# Movies about living disembodied heads? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018 "2013-05-10T19:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/21 "2013-05-13T01:41:16Z")
The Head in the TV show[Quark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/22 "2013-05-13T01:53:29Z")
_Nazis at the Center of the Earth_ – another movie starring Hitler’s head on a robot body, one of the great Syfy flicks. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/23 "2013-05-13T01:57:13Z")
Do the feature length _Futuramas_ count? I haven’t inspected them in detail for this feature, but heads in jars, particularly Nixon’s head, show up all the time. ---
**Author:** ![\_3Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9e5f3/32.png) [@\_3Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_3Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/24 "2013-05-13T02:39:48Z")
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, with a wonderful performance by Bruce Dern as the mad scientist. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/25 "2013-05-13T02:46:38Z")
I remember the head in the box mouthing words. Was the head trying to join its body? If so that movie totally scared the shit out of me for years. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/26 "2013-05-13T02:50:06Z")
[The Man Without A Body](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKI70fLRBU) (1957) ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/27 "2013-05-13T04:22:56Z")
There’s an episode of _Aah! Real Monsters_ (Nickelodeon cartoon) where the monsters are in danger of vanishing. Ickus’s body is erased so all that remains is his head, which Krum carries around. _Scary Movie_ has Shannon Elizabeth being stabbed and dismembered. She is unimpressed and is speaking in sarcastic barbs even after Ghostface dumps her head in the trash. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/28 "2013-05-13T21:01:14Z")
Not a movie…but didn’t Fringe have Desmond’s (from Lost) head reanimated in the Observer’s lab? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/29 "2013-05-14T15:24:42Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > _The Thing With Two Heads_ had Ray Milland’s head attached to Rosie Grier’s body, which also had Rosie’s original head. Does that count? Oh, that was a strange one! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/30 "2013-05-14T15:29:24Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I remember the head in the box mouthing words. Was the head trying to join its body? If so that movie totally scared the shit out of me for years. Yes, that was its goal. It frightened me quite a bit as a youngster. Then I saw it again as an adult – not so much! ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/31 "2013-05-14T15:50:04Z")
There’s, “The Man with the Severed Head” (1973), “Las ratas no duermen de noche” (original title). Also known as “Crimson, the Color of Blood”. I’ve not seen it, but unless the title is false advertising, it would seem to fit the bill here. There’s also an early 60’s or late 50’s teenagers-in-a-haunted-castle b&w horror/comedy, the name of which eludes me, that features a ghostly king whose disembodied head floats around the castle. Some_body_ will know the title. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/32 "2013-05-14T16:12:27Z")
The extremely peculiar Jeunet/Caro film [City of Lost Children](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/?ref_=sr_1) has a disembodied brain in a tank named Uncle Irvin. If you haven’t seen it, it’s kind of a cross between _La Strada_ and _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/33 "2013-05-14T17:04:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **The Brain that Could Not Die** , that classic of BadMovieDom, which MST3K mocked with “Jan in the Pan” You mean _The Head That Wouldn’t Die_. (Okay, fine, Brain too, but “Wouldn’t” is the operative word here.) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/34 "2013-05-14T21:23:13Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > You mean _The Head That Wouldn’t Die_. > > (Okay, fine, Brain too, but “Wouldn’t” is the operative word here.) That’s another movie that scared me as a kid! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/35 "2013-05-15T01:32:17Z")
Not a movie, but ISTR that John Carter of Mars had a sequel featuring a whole species of bodiless heads who used their spidery little legs to mount headless slaves and attach to their spinal cords. And of course Harry Dresden has Bob. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/36 "2013-05-15T02:36:44Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > There’s also an early 60’s or late 50’s teenagers-in-a-haunted-castle b&w horror/comedy, the name of which eludes me, that features a ghostly king whose disembodied head floats around the castle. Some_body_ will know the title. Oh, of course, “The Headless Ghost” (1959). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/37 "2013-05-15T03:23:39Z")
“Zardoz.” A head large enough to contain Sean Connery. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018/38 "2013-05-15T15:13:56Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > Not a movie, but ISTR that John Carter of Mars had a sequel featuring a whole species of bodiless heads who used their spidery little legs to mount headless slaves and attach to their spinal cords. The [Kaldanes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldane), from _Chessmen of Mars_. A much sillier example of the trope was Mark Lenard 's character in the _Buck Rogers in the 25th Century_ episode [Journey to Oasis](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533103/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-living-disembodied-heads/658018.md?page=1)