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La cabeza maléfica

Título original: The Thing That Couldn't Die
  • 1958
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  • 1h 9min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
4.3/10
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Carolyn Kearney, Andra Martin, and William Reynolds in La cabeza maléfica (1958)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper w... Leer todoA psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.

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    • William Reynolds
    • Andra Martin
    • Jeffrey Stone
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      • Will Cowan
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      • David Duncan
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      • William Reynolds
      • Andra Martin
      • Jeffrey Stone
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    William Reynolds
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    • Gordon Hawthorne
    Andra Martin
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    • Linda Madison
    Jeffrey Stone
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    • Hank Huston
    Carolyn Kearney
    Carolyn Kearney
    • Jessica Burns
    Peggy Converse
    • Flavia McIntyre
    Robin Hughes
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    • Gideon Drew
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    5bkoganbing

    Drake's decapitation in sunny California

    The Thing That Couldn't Die takes place on the California coast several centuries apart. The film concerns Satan worship and what Sir Francis Drake did about it on his round the world voyage which some have said made him the first European to see the coast of California.

    Where today Andra Martin resides on Aunt Peggy Converse's ranch with plans to marry boyfriend William Reynolds. She's a girl with psychic gifts and feels something evil on the ranch.

    The evil is a head and body buried in separate places some 300 years earlier by Sir Francis Drake who discovered one of his crew Robin Hughes in league with the Devil and worshiping him on the ship. Besides being a daring sailor and privateer without peer, Sir Francis Drake was a thoroughgoing Protestant and champion of the Reformation. He has Hughes executed by decapitation and as they do in these movies say if head and body are joined Hughes will rise again and lead the forces of darkness.

    Well the skull is found and the head of Hughes is intact and forcing several people on the ranch to his will once they see him. Two deaths occur before Good does triumph over Evil.

    This is a decent horror film although the Seventies spawned a slew devil worship films and compared to those bloody things this one is mild. But the atmosphere created is good and murky. I only wish Robin Hughes had a bit more to do. His character was a rich one and I'll bet that since this film only runs 69 minutes a lot of him was left on the cutting room floor.

    Fans of the spooky horror genre will like The Thing That Couldn't Die.
    8rbeck-4

    Establishes an aura of discomfort

    I saw this movie when I was 13 years old. From the perspective of a young teen-ager the movie made a lasting impression (along with "The Tingler" as two of the best horror movies I've seen (I'm now 56). The performance of Robin Hughes as the beheaded devil worshipper is compelling and downright scary - particularly when he stares at his quarry to capture them in his spell. The back & white film also establishes the feeling of cruelty of late 1500's justice..brought to the 20th century in the form of this brooding, evil headless character hell-bent to "get even" with humanity. I really want to see this movie again now that I'm an old guy. It has a "feel" that is uncomfortable, scary, musty, steeped in puritanical blindness, and antiquity.
    rixrex

    Compact and effectively eerie, and deserves better than it has gotten.

    Pretty scary to me when I saw it as a kid, and then I thought it was quite interesting when seen on AMC (yes, on AMC) a couple of years ago. The premise is a good one, disembodied living head of centuries old warlock is dug up and exerts mind control over all, while looking for it's body. It has quite a nice, sudden ending that reminded me of Hitchcock (not in style, only in the fact that it ended rather unexpectedly - for an example, see Family Plot again) but with a neat anticlimax, one that predates the typical anticlimax of modern fright films. I won't spoil it by telling it, but if you can see this film and remember that it was made in 1958, then you'll enjoy it. If your idea of what's scary is Alien, or anything after that, then forget it, you'll probably be bored or laugh inappropriately. Not that Alien isn't scary, but that's a whole different generation of horror.
    5BA_Harrison

    What's in the box?

    Jessica (Carolyn Kearney) has the power of divination, the young woman using a dowsing rod to locate water and long lost objects, such as the still-living severed head of Gideon Drew (Robin Hughes), a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier. Unearthed, the head uses its 'evil eye' to control people to try and find its missing body.

    To be honest, The Thing That Couldn't Die is a fairly bad film, too uneventful and sluggish for the most part to be an effective horror. That said, the basic premise is wonderfully inventive and suitably ghoulish, and those scenes that do feature the severed head, silently mouthing his commands, are actually very creepy. Kearney is also a good reason to watch the film - she's very appealing and it's a wonder why I haven't sought out more of her work (so far, the only other thing I've seen her in has been an episode of The Twilight Zone).

    The head is finally reunited with its body, but, within minutes, the film ends, Gideon Drew quickly reduced to a pile of bones by an ancient amulet. Just as it was getting good...

    4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.
    7Nightman85

    Atmospheric B thriller

    On a California farm, folks uncover the served head of an evil colonial man which begins to possess people.

    A rather inventive story makes this old B film a stand out from the other monster flicks of its day. Director Will Cowan gives this film some compact direction, making a nicely dark atmosphere for the movie, even creating some occasional eeriness and a few good shocks along the way. The music score for this film is the same spooky score used for the sci-fi classic This Island Earth (1955). The cast is pretty good, Hughes is especially good as the films non-deceased villain. Not a bad watch for those looking for a B flick that's a little different from the average rubber-monster movie.

    ** 1/2 out of ****

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      Co-star Robin Hughes would often perform Shakespearean monologues between shots. His horror makeup would enhance these moments all the more.
    • Errores
      The characters claim the farm is isolated. However, the openings credits show the farm is clearly on the outskirts of a small town.
    • Citas

      Jessica Burns: You're all horrible! I hope you all die!

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      Featured in Son of Svengoolie: The Thing That Couldn't Die (1981)

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      • 16 de enero de 1959 (México)
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      • Estados Unidos
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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      • Universal International Pictures (UI)
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