Movies

The Man Without a Body (1957) I believe this is the strangest of all "head on a table" movies. Millionaire with a brain tumor wants to have his brain replaced with the brain of Nostradamus. That alone is just ridiculous. The ancient mummy head of Nostradamus is revived and kept living on a table, then transplanted whole onto a living body, held on with a huge blocky plaster cast, making it the craziest head transplant monster ever since being transplanted to a body makes the previously talkative and erudite Nostradamus Head into a shuffling incoherent stranglemonster. Grand finale is astonishing, leaving me literally slackjawed in amazement. Completely nuts in that boring "head transplant movie" way. 8/10

The Beatniks (1960) Radio actor and voice artist Paul Frees wrote and directed this rock/crime exploitation cheapie. Familiar face Peter Breck gives one of his multitudinous crazed oddball performances as Mooney the beatnik psycho. Adequate. 6/10