Ah, the German film industry. Glorious in the early days of film and certainly notable now but kind of an unacknowledged animal during the Cold War era. You'll be happy to know, the West Germans were making bad horror like the rest of us. After Keith's request for an old film, we pulled out Adam's 50 packs of movies and we decided on "The Head" or in the original German, "Die Nackte und der Satan" which according to Google Translate means, "The Naked And Satan." "The Head", vague as it is, is actually more accurate if less intriguing.The plot is essentially a marginally less boring version of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" with bad dubbing. A scientist discovers how to remove a dog's head and keep it alive, shows it to some collegues who are going to operate on him in an effort to save his life, and wakes up from surgery without a body himself. The very Aryan mad scientist who did it really wanted to get ahead. He also kills the only witness. He then decides to experiment a step further by kidnapping a stripper (advertised as "Super Sex Attraction Lilly!") and putting the head of a nurse he has a crush on who went in for back surgery on the stripper's body. With the exception of the nurse suddenly picking up the stripper's bad habits, this works out fine-ish until a sculptor very familiar with the stripper's body notices a distinct resemblance. The mad scientist pulls the, "You belong to me because I made you!" thing on her and it's a long half-hour trudge to his inevitable death.
At an hour and a half, this movie feels crazy long and is a chore to sit though with so little plot. At least it did have a few really creepy lines.
Quotes:
[in reference to a corpse] "I know you want to talk to him but don't count on him speaking to you."
[takes drink from glass] "What is it?"
"Now you can go to sleep."
"I just want you to loosen your blouse and hold still a while."
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