The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) User Reviews (47)

Totally insane...that's why it's still fun.

[Boba_Fett1138 · 4/10 · 3 March 2011]

Obviously this is a bad movie. But what else did you expect from a movie with a title such as this one has. I'll admit, this movie its title is the only reason why I really wanted to see it and no, I also certainly don't regret I did. Yes, it's still being a bad movie but it's just one of those movies that is fun to watch, regardless of how bad things get in this movie.

The movie does work out as fun because of its insane and silly concept. Main concept of the movie is a scientist experimenting on putting two heads on one body. But I seriously still don't understand with what purpose the professor was executing his experiments. As far as I understood it, it all had something to do with successfully transplanting limbs from one body onto another but this all doesn't explain why our dear professor and his disabled assistant are experimenting with putting extra heads onto animals bodies. But needless to say that this is simply one of those movies you really shouldn't think too much about, while watching it.

I was really interest to see how they had done the two heads effect on one human body in this movie. The answer is; poorly. It's quite laughable actually. For certain shots they used an obvious (very) fake puppet head, that never gets shown from the front and for its close-ups it's basically the one guy standing very close behind the other guys back, to create the illusion of two heads on one body. This should pretty much sum up how this entire movie is being like. Silly, cheap, poorly done and just overall bad but you still can't help being amused by it all.

No, it's not really a story with much good story and that also is really foremost its downfall. This movie could had still been a much better and more entertaining one if more was happening in it. Now the 'monster's rampage doesn't happen until far into the movie. It's all such a big waste and shame. Surely they could had come up with some more original and entertaining stuff than what they show in the eventual movie. They waste too much time with this movie by setting up its shallow characters and shaky plot, that is being filled with holes and inconsistencies.

I also just love it how mentally challenged persons why behave like little kids in movies always wear dungarees. In this movie that isn't any different and he's constantly wearing the same sweater as well in this movie to complete things. I also just love how insane and over-the-top the smirking murderer is in this movie. Those two are the persons who get attached to one and the same body in this movie, so prepare yourself for lots of insane madness.

The movie foremost sounds like a crazy B-monster movie from the '50's and for most part the movie is also really being that way but it it's actually an '70's movie, so it's still has lots of hints of the exploitation genre in it as well. The movie is not that bloody or gory but it still features plenty of killings and also some nudity. The camera-work and especially its editing are being quite experimental at times, which also makes it all the more apparent that you're watching an '70's movie here.

Funny that somehow Bruce Dern ended up being in this mess, that foremost is still being a silly/bad fun one to watch.

4/10

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"Dr. Gerard Must Have Been Brewing That Jekyl/Hyde Joy Juice"

[BaronBl00d · 3/10 · 17 June 2006]

A maniacal killer's head is fused to the lumbering, gargantuan body of a man with the mind of a small child by a scientist who just happens to specialize in fusing two-headed creatures in his spare time. Why? He says to show everyone what a genius he is. Why on Earth would anyone want to create a monster with two heads - neither containing the brain of anything remotely resembling worthiness? Such is the premise in this bizarre, fascinating, and God awful film made in 1971. Bruce Dern plays the "mad" scientist with decided disinterest. Can you blame him? He strolls around with drink in hand and never shows any real depth of character. By the film's end, his performance just caves in. The two-headed monstrosity, which battles bikers on bikes wielding chains and has a cumulative IQ of 60, is a true sight of ineptitude to behold. John Bloom, who would later get an even worse role as Frankenstein's Monster in Al Adamson's horrendous opus Dracula Vs. Frankenstein, plays Danny - a hulking man that lost his mind when he was left for dead in a mine shaft years ago. Now an adult, Danny is dutiful to his father, is treated like a mental defective by all concerned, and sweats a lot. The head of Albert Cole, a man who we see leering or laughing with crazy glee, is attached when Cole tries to rape Dern's wife(more on her in a minute) and kills Danny's father. Dern and his limp-wristed former surgeon assistant(Barry Kroeger) feel the time is right to make a two-headed freak with the body of Cole at their disposal and the mentally deficient Danny just there. This movie is a real hoot to sit through as every minute in bad - bad but fun. The story stinks. Director Anthony Lanza has little savvy. The production values virtually non-existent(although the head thing looks better here then some of the other two--headed monsters of the same era). Acting? What acting? C'mon - Casey Kasem as a doctor/hero? Dern looks like he lost a bet and had to be in the picture. Cole is annoyingly disgusting and ridiculous. Bloom is okay at best. But I really liked Pat Priest as Dern's wife. She sure didn't give a great performance, but she made a believer out of me as she fainted(several times), ran from crazy Cole, lounged in a chair by the pool, laid in bed either of her own accord or bound and gagged, and finally was tied and put in a cage in the lab - all in either a bikini, a small nightie, or some other light attire that showcased her attributes, the brightest things about this dreadful dreck. This movie is very, very bad, and I must confess I loved every minute of it. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Just hearing that soundtrack where every beat foreshadows something suspenseful will happen and rarely does. Or how about the dialog used in the picture? Whew! This is one of the all-time great of le bad cinema.

