The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Beautiful, moving film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

This movie is dumb as heck.The first half is extremely boring and a bit confusing. Exactly halfway through the movie the "Thing" wakes up and escapes from the transplant center.As far as I can tell, the black guy didn't know what was going to be done to him and the white guy didn't know they were going to use a black guy, yet neither is surprised at what has happened. They have a silly car chase scene and end up at a dirt bike race. A rider sees the "Thing" and drops his bike and runs away. All 3 of them(they brought a doctor)get on the bike and join the race! They literally spend the rest of the movie in the race,while all the other riders fall off their bikes when the "Thing" is behind them! They also cause dozens of cop cars to flip over.Later a newscast informs us that no cops have died.UGH.I can't believe this wasn't made for TV. The last half is watchable but I wouldn't suggest it.

This is a gloriously silly film, almost camp with an anti racism message and a police car chase sequence that reminds you of those Hal Needham/Burt Reynolds films of the 1970s.The early scenes has a remarkable performance with a two headed gorilla, the gorilla's acting is sublime, no surprise as its performed by make up effects supremo Rick Baker, a 7 time Oscar winner (4 more than Daniel Day Lewis!)However the film features more than just future Oscar talent as it also stars former Best Actor Oscar winner and no stranger to schlock films, Ray Milland as a brilliant surgeon now affected by arthritis and cancer with just days to live. Milland is also a racist and in order to save his live with experimental surgery they transplant his head on the body of a convict on death row.Unsurprisingly Milland is not too happy with the result. There features a getaway as Milland hatches a plan to sort himself out.The film has series of high and lows, although more lows as far as I am concerned. It fails as horror as its too laughable, maybe works as social commentary but it needed zipping up a bit and cut down in length. It sort of meanders and gets a bit dull, even with the prolonged chase sequences. Some of the effects are very good unless when both Milland and Rosey Grier try to be together when you can guess one is behind the other. Its campy but should had been more of a hoot.

Remember in that 1945 Oscar Winning Best Picture when alcoholic Ray Milland snags a handbag in a nightclub, is caught & escorted out as the piano player breaks into a newly created song, singing "Somebody Stole Her Purse!"? Well now, Milland 27 years after taking home the gold for that classic can be escorted out with the "Boobie Prize" with the audience singing "Somebody Stole His Head!" And it ends up on the body of football legend Rosey Grier! The only difference is that between the 1945 alcoholic screenwriter and this 1972 bigoted doctor is that I'd rather hang out with the alcoholic! Just because an educated doctor can do miracles with an ape with two heads (a sight that has to be seen to be believed!) doesn't mean that he's a good guy, and in this case, Milland is despicable. Grier is an innocent black man on death row who agrees to donate his body to science rather than be electrocuted, and wakes up after the operation to find him snuggling cheek to cheek next to this racist jerk. Grier manages to gain control, escapes from the clinic (which is actually St John's Health Center on Santa Monica Blvd.!) and leads the police on a merry chase all over the valley with Milland's head and the noble black doctor (Don Marshall) who has already been a victim of hate from Milland. They end up at the home of Grier's confused girlfriend (Chelsea Brown, "Laugh-In") who is baffled to say the least. Her reaction is one of the priceless bad lines of all times. This leads to an off-the-wall conclusion that will leave you baffled.There is no way that you can view this with any cynicism. You simply have to toss your brain away for 90 minutes to enjoy the ridiculousness of it. While Milland is not the only Oscar Winning Actor to have stepped into the world of hideously bad cinema (Bette Davis, "Bunny O'Hare", Joan Crawford, "Trog", anyone?), he did pick the strangest vehicle. This film on DVD has one benefit over its co-feature, "The Incredible Two Headed Transplant", is that this one is watchable, the other simply offensive.

In a documentary I recently watched called "The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made", this exploitation curiosity is proudly ranked #3, but even though it's a generally dim-witted and inept production, I cannot possibly refer to it as one of the worst movies ever. It offers incredible amounts of fun, laughter, disbelief and astonishment and the film is unquestionably a delight for every cinema fanatic who's remotely into bizarre horror stuff. Veteran actor Ray Milland stars as the genius, but slightly power mad, greedy and discriminating scientist who managed to sew an extra head onto a gorilla's torso without killing any of them. So now, Dr. Maxwell Kirshner thinks he masters the entire transplantation business and intends to use the method on himself. It's understandable why Maxwell is in a hurry, seeing that an aggressive type of cancer is slowly rotting his entire body from the inside out. So, basically, he worked out the whole biggest breakthrough in the history of medical science only to save his own ass! The plan now is to recruit a convict on death row, transplant the Dr.'s head on his body and wait approximately 30 days for the head to adapt to its new host before removing the convict's original head. Tiny little problem, however, the only available prisoner on death row is black and the old chauvinist doctor is quite racist. The con, Jack Moss, is also innocent of the crime he's on death row for and intends to use the additional 30 days to prove this, regardless of the fact there's the cranky head of an old racist scientist breathing down his ear. "The Thing With Two Heads" is a clumsy mad scientist movie with heavy ambitions towards Blaxploitation cinema. Apart from the obvious thematic plot of a stereotypical black tough guy sharing the body with a stereotypical white racist, there's also the extremely groovy soundtrack. The sight of the two-headed person – I have no idea why they refer to him as "things" since he's clearly a person – is just plain laughable. The plot subsequently evolves into a strange type of action movie with Jack Moss escaping from the operating table to prove his innocence. There's a seemingly endless motorcycle race, with numerous police vehicles (fourteen to be exact) getting wrecked and loads of crazy stunt work to admire. It's quite fun and all, at least for a minute or three, but surely they could have come up with something better than a 20 minute chase? Especially with this film's original concept? Either way, in spite of all its shortcomings and missed potential, "The Thing with Two Heads" is an interesting cult product from the early 70's and definitely recommended to tolerant fans of the genre.