Villain(s)  Mad doctor

Actor(s):  Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Bruce Brighton, Adele Lamont

Brief Description  The Brain That Wouldn't Die (originally completed in 1959 as The Black Door and released in 1962) is a classic low-budget American science-fiction horror cult film directed by Joseph Green. It stars Jason Evers as an arrogant surgeon who keeps his decapitated fiancée's head alive in a serum-filled tray while hunting for a new body to graft it onto.

Plot:
Arrogant surgeon Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) and his fiancée Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) crash their car on the way to his country laboratory. Jan is cleanly decapitated. Ignoring the laws of nature, Bill retrieves Jan’s severed head and rushes it to his basement lab. Using an experimental nutrient serum and various electronic setups, he successfully revives her head, keeping it alive in a shallow tray. While Jan begs Bill to let her die in peace, he refuses, viewing her survival as a scientific triumph. He heads out into the city’s strip clubs and bars to prey on a woman with a "worthy" body to use as a donor host. Back in the laboratory, Jan discovers she is not alone.

She realizes Bill's deformed assistant, Kurt (Anthony La Penna), has his own tragic history of botched operations, and she hears a hideous, mutant "Thing" groaning behind a locked closet door—grotesque amalgamation of Bill’s earlier failed experiments. Using newly developed extrasensory perception tied to her disembodied state, Jan telepathically communicates with the imprisoned mutant monster, feeding its rage and manipulating it into breaking free. The creature escapes its enclosure, wreaks havoc, and starts a massive fire in the laboratory that consumes Dr. Cortner and Kurt, finally granting Jan and the other tortured experiments release from their misery.