The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)

The Thing That Couldn’t Die: Directed by Will Cowan. With William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone, Carolyn Kearney. 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.

“This 1950u0026#39;s B-flick falls under the u0026quot;itu0026#39;s so bad that itu0026#39;s goodu0026quot; movie category.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI watched this picture numerous times as a kid on t.v. and hadnu0026#39;t seen it in years when I lucked out and caught it on American Movie Classics a few years back.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTime had not changed the cheesiness of the plot, or the terrible acting by most of the lead actors, but who cares? This movie was made in the 1950u0026#39;s, when cheesy horror and sci-fi movies were all the rage.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot revolves around a psychic young woman, Jessica, (portrayed by Carolyn Kearney, who wildly over acts in every scene sheu0026#39;s in) who discovers an ancient chest buried on her Auntu0026#39;s ranch. The chest contains the severed head of Gideon Drew (Robin Hughes), who was put to death several centuries earlier for satanism. Drew wants his head to be reunited with his body, and hey, who can blame him? There are several hilarious scenes of Drewu0026#39;s head being carried all over the ranch by the ranchu0026#39;s imbecile ranch hand Mike, as well as the head being hid in a hat box, etc. Can you stand it? They just donu0026#39;t make movies like this anymore.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI love everything about this movie, from start to finish! Itu0026#39;s not scary, just fun.”