Not the worst movie about a guy who gets a second head sewn on.

[13Funbags · 4/10 · 24 April 2017]

What can you expect from a movie when Pat Priest and Casey Kasem are the most famous people in it? You say I'm insane, Bruce Dern is the most famous person in it? But you're wrong. He's not famous at all because I've never heard of him. I assume he was famous in the 60's or the 20's or whenever you thought you were cool but no one under 50 knows him. Anyway,this is much better than The Thing With Two Heads.The plot is much better and although there's less action, it's somehow less boring. Unlike that other movie this transplant was done by a rogue mad scientist, using unwilling subjects. He uses the body of a huge mentally challenged teen and the second head is from a psychotic rapist and you know that can't be a good combo. So of course the giant goes crazy and wreaks havoc. My only problem with the movie is the inclusion of Casey Kasem. His part was completely unnecessary and his acting was atrocious.You could literally edit him out and no one would notice. All we know about Kasem's character is that he is a doctor in the city. From what they say and what we see, it looks like the city is not close. Yet for some reason, when a body washes up on a river bank, Kasem is there with the sheriff. What?? Not to mention that when they turn on the radio it's Kasem's voice coming out. Those little things don't really hurt what is a very average movie. This is definitely worth watching.

Laughably silly Seventies Drive-In schlock. Not Bruce Dern's finest hour, but still a real hoot!

[Infofreak · 27 April 2003]

Call me demented but I loved this absolutely silly piece of 1970s Drive-In schlock! Director Anthony M. Lanza only made one other movie as far as I know, one I've been wanting to see for years, a 60s biker flick starring Dennis Hopper and Casey Kasem called 'The Glory Stompers'. Kasem returns in this one to play the concerned best friend of "mad" scientist Dr. Roger Girard played by cult favourite Bruce Dern (Kasem and Dern had previously played brothers in another 60s biker movie 'The Cycle Savages', a trash classic I highly recommend.) Dern, just like those scientists in 'Donovan's Brain', has his own lab in his home which he conducts his own private research, assisted by his crippled mentor Dr. Max ('Demon Seed'). Research, by the way, involving head transplants. So when a psychopath (Albert Cole) escapes on a rampage and kidnaps Dern's pretty blonde wife (Pat Priest of 'The Munsters'), it doesn't take long to figure out that the Doc is going to be operating on him soon. Especially when there is a handy mental defective (John Bloom, from 'The Hills Have Eyes 2') available (his caretaker's son). Now Bruce Dern is one of my favourite 1970s actors ('Bloody Mama', 'Silent Running', 'The King Of Marvin Gardens'), and I'd watch him in just about anything, but this must be the stupidest movie he has ever been involved in! Disinterested viewers who don't enjoy 60s and 70s exploitation and monster movies may find it just TOO stupid to get into, but I thought it was an absolute hoot, and loved every minute of it!

Headed!

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 6 February 2020]

There is no better companion film for The Thing with Two Heads than this, a movie that's pretty much the same idea: Dr. Roger Girard (Bruce Dern!) is a scientist experimenting with head transplantation who finally gets the chance to do the experiment that everyone says shouldn't happen. Hijinks, as they say, ensue.

Girard had a caretaker who was killed. That man's son Danny (John Bloom, The Dark, The Hills Have Eyes Part II, Brain of Blood) is a giant with great strength and the mild of a child. Manuel Cass is an escaped mental patient who is critically injured after killing Danny's dad. So you know - why not transplant their heads on the same body? What can go wrong?

Larry Vincent, one of the first film riffers as horror host Seymour on Los Angeles' Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, shows up, as does Pat Priest (the second Marilyn Munster, of course), Casey Kasem (I really need to do a Letterboxd list on the films of Casey because, well, I'm a maniac) and stuntman Gary Kent (who the film Danger God was about).

Once, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Dern revealed he was not paid for acting in this movie. He was given a check for $1,700 that bounced and when he returned to the set for the next day of filming, it had already been shut down.

It certainly made money, as American International Pictures paired this with the Amicus movie Scream and Scream Again.

Two heads are weirder than one

[MartianOctocretr5 · 5/10 · 22 October 2009]

Casey Kasem, Marilyn Munster, Bruce Dern, and Seymour in a campy horror cheapsterpiece that is good for some laughs.

