Ishiro Honda's Rodan, 1. Tinkering with historical fact, The Thing That Couldn't Die spins a tale of the collision of science and superstition at the burial site of one Gideon Drew, . The search for water in present day Southern California leads to the discovery of Drew's undying noggin and its deleterious effect on a handful of contemporary folk, among them a handsome young scientist (William Reynolds) and a beautiful girl (Carolyn Kearney) endowed with second sight.
One of only two features helmed by short subject director Will Cowan, The Thing That Couldn't Die suffers from early inertia aggravated by Russell Metty's flat camerawork (Metty was jobbing here between Magnificent Obsession . Already borrowing from The Mummy (1. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men when roughneck ranch hand (To Kill a Mockingbird's . The villain takes a long time to come together, the interim filled with additional possessions (when Horvath is gunned down, Andra Martin's artist's model assumes the dogsbody, porting Drew's head around in a hatbox) and a spooky flashback detailing Drew's execution, which plays like a dry run for the entombment of Barbara Steele in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1. The fright factor of The Thing That Couldn't Die is keyed to the viewer's anxiety as to where Gideon Drew's head might bob up next. George Mlis' The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head (1.
Tod Browning's silent The Show (1. Melville Shyer's Poverty Row whodunit Murder in the Museum (1. Lee Wilder's The Man Without a Body (1. Nostradamus into its plot mechanics but The Thing That Couldn't Die seems to have inspired a proper subgenre, followed as it was by Bert I. Gordon's Tormented (1. Joseph Green's The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1.
Chano Urueta's The Living Head (1. David Bradley's Madman of Mandoras (aka, They Saved Hitler's Brain, 1. Herbert J. Leder's The Frozen Dead (1. Stuart Gordon's Re- Animator (1.
The Thing That Couldn't Die also anticipates Disney's Blackbeard's Ghost (1. Jack Woods' back country spooker Equinox (1. Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1.
However undervalued they might have been at their home studio, the cast of The Thing That Couldn't Die was of interesting pedigree. Surviving a studio cut that had sent both Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds packing, William Reynolds had a brooding Johnny Depp quality that served him well in such programmers as Cult of the Cobra (1.
Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1. TV series, most memorably ABC's long- running procedural The FBI (1.
Playing the baby of the cast but older than most of her costars, Carolyn Kearney (in a role turned down by Jill St. John) enjoyed a fifteen year career, mostly in episodic television, guesting on such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 6. The Twilight Zone. Third- billed Jeffrey Stone had been the reference model for Prince Charming in Disney's Cinderella (1. British sci- fi thriller Unearthly Stranger (1. If the actor playing Gideon Drew looks deucedly familiar, you may remember the Argentina- born Robin Hughes as The Twilight Zone's eponymous ! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties - 2.
Century Edition by Bill Warren (Mc. Farland and Company, 2. William Reynolds interview by Tom Weaver, I Talked With a Zombie: Interviews with 2. Veterans of Horror and Sci- Fi Films and Television (Mc. Farland and Company, 2.
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1. As far as living head movies go, The Thing That Couldn't Die (1. Cranked out at Universal- International towards the end of the studio's run of atomic age horror and sci- fi films - post- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1.
Tarantula (1. 95. Monster on the Campus (1. Richard Carlson and John Agar, as U- I was divesting itself of its contract players and stable of writers - the feature was intended as fodder for drive- in double bills and second run cinemas. Made for a miserly $1. The Thing That Couldn't Die has never appeared on a legitimate VHS tape or DVD but remains a fan favorite, engendering warm memories and kind words from those who saw it originally via late night television or as a Saturday afternoon spookshow. The project originated with David Duncan (a writer with credits ranging from The Monster That Challenged the World and The Black Scorpion (both 1.
Monster on the Campus and the American edit of Ishiro Honda's Rodan, 1. Tinkering with historical fact, The Thing That Couldn't Die spins a tale of the collision of science and superstition at the burial site of one Gideon Drew, .
The search for water in present day Southern California leads to the discovery of Drew's undying noggin and its deleterious effect on a handful of contemporary folk, among them a handsome young scientist (William Reynolds) and a beautiful girl (Carolyn Kearney) endowed with second sight. One of only two features helmed by short subject director Will Cowan, The Thing That Couldn't Die suffers from early inertia aggravated by Russell Metty's flat camerawork (Metty was jobbing here between Magnificent Obsession .
Already borrowing from The Mummy (1. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men when roughneck ranch hand (To Kill a Mockingbird's .
The villain takes a long time to come together, the interim filled with additional possessions (when Horvath is gunned down, Andra Martin's artist's model assumes the dogsbody, porting Drew's head around in a hatbox) and a spooky flashback detailing Drew's execution, which plays like a dry run for the entombment of Barbara Steele in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1. The fright factor of The Thing That Couldn't Die is keyed to the viewer's anxiety as to where Gideon Drew's head might bob up next. George Mlis' The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head (1.
Tod Browning's silent The Show (1. Melville Shyer's Poverty Row whodunit Murder in the Museum (1.
Lee Wilder's The Man Without a Body (1. Nostradamus into its plot mechanics but The Thing That Couldn't Die seems to have inspired a proper subgenre, followed as it was by Bert I. Gordon's Tormented (1. Joseph Green's The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1.
Chano Urueta's The Living Head (1. David Bradley's Madman of Mandoras (aka, They Saved Hitler's Brain, 1.
Herbert J. Leder's The Frozen Dead (1. Stuart Gordon's Re- Animator (1. The Thing That Couldn't Die also anticipates Disney's Blackbeard's Ghost (1. Jack Woods' back country spooker Equinox (1. Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1.
Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1. TV series, most memorably ABC's long- running procedural The FBI (1. Playing the baby of the cast but older than most of her costars, Carolyn Kearney (in a role turned down by Jill St. John) enjoyed a fifteen year career, mostly in episodic television, guesting on such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 6. The Twilight Zone. Third- billed Jeffrey Stone had been the reference model for Prince Charming in Disney's Cinderella (1.
British sci- fi thriller Unearthly Stranger (1. If the actor playing Gideon Drew looks deucedly familiar, you may remember the Argentina- born Robin Hughes as The Twilight Zone's eponymous ! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties - 2. Century Edition by Bill Warren (Mc. Farland and Company, 2. William Reynolds interview by Tom Weaver, I Talked With a Zombie: Interviews with 2.
Veterans of Horror and Sci- Fi Films and Television (Mc. Farland and Company, 2.