presents WEIRD WEDNESDAY! Free! THE THING WITH TWO HEADS
MARCH 11, MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. LEE FROST, 1972, 35MM, 93 MIN, PG
I don’t know how filmmakers Lee Frost and Wes Bishop kept a straight
face long enough to actually pitch this movie but I’m sure glad they
did. Academy award winner Ray Milland plays a bigoted white doctor,
dying of cancer but obsessed with his technique of head transplantation
which he demonstrates on a gorilla - leading to the world’s first 2
headed gorilla rampage! When the doctor’s condition worsens, his
colleagues transplant his head on the first volunteer they can find.
Unfortunately, it’s the body of a black man wrongly sentenced to the
electric chair! Soon the 300 pound convict, played by Rosey Grier,
escapes from prison with the head of Ray Milland sticking out of his
collar, shouting watermelon jokes and seriously messing up his sex
life. They lead the police on a harrowing motorcyle chase you won’t
believe. In fact, disbelief is the only appropriate reaction to this
film. That, and gales of hysterical laughter. One of the all-time
drive-in classics. (Lars)
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