Tubi Thursday: The Brain That Wouldn't Die (2020)

 One of the most famous B-Movies got a Remake...and I didn't know about it?!?

I'm late here, but it is still free on Tubi, so let's check it out...

This Film is sometimes a Shot-for-Shot, Line-for-Line Remake.

We ger the cheesy dialogue setting up our Hero/Villain and poor Jan.

Other times, we get a random sight gag with lots of blood shooting onto the guy's face.
Weird.

He drives very fast and dangerously to his Dad's Summer Home, missing signs literally warning him to slow down.

He doesn't and the crash somehow doesn't injure him, but does cleanly decapitate Jan.

He takes it there and pumps her full of science and now she can survive as a head...for now.

And yes, it still bugs me after all of these years that it is called The BRAIN That Wouldn't Die and not The HEAD That Wouldn't Die.

The Doctor is now going to find a body for his lady and...he's just the creepiest creep there is.

Enjoy the 'wacky' hijinks as his plan to *check notes* decapitate a stranger doesn't go right.

L-l-adies.

The Film mostly plays out beat for beat with, again, the actual Dialog reused verbatim.
As someone who still owns the MST3K Episode on VHS, I'm sure of this.

That said, this Remake has a few expansions, turns and a neat coda to end things one.

You won't hear me complaining too much.

A Film that I'm of two heads...I mean, minds about.

On one head...hand, it is a pretty good version of the same Film with a satirical tone.  The creepy dialog is not changed much.

On the other hand...head, why just do the Film again?  It is a Cult Classic after all.

It's a tricky thing because the market for this is people like me who know the Film.  You're just mostly doing it again.
A much smaller demographic is those that may have heard of the Film, but never seen.  That, for instance, 10% of the 6% of people will be pleased.

There is a Bill Cosby joke that is perhaps not in good taste though.

At its best, this feels like a loving homage to this kind of bizarre cinema a la The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.  It's much less of a bad attempt to recreate the style a la House of the Wolfman.

This one- like the original Film itself- walks a fine line between being cheesy fun and genuinely-disturbing at times.
If you're a fan of the original, give it a try...but don't get too upset please.

A Film that has genuine moments of adding silly levity to a strange, dark Film.  At other times, it is just the same...so what's the point here?