Bruce Dern is a mad doctor/scientist, and of course, nobody has ever seen a mad scientist in a movie before. He concocts a plan to take a dead head off one guy, and surgically attach it to another guy. Neither he nor you will ever know why he wants to do this, but it provides the backbone for this juicy camp novelty, that looks to have been made on a budget of about ten bucks, and two S&H green stamps. Casey Kasem was not doing a top 40 show or Scooby Doo cartoon that week, so he drops by. He's a colleague of Dern, but not nuts like Dr. Dern is. I love the scenes where our hero, Dr. Kasem, turns on the radio, to listen to his own voice doing the radio news announcer. Pat (Marilyn Munster) Priest is the blonde bombshell romantic interest (of more than one character, if you catch my drift). And of course, the two-headed transplant: both actors combine to actually give this awkward looking beast some real emotion.

They're all good, in a campy way, but a special treat this movie had was a popular local late night horror host seen here in L.A. in those days, named Larry "Seymour, the Master of the Macabre" Vincent. He used to offer up golden turkey monster flicks, in order to poke fun at their awfulness, MST3K style. He roasted himself for doing "Transplant," although his all-to-brief screen before making a routine horror film exit, was actually pretty good acting. Sadly, Seymour died fairly young, leaving this as one of his few film appearances.

The idea is goofy, but the script has enough going on that the actors can work with it. They all seem to have had fun making the flick, too. Considering the z-budget, it's not bad at all. This can actually be entertaining if you go in expecting dumb but amusing camp.

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant should provide some cheezy fun especially if you're a Casey Kasem fan

[tavm · 2/10 · 10 July 2009]

I must reveal the last line of this pretty bad movie: "Too much imagination can destroy a man, deputy." So says Casey Kasem-yes, the recently retired "King of the Countdowns" himself. Not enough, apparently, made this picture not too exciting. I mean, all the fights between the two-headed retarded man-boy/not-so-deceased rapist are clumsily staged especially between that motorcycle gang that didn't seem so tough, now did they? And what is Bruce Dern, who was just getting associated with Jack Nicholson and would eventually make movies with Alfred Hitchcock and Jane Fonda, doing here still working for AIP? At least Pat "Marilyn Munster" Priest is good for some eye candy and damsel-in-distress excitement! Oh, and besides playing a doctor, Kasem also is on the car radio reading the news. Personally, I think I would have preferred to hear him doing his recently-started "American Top 40" show here as a plug, maybe with that show's first No. 1: Three Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not to Come"! And that diabetes-inducing theme song at the beginning and end just calls for an "MST3K" Joel/Mike and the bots riffing treatment! I've said enough so on that note, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant should provide enough cheezy fun for anyone in the mood for these late night drive-in fodder.

Two Heads Aren't Always Better Than One...

[JoeytheBrit · 4/10 · 8 September 2010]

There's no doubting this is a very bad film by anyone's standards, but it isn't without some entertainment value. Bruce Dern – clearly on his uppers back in '71 – takes on the mad scientist role with such laid-back indifference to the part that his performance alone is worth the cost of the rental or purchase or ninety minutes of your life. Never will you see an actor so clearly embarrassed by the rubbish he has somehow found himself saddled with or trying so hard to appear invisible. Dern speaks each of his lines with a kind of preternatural calmness that leaves you wondering whether some underhand producer hasn't drugged him so that he believes he's floating through a dream. His character is assisted by Max (Berry Kroeger) who, quite frankly, is the creepiest thing in the film – like a strange uncle whose lap your mum warns you not to sit on when you're a kid…

The plot follows the typical monster-movie template. Once again our monster is stitched together from people's body parts in a fortress-like laboratory to which access is denied to the good doctor's long-suffering wife (Pat Priest). But, unlike Frankenstein, this is no meditation on the dangers of man playing God, rather than a frank attempt to titillate undemanding teens. Of course, wifey can't resist having a peek in the lab and before you can say 'don't open the door!' she's opened the door and – well, I'm sure you can get the rest.

The poor simpleton who has a maniacal killer's head grafted onto his neck (don't you hate it when that happens?) is something of a giant, and he's filmed from a low angle so that no money has to be spent on special effects. I'm sure Messrs Bloom and Cole must have been pretty close friends by the end of the shoot. Of course the killer quickly becomes the dominant partner and forces his neck-mate to embark on a killing spree. He lumbers around the countryside, chancing upon necking teenagers and wasted bikers who, for some reason, find it impossible to outrun him and, cackling wildly, summarily dispatches them for no apparent reason other than he's completely bonkers.

The single moment of any worth in the film is the point at which director Anthony Lanza cuts away from the murder of the female biker, just as those brainless cackles are beginning to rise. It's a moment of restraint totally at odds with the rest of the movie.

