The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant is a 1971 science fiction/horror film directed by Anthony Lanza. It is the earlier companion to the 1972 blaxploitation film The Thing with Two Heads.
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Plot
Dr. Roger Girard (Bruce Dern) is a rich scientist experimenting with head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny (John Bloom), who is an extremely strong full-grown man, but he has the mind of a child due to brain damage sustained in a mine accident. In an unusual turn of events, Manuel Cass (Albert Cole), a recently escaped mental patient and serial killer, has murdered Dr. Girard's caretaker and is seriously injured himself. Given an unprecedented chance to use human subjects -- a mortally wounded psychotic and a disabled man with little chance of surviving on his own, neither of whom he thinks will be missed -- Dr. Girard transplants Cass's head onto Danny's body to prove that his techniques can be applied to human beings. The new creature, with one head of a murderer and the other with the mental capacity of an eight-year old attached to an extremely powerful body, escapes and wreaks havoc.
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Cast
- Bruce Dern as Dr. Roger Girard
- Pat Priest as Linda Girard
- Casey Kasem as Dr. Ken Anderson
- Albert Cole as Manuel Cass
- John Bloom as Danny Norton
- Berry Kroeger Dr. Max
- Larry Vincent as Andrew Norton
- Jack Lester as the Sheriff
- Jerry Patterson as the Deputy
- Darlene Duralia as Miss Pierce
- Raymond Thorne as Motorcyclist #1
- Gary Kent as Motorcyclist #2
- Mary Ellen Clawsen as Female Motorcyclist
- Janice P. Gelman as Teenage victim
- Mike Espe as Teenage victim
Production
The film was shot in six days in Santa Monica, California. Lead actor Bruce Dern claimed he never got paid for his services.
In popular culture
In 1989, horror punk band Haunted Garage recorded a song of the same name based on the film for their 7" EP Mothers Day
See also
- List of American films of 1971
References
External links
- The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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