Drive-In Sci-Fi: The Head (1959)

This movie immediately reminded me of The Brain that Wouldn't Die, that i have reviewed earlier. Maybe because both of them contain severed heads alive in laboratory. though The Brain that Wouldn't Die, came 3 year after the Head, so its a question of who ripped who. From the get go we have gothic sets and music, or at least attempt to a euro-france existentialism. With serum Z the professor is able to keep parts of bodies alive after death. He managed to keep dogs head alive for 8 months. so at least humans arent going to be his first experiment trial then. We also find out that he is dieing from the heart condition and that he wants to experiment on himself with heart replacement. There is also a whore who is followed around by some guy but she doesnt care about him.
The henchman wants professor to make the back of his friend straight, while professor wants to live. so thy make a deal about the peration. meanwhile the assistant opposing the deal is killed. What the professor doesnt know is that the assistant only keeps the head of professor alive. He somehow manages to speak without having lungs or vocal cords. typical 50s sci-fi logic. Instead of thanking for saving his live professor asks to kill him, typical once again. Apparently the assistant is a animal rights activist as he explains that dog didnt want to live either but he still was forced to.
The prostiturte is actually an old friend of the new doctors assistant. yeah that didint come out right. anyway he lures her in, drugs her, then performs an operation to put her body and the friends head together. the friend isnt being told though.She still gets suspicious and doesnt believe him. After that the assistant tries to rape her but she runs away. She goes back to get apartment and her friend talks like the annoying landlady. She quickly discovers her new body and likes it. She hooks up with prostitutes friend who happens to be a sculptor. they figure out its actually Lilys body. She goes back and accuses the doctor of all wrong doing, and then he shows her the professors head. The professor is happy for her though, not the usual suicidal tendencies we know from him. Mean while the sculptor finds the real body. So she tells the whole story of the experiment to the sculptor and he doesnt believe her. But he still falls in love with her and there is intention for sex scene that was cut due to the rating system they had back then, it would have never passed.
The assistant kidnaps the girl back to his place, gives a dramatic speech and suddenly she wants to stay. he goes taunt the sculptor in a bad and decides to leave the place. the sculptor finally goes to police, and since he is a son of judge they believe him. But police is too slow and the sculptor saves the girl on his own.

Story: 6/10. Well they tried to do it pretty well so points for not going about and saying that they operated her in couple minutes.
Acting: 4/10. Pretty good compared what they had to work with.
Sound: 4/10. Either no sound of the mood fitting music. It wasnt great, but it was a step forward from the ones we are used to hear.
Sci factor: 1/10. Not much there, serum that keeps dead organs alive and well.
Lasting Appeal: 1/10. Nothing close to the atomic brain.
Overall rating: 3/10.

P.S. the original title is "Die Nackte und der Satan" which from German translates "The Naked and the Satan". such thing as "the head" isnt even a possible alternative title on Movies IMDB page. Either the american censorts of the dvd releasers had a very bad habbit of putting in random titles. Not that the original made any sense mind you.

Edit: wrong link.