Rather brutal...and not much better than you'd expect

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 2 May 2009]

Considering that this is a film about a mad scientist who grafts heads onto bodies to make two-headed creatures AND it's made by American-International Pictures, you certainly cannot expect the film to be much more than it is. This was cheapo drive-in movie fare and nothing more. As a result, Bruce Dern, Casey Kasem and Pat Priest (one of the Marilyns from "The Munsters") were doomed to make a film that did nothing to further their careers.

The film starts with Dern and his weird assistant in the lab creating multi-headed foxes, rabbits and the like. At the same time, a depraved maniac who makes Ted Bundy seem normal is shown on a killing spree that gets him placed placed in the loony bin. Naturally these stories soon converge after the nut escapes, as the maniac attacks Priest and is shot in the process. Since he is STILL barely alive, Dern does what any scientist would do--he saws off the guy's head and stitches it onto a retarded housekeeper's body!! Now, the new and improved(?) guy consists of a slow-minded guy who does everything the evil guy wants--and that involves lots of brutal killings by 1971 standards. Eventually, there is a showdown and Dern and his abomination meet their maker--no real surprises here.

Overall, the acting isn't too bad, but perhaps the maniac was too crazed to be real. I used to work in a mental institution and never saw anyone THAT crazy!! As for the script, writing, direction and acting, it's all pretty sub-par. Probably the worst of these was poor Pat Priest, who spent the movie either being attacked, tied up, screaming or fainting--a truly one-dimensional and thankless role. Not a good movie but silly enough that bad movie fans might like it. As for everyone else, don't bother.

2 heads aren't always better than one

[helpless_dancer · 1/10 · 15 April 2001]

Bruce Dern stars [?] in this unbelievably god awful film about a really way out doctor/scientist who decides to graft the head of a criminally insane man to the body of a retardo. What followed was one of the worst movies to ever come out of the entertainment industry in many years. I saw it at a drive-in in Houston with a couple friends so getting to yuk it up with them over the horrible plot made it fairly palatable. Had I been alone I may have died of sheer boredom. What a dog: and what was Dern doing in this turkey? Was he broke at the time?

Experiments in body collaboration

[bkoganbing · 2/10 · 9 August 2012]

Watching The Incredible Two Headed Transplant and you've got to wonder just why are scientists doing things like transplanting a second head on to a body which already has one? The explanations offered just never quite satisfy on the screen.

In this colossally bad classic Bruce Dern and Berry Kroeger are conducting secret experiments in body collaboration and they get a perfect opportunity when escaped maniac killer Albert Cole leaves the asylum he's been committed to and runs amuck. Oh joy, here's a great subject. So after killing the caretaker at the Dern estate, Cole's head is grafted on to the body of the caretaker's son who is a seven foot plus giant who was brain damaged at eight years of age and has that mentality.

Of course after that the two headed guy runs completely amuck causing great concern to law enforcement not to mention Dern's wife Pat Priest and best friend and fellow scientist Casey Kasem. That's right disc jockey and second rate Dick Clark, Casey Kasem. And as an actor I have to say Kasem is a great disc jockey.

Of course Kasem is no actor, but what did the rest of this cast think they were signing up for?

Get your heads on!!!

[Lord Bré · 8/10 · 26 October 1998]

Well, this movie is a real 70s trash. And it got one of the best soundtracks EVER. It is psychedelic de luxe, if you understand what I mean. It is a really cool idea to implant a second hand on a person like him...must see it. It's undescribable. It is an outrageous movie of all the trash movies I know, mainly because of the music that creates this mad and weird atmosphere... Splatter scenes are only rare, but nevertheless it's a film for that people too...

Watch it and tell me what you think of it....

The memories...

[poe426 · 7/10 · 25 January 2002]

Time and distance tend to make things fuzzy. When I first saw this one, it struck me as an entertaining little film (the way EQUINOX was entertaining, in a kinda creepy way). I was just a wee lad at the time, but I do remember how cool it was to see a two-headed giant yank a biker off his motorcycle and whip him to death with his own chain. But was my fond memory just the fulfillment of wishful bloodlust or the perceptive assessment of a seasoned young movie-going vet...? A recent viewing, after, lo, so many decades, finally put my mind to rest: it's not as bad as I'd feared it would be. Not great, but still, after all those years, entertaining.

The Citizen Kane of Two-headed Transplant movies

[onepotato2 · 5/10 · 13 March 2011]

Terrifically horrible exploitation movie that involves sewing the head of a fugitive/perv, onto a giant retarded farm boy. What could go wrong with that idea?

