head transplant theme
A surgical procedure to transplant a head from one person to another is featured.
7 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant (1971) | choice | The main novelty of the film is much as the title suggests: mayhem ensues when a scientist transplants the head of one man onto the shoulder of another. |
| futurama2x07 | major | Zoidberg put Fry's head on Amy's shoulder to keep him alive after his body got mangled. |
| movie: The Brain That Wouldnt Die (1962) | major | Bill kept his fiancée's severed head alive after she was mortally wounded in an automobile accident, and he plotted to transplant the head onto another body. |
| movie: The Head (1959) | major | Dr. Ood transplanted the head of Irene Sander onto the body of the dancer Lilly's beautiful body. |
| movie: The Thing with Two Heads (1972) | major | Dr. Maxwell Kirshner had his head transplanted onto the body of another man. But he first had a gorilla head transplanted onto another another gorilla to test the procedure. On an unrelated note, the two-headed gorilla escaped and ran amok. |
| tftc1989e3x13 | major | The story culminated with the aggrieved doctor getting his own back on his two-timing spouse by switching her head's place with that of her lover on their bodies. |
| movie: Mars Attacks (1996) | minor | The Martians switched the heads of Nathalie and her pet chihuahua. |