The Thing with Two Heads Grows on Blu-ray in One Month
Whether you consider it a bona fide piece of 70’s schlock or a subversive work of b-cinema with sly subtext about race relations at the time, there’s no denying The Thing with Two Heads is a true cult classic long overdue for a hi-def upgrade.
Olive Films went berserk the other day announcing a slew of titles they’re bringing to Blu-ray on June 23rd: the Brian Bosworth biker flick Stone Cold, Josh Brolin’s 80s skateboarding flick Thrashin’, the Stephen Baldwin/Laurence Fishburne prisoners-on-the-run flick Fled, the 80’s murder mystery The Mean Season, the early Anthony Michael Hall/Robert Downey, Jr./Uma Thurman high school football comedy Johnny Be Good, and the 2004 stinker Soul Plane.
There was one more title that may of be interest to horror fans: the 1972 cult favorite The Thing with Two Heads.
Synopsis:
The Thing with Two Heads is a film that answers the age-old question: Are two heads better than one?
Despite his deteriorating health, incredibly rich and deeply racist brain surgeon Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend) plans to be around for a very long time. What better way to achieve his goal than to transplant his still cognitive noggin onto the body of a healthy human being? Having performed similar experimental surgeries on animals, Maxwell convinces his colleagues to perform the groundbreaking and unsanctioned medical procedure on him – the first successful head-graft.
With his body in rapid decline, Maxwell’s head is transplanted onto the first available body. And that would be death row inmate Jack Moss (Rosey Grier; Skyjacked, Timber Tramps). Did we forget to mention that Jack Moss is black?
The Thing with Two Heads, directed by Lee Frost (The Black Gestapo, Private Obsession) from a screenplay by Lee Frost, Wes Bishop, and James Gordon White, co-stars Don Marshall (Uptown Saturday Night, Terminal Island), Roger Perry (Count Yorga, Vampire), William Smith (Conan the Barbarian, The Outsiders), and Jerry Butler (A Bronx Tale, La Bamba).
Olive’s The Thing with Two Heads Blu-ray will run you $29.95 . That seems awfully steep for a disc that by all accounts will be bare bones. In fact, of all the previously listed new titles coming out on June 23rd, the only disc reportedly with extras will be Soul Plane. Seriously, freaking Soul Plane?
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