The production values are more obtuse than anything you'll ever see. True to the exploitation genre, whenever an answer has been supplied for why people don't act more sensibly, the film-makers just move on; no matter how weak the answer was. i.e. After you've been kidnapped by a perv-escapee and seen him killed, what could be more natural than rushing off to take a nap? In the course of about five minutes, 4 characters fall down and are out cold, just as the plot requires them to be. I love that two characters (after witnessing a dual-strangulation by a two headed freak) have nothing to say to each other as they quietly watch the perpetrator walk away. I love that the movie imagines that horny sociopaths lick their lips, bulge their eyes and laugh every time a woman comes into view. There is no actual "night" in this movies goofy conception of 'day for night' shooting. The movie is so unashamed of its teeming awfulness that it becomes sort of endearing. And finally, inept weirdo Bruce Dern is in a production suited to his talent.

'Incredible Two-Headed Transplant' will have you asking important questions like "What would I do if someone sewed a second head onto my body?" and "What night should I do my laundry this week?"

An absolute riot

[bwaynef · 30 March 1999]

An absolute riot. The kind of movie Edward Wood could only aspire to make. And Bruce Dern is always worth watching. No matter the quality of the movie, there's just something about the guy that guarantees a good time.

"Uh, my neck hurts."

[bensonmum2 · 2/10 · 13 September 2018]

Attach the head of a deranged psycho-killer to the body of a hulking man-child - what could go wrong? Well, in the case of The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, the answer is just about everything.

Before I sat down with The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant last night, if you had asked me, I would have sworn I'd seen it before. Easy mistake as I've watched the movie The Thing with Two Heads a couple of times and the similarities are numerous. Both feature a similar ridiculous plot device, bad "special" effects, AIP, generally poor acting, and a name actor or two slumming it. I think my confusion is understandable. And while neither is very good, I remember enjoying The Thing with Two Heads much more than The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant. I remember having a certain amount of fun with the former, while the latter is a joyless, mean-spirited exercise in filmmaking. Take the treatment of Pat Priest's character. She spends most of the film drugged, gagged, and locked in a cage. NIce, huh? What could and should have been a cheesy good time never so much as brought a smile to my face. Overall, it's a wretched experience.

The lone bright spot is Bruce Dern. Despite the dreck around him, he's pretty good. Admittedly, there a times where his professionalism is misplaced, but you can see the quality. Take the scene where Dern is internally debating the ethics of the surgery he's about to perform. The consternation he's experiencing comes through on-screen. Like I said, it's misplaced, but it's there.

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) **

[JoeKarlosi · 5/10 · 5 September 2004]

I always wish I could have more fun with this than I actually do. Is there such a thing as a cheapo Grade-Z flick being a "missed opportunity"? It's got so many potentially good-time cheese ingredients: Pat Priest (The Munsters), Bruce Dern, Albert Cole, John Bloom and Casey Kasem (!). But there's just something about it that's a lost opportunity as side-splitting exploitation hijinks, and it's never as much of a good time as its companion piece, THE THING WITH TWO HEADS.

Things seem kind of slow-paced for such an offbeat idea, and the good stuff doesn't really get started till halfway through the film. I get the feeling that Bruce Dern was completely devastated by being in this thing as he remains completely lethargic and practically whispers all of his lines throughout without any hint of conviction whatsoever. Then again, that's usually just Bruce Dern. Either way, his is a God-awful performance. I do like one really awesome shot where the lumbering two-headed creature is making its way across a misty lake at night, en route to surprising a couple necking in their car. Albert Cole is properly sadistic as the "bad head" while John Bloom (who was the Frankenstein Monster in "Dracula vs. Frankenstein") manages to pull of his "sympathetic retarded man" quite well. ** out of ****

Sure to disappoint all but the most hardened B movie fans

[funkyfry · 2/10 · 18 July 2006]

This is not an easy one to watch, long spaces of dialog, some poor acting and not enough good campy acting, etc. I can't say I hated the movie, I did laugh at a lot of parts, but ultimately it was nothing memorable. Bruce Dern looks stoned in most his scenes and sometimes cannot be understood because he's mumbling. Casey Kasem has a surprising amount of work to do in this film compared to other films I've seen him in like "Angels Unchained". Surprisingly, he's not that bad. Unfortunately it's one of the few surprises in the film.

