Scott LeBrun A delightfully schlocky premise is given straight faced treatment here, as a Nazi scientist named Norberg (a slumming Dana Andrews) goes about the business of keeping various Nazi characters on ice and experimenting on them so that they can, one day, be resurrected successfully. A problem arises when his visiting niece Jean (the gorgeous Anna Palk) becomes VERY concerned about the sudden disappearance of her friend / traveling companion Elsa (Kathleen Breck).While somewhat disappointing - this doesn't play out the way that some people might want it to - it's an okay forerunner to the "Nazi zombie" genre that eventually flourished. There might be too much talk and too little action for some audience members, but everything is played with admirable sincerity, and the movie isn't completely lacking in memorable imagery. Writer / producer / director Herbert J. Leder ("Pretty Boy Floyd", "It!") gives us a pitiable decapitated head on a table, and the sight of severed arms attached to a wall. Filmed in Britain, this is limited in its color palette, and in fact was apparently originally shown in theatres in black & white. It features a wonderful schlock movie score composed by Don Banks.The cast is fun to watch, especially Andrews, as he makes an attempt at a German accent. Palk is an appealing leading lady, but Philip Gilbert is rather bland as the nice guy American scientist who becomes party to the machinations of our bad guys. Karel Stepanek and Basil Henson are entertainingly malevolent as Nazi goons. Alan Tilvern delivers a standout performance as Norbergs' crazed assistant. A young Edward Fox pops in and out of the story as one of the unfrozen dead. Breck is ultimately quite the sight, and she does earn ones' sympathies.An amusing, diverting bit of rubbish that may be worth a look for schlock enthusiasts looking for golden oldies of decades past.Seven out of 10.

naseby Ordinary, another take on 'Frankenstein' with dismembered body parts being given a new lease of 'life', this film remains ensconced in my head, (If you'll pardon the saying) since I last saw it about thirty years ago (not sure it's been repeated here in the UK or out on video/DVD).Disgustingly yet sort of delightfully so, horrible with Elsa's exposed brain and chopped off head, the last line in the film - my title above, gave me nightmares at twelve when I last saw it. A true kitsch horror flick that just has to be seen. It's not totally a turkey even if it sort of looks that way. Dana Andrews at the end of his career, still puts in a good performance helping neo-Nazis produce a new kind of 'master-race' with telepathic waves from his niece's chum's (Elsa's) chopped off bonce. she looks amazingly under-nourished and decomposed to boot, to add to the horror, whispering (yes, no vocal chords, or at least they couldn't be ably connected) and lots of nice tubes connected to her only remaining body part. She uses her telekinesis or telepathy whatever, to kill those who brought her condition to a head (sorry, couldn't resist!!!)However, just for that line, in my title, which is the end line of the film, uttered by her good self, I'd like to see it again. Nostalgia and nothing more! (And to see if it still seems as disgusting as I remember it!) * Since this review, I found it on Youtube, in nauseating low-key colour to add to the kitschness of it! Check it out!

Athanatos The Nazis' finest (who, in my opinion, couldn't possibly be all that fine) are corpsicled in preparation for the future, apparently a couple of decades downstream. Dana Andrews, a top German scientist, is now trying to thaw them out, but he just gets one basket case after another; brain damage seems to be a major problem. His henchman, knowing that Andrews wants a fresh head with which to work, kills the visiting friend of his daughter, who becomes the head-in-the-box. Naturally, she's a bit angry about this state of affairs. Naturally, all the Nazis end up dead. At the end of the movie, there's the problem of what do do with the head-in-a-box. No one suggests grad school. Instead, sans lungs, she says "Bury me!" Well, that probably is better than grad school. Actually, though it's easy to make fun of this movie, it's not a bad flick.

launch-2 If this is the same movie I'm thinking of, this young lady is visiting her father with a girlfriend. Somehow her friend's head gets decapitated (unbeknownst to her friend) and is kept alive by her (the "complete" girls) dad. A lot of things happen, I seem to remember Nazi's. But the last line is when the girl discovers her friends decapitated head alive on a table connected to its life support system, she asks if there is anything she can do. And the head says, "Bury me". Anyway, when I was 7 and saw that movie for the one and only time, I thought it was cool.....