The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)

Very well executed

Too much of everything

Absolutely the worst movie.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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.

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.

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.

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.