The plot is very stale 1930s era mad scientist hokum. It's pretty sad when you have to say that "The Thing with Two Heads" is a relatively creative movie, but it's true when compared to this one. The plot is identical with "Donovan's Brain" and any number of generic mad scientist plots. Dern is a guy who has developed a technique for grafting one animal's head on another animal. DJ Kasem plays a doctor (although, oddly enough, whenever you hear a DJ on the radio in the film Kasem provides the voice for the DJ as well) who is an old college friend of Dern's, and Dern shows him his laboratory set-up with all its two headed rodents, monkeys, foxes, and rabbits, declaring his intention to soon use it on humans. Kasem seems oddly unalarmed, simply exchanging pleasantries with the wifey and Dern and promising to come up and visit at a later point in the film. The human experiment subject ends up being a brain damaged worker on Dern's ranch, whose father has just been killed by a homicidal rapist. Neither Dern nor his assistant (Berry Kroeger, who had a very suitable face kind of reminiscent of Peter Lorre's) seems to think about the fact that if they put a psychotic head on another person's body, they will simply create a psychotic monster. Didn't they ever watch "Frankenstein"? Geez! BAD BRAINS! Speaking of the psycho killer, Al Cole who I believe played him has to be one of the worst actors I've seen in a relatively "big" B movie like this. If the movie ever had any chance of working as a scary movie, Mr. Cole's unbelievably over the top performance would have ruined that. His way of communicating his lust is to literally lick his lips and bulge his eyes out. It's an embarrassing performance that could have been fixed sooner as soon as the first rushes came in, but the director either wasn't skilled enough or didn't care enough to fix the problem.

This film could have benefited somewhat from having its tongue a bit more in cheek. Everyone seems very serious, which would be fine if it wasn't such a tired plot and a standard script, standard direction, etc. There's really nothing scary about the monster anyway, the only people he kills are some bikers who nobody cares about in the first place and a couple schmoozing teenagers. In a film where the horror fails and there is no camp, you have basically a wasteland which would bore 99.9% of film viewers. The only laughs here are un-intentional and they are few and far between. There isn't a lot of gore or sex exploitation either, at least not in the print I saw which was actually an archival print. So not much to recommend here. Rent the one with Rosey Grier and Ray Milland instead, unless you're a big fan of Casey Kasem or Bruce Dern and you want a few cheap laughs sprinkled through an awful film.

Incredibly Bad... :=8P

[MooCowMo · 1/10 · 14 April 2000]

Dreadful, awful, terrible early 70's AIP monster flick that is sooooo bad, it almoost defies description. Wacko Bruce Dern("Silent Running", "The Wild Angels", "Bloody Mama") plays a wacko doctor who enjoys transplanting heads on EVERYTHING. Why he has this fixation for two heads, and cow this cud possibly benefit mankind, is never explained. Well, it isn't long before Dern tries it on humans, putting the head of over-the-top psycho Albert Cole("Dracula VS Frankenstein")onto the shoulders of hulking, retarded John Bloom("Dracula VS Frankenstein", "Brain of Blood"). The usual mayhem follows, as the slow, hulking monster(obviously the 2 guys pressed together)wants to kill, kill, kill. Oily Casey Kasem(an oily 70's dj) co-stars as Dern's oil college friend, and snuggly Pat Priest(tv's "Munsters")plays semi-robed, gratuitous platinum-blonde eye candy. Sports some of the foulest 70's funk/disco/porn incidental moosic in history(including the number "It's Incredible", sung by Bobbie Boyle), some laughably cheap 2-headed fx, and some of the least believable policemen you'll ever likely to see. Director Anthony Lanza("The Glory Stompers") was Ray Dennis Steckler's film editor for "Wild Guitar", and worked on udder trash gems such as "The Nasty Rabbit" and "Deadwood '76". His film looks like a moulding, yellowing home moovie, shot in someone's garage, basement, and backyard. You can almoost smell the urine stains coming off this one... :=8P This is "Manos" country, folks, they don't come moooch cheaper, stupider, or uglier than this. Hulking Bloom went on to play slow, hulking monsters in several laughable horror films in the 70'. The MooCow says this tortuous transplant tripe shoulda' been MST3K'ed, early and often! Check it out at yer own risk! :=8P

Who knew grafting a crazy person's head onto another person would end up so badly?

[Aaron1375 · 4/10 · 23 June 2020]

I think anyone with the ability to think and who was a doctor would surely know that this would end up badly, but then we would not have our very crazy and messed up movie, now would we? It was crazy and it was odd and not the best, but I still found it entertaining enough as we have a giant two headed man wandering the countryside as Bruce Dern, lab assistant with white gloves and Casey Kasem try to find the beast and recapture him because this walking abomination is surely helpful somehow...

The story, a man who is insane gets captured by the police and sent to a hospital for the mentally ill. Meanwhile, a guy comes to visit his friend because his wife is worried about him and considering he is grafting extra heads onto other bodies she has every right to be! I mean, he doesn't seem to be doing good experimental work so much as playing. Unfortunately, the crazy guy escapes as there is apparently only one guard on duty at the hospital and he goes back to killing where he is shot by the doctor as the crazy guy kidnapped the wife. The doctor's assistant talks the doctor into grafting crazy guy's head onto mentally disabled guy's body and a monstrosity is born!

The film has some odd performances, as Casey probably does the best job acting in this thing! Bruce Dern just seems completely out of it during much of the film. Then the fact that the mentally ill guy and crazy guy wake up sharing the same body and they both just kind of roll with it probably indicates the director just did not do the best job.

So, not great, but interesting and entertaining enough. Did not care for the ending as they basically omit the experiments the doctor did to protect his reputation and place all of the blame on the mentally challenged Danny who literally did not want to kill anyone. That too was strange as I would think the guy's head that was grafted on would have little to no power over the body. A lot of stuff makes little to no sense, but then neither does grafting a head of a psycho killer onto a man whose father asked you to take care of his son's body!

Can I vote this a zero?

[preppy-3 · 1/10 · 25 November 2002]

A mad doctor (Bruce Dern!!!) adds the head of a homicidal maniac to the body and head of a very big mentally-retarded man. The creature escapes and you can guess the rest.

Truly horrible, sick horror film with an incredible amount of blood, sadism and sexual content for a PG rated film. The script is full of howlers and has severe continuity problems--at one point Dern and his wife (Pat Priest) are seeing a friend out to his car. It's mentioned a few times that it's late at night, but it's clearly bright and sunny outside! Also there is noisy, loud "music" in the soundtrack that will set your teeth on edge. As for the acting--Dern looks miserable (no shock there!) and walks through his role. Poor Pat Priest! As his wife she's given nothing to do but be a victim or a sex object. She's assaulted (while in a bikini), is tied up (while in a very small nightgown), drugged, hit and locked in a cage! The woman somehow maintains her dignity. Casey Kasem (!!??!!) plays a best friend (badly). And John Bloom as the mentally-retarded man gives new meaning to the word "wooden". Everybody else is ever worse!

Bad dialogue, terrible acting, lots of gratuitous violence (at one point a person's face is blown away!) and sex. It's almost bad enough to be good but it's in such incredibly bad taste. And there's a title song (!!!) sung by the immortal Bobbie Boyle.

Utter trash. Skip it.

Movie deserves to be transplanted - to 3 a.m. showings only

[guitaramore · 1/10 · 15 November 2016]

Watching this movie makes you realize how much more valuable your time would have been doing something else. Anything. Like cleaning out that closet you've been meaning to get to, checking your bike tires for proper inflation, etc.

Even though it felt from the beginning like it was financed by someone on the verge of bankruptcy, and directed by someone with a harsh migraine, I kept watching "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant," hoping for something fun or fantastic.

My jaw dropped a few times at how astoundingly bad it was, but even that somehow wasn't fun. Once they get their creature up and running, it's "incredible" how little the filmmakers think of for it to do.

Running is not accurate - it's one of several things the creature can't do, since, to get the "effect," two actors had to be slammed together like two slices of bacon in a package. On a positive note, this may have been one of Hollywood's earliest nods to custom costumes for plus-sized couples.

Pat Priest of 'The Munsters' is lovely, and somehow Casey Kasem is in this, and does some good acting. The less said about all the other performances, the better.

The inane theme song at the end feels like an insult to brain waves of all shapes and sizes. Better check your brain at the door if you dare try to watch this, no matter how many heads you have on your shoulders.

Fun piece of 70's drive-in horror trash

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 30 May 2019]

Obsessed scientist Dr. Roger Girard (a surprisingly sincere and subdued performance by Bruce Dern) grafts the head of vicious psychotic criminal Cass (robustly overplayed with cackling fiendish glee by Albert Cole) onto the hulking body of dim-witted handyman Danny (a sympathetic portrayal by John Bloom). The two-headed man escapes from Girard's lab and goes on a rampage.

Director Anthony M. Lanza, working from a goofy script by John Lawrence and James Gordon White, keeps the enjoyably inane story moving along at a zippy pace, treats the ridiculous premise with admirable seriousness (we even get a few touching moments of pathos amidst all the carnage), and stages the monster attack scenes as well as the rousing cave-in climax with flair. Moreover, the earnest acting by the committed cast keeps this movie humming: Pat Priest as Girard's neglected wife Linda (as a yummy extra treat, the comely Mrs. Priest is seen wearing a bikini at one point), Casey Kasem as concerned colleague Ken, Barry Kroeger as loyal assistant Max, Larry Vincent as Danny's stern dad Vincent, Jack Lester as a hard-nosed sheriff, and Gary Kent as a rough'n'tumble biker. John Barber's funky-grinding score hits the right-on groovy spot. A real schlocky hoot and a half.

Incredible... where does that fit into the equation?

[lost-in-limbo · 5/10 · 19 February 2006]

Dr. Roger Girard and his pushy assistant are performing bizarre experiments in a secure back room at his home. These experiments involve creating two-headed animals, so after the complete success on a monkey, naturally the next step is on a human. The unknowingly subjects are that of a serial killer from an escaped mental intuition and that of their mentality handicapped farmhand who's massive in statute. Soon, enough the two-headed monster gets loose and starts causing grisly havoc. While Roger is all caught up in his work, his beautiful wife Linda is real worried about her husband's strange obsession and that she is all but forgotten in his work.

Pure schlock at its very worst, but this embarrassing shamble isn't all that bad in the entertainment stakes. Pretty much this low-budget monstrosity is completely loony with its shoddy story, wooden script, stuffy performances and plastic look. Hah! I felt real sorry for the animals that had another head attached to them. It's hilarious! Nothing is spared. But you know once in a while you come across one of these films that everyone can't stand, but on the other hand you find it so bad that it's good for an unintentional laugh. Well, that's what I got from this turkey. You can easily tear this flick apart, but it got me in a good mood, I suppose? Just how many times have these mad doctors creates an out-of-control monster, which suddenly gets loose to cause mayhem story been used? Plenty! It actually reminded me of a Simpson's Episode, which I wonder if they got the idea from this. But what does the word incredible in the title got to do with anything. Is it because I sat through… the whole lot… and had fun with it? Because that's more suitable, as the beast looks far from incredible.

The plot itself is practically moronic and the scientific experiments being perform are just plain ludicrous and useless to anyone. Well not if you want a monster that everyone will want to destroy, but heck why on earth would you want to create something with two heads just because it hasn't been done. And these are scientists? Though they turn into hunters in the third act of the story. You'll think that they would have more purpose, but hey that's right these people aren't sane, so that's there excuse. Now I can see why the outcome of the 2 headed human *roll eyes* is a frigging breakthrough in the science world. Though they were a bit foolish using a head of a whacked out killer! The look of the two headed human looked effortless; ah let me correct myself. No that's far from possible as it no more then a dummy head being used when using distant shots, but for the close ups you can tell why they got a big guy, so the other guy fit behind him. Though those close-ups were risible with insane facials being pulled by the two heads. This is because the two have different intentions; one drooling over killing people and the other just looking incredibly worried. The nut job of a perverted serial killer played by Albert Cole was a real riot, that's even before he's (supposedly) attached to the big fella played by John Bloom. They spend their time together trampling about aimlessly. B-film actor Bruce Dern plays Dr. Roger Girard who has recovered from a nervous breakdown… hmm are we sure about that? There's no real effort or interest in his performance, oh no he found out too late what a real mess this was! Berry Kroeger his assistant Dr. Max has only one thing on mind, and that's for the good of science.

The exploitation element is more than decent enough with its cheaply orchestrated bloody mayhem, just plain wrong experiments and that of the sleazy sexual context, mainly because of our crazy nut of a serial killer. Pat Priest is simply ravishing here, as she spends most of the time wandering about in her bikini and nightgown. So that's another plus. When she's not doing that she finds time to faint every now and again, well that's when there is trouble a brewing. After somewhat a slow start with many irrelevant padding, it soon gets into its (routine) groove and some added spark to stodgy pacing. This is when the laughably crazy moments really kick in and the films highlight has got to be the confrontation with some bikers. The stash between the monster and them is put together rather hectically. Even the film's climax is miraculously staged; it will blow you away… well kind of… ah, not in a good way though. The pumping soundtrack was remotely unpleasant to anyone's ears by continuously nagging away with the same jerky and whacka-wa tunes. Gee what a main theme song, it was damn awful and so overwrought! And what was the deal with those chiming sound effects. Oh well, that one of many senseless things to bob up. Every single frame has basically something that's nonsensical, incredibly illogical and just plain twisted. But these things work in the charm of it all and just had me cracking up.

Simply incompetent hogwash that has a touch of enthusiasm and fun enough when caught in the right frame of mood.

CASEY CASEM WITH A BIG WIDE COLLAR

[Dr Zaius · 20 November 1998]

This is a great party movie. My friends and I have watched it together at least four times since we were teenagers. There are so many laughable moments that I could list, but here are just a few favorites:

Casey Casem is a main character (a doctor), but also provides the voice of every news announcement heard on radios in the film! (Did they think we wouldn't notice?)

Bruce Dern saying "Johnny, this is an axe. It is used for chopping wood, and NOTHING ELSE."

Dern again, upon completing an autopsy of a lab monkey: "You know, if this little guy had been healthy, he'd still be alive!"

The totally gratuitous "lady getting out of the bathtub" scene.

The soundtrack is consistently inappropriate for the action on screen. I particularly love the opening titles -- a drippy love song comes directly after a maniac's menacing laughter.

Stilted acting, poorly written dialog, cheesy 70's clothes, a ridiculous premise, and totally unconvincing makeup effects make this one of the best scoff-able titles out there (even beating "Gymkata")! Recommended for your next scoff-fest!