The Thing with Two Heads

The Thing with Two Heads

The doctor blew it--the most fantastic medical experiment of the age.

Directed by Lee Frost

Produced by Saber Productions, American International Pictures

197291 min5.0 / 10

A campy 1970s sci-fi comedy that uses the absurdity of a two-headed monster to satirize racism and class privilege through slapstick action and chase sequences.

A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Thing with Two Heads sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

  • Does The Thing with Two Heads end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

  • Is The Thing with Two Heads easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is The Thing with Two Heads scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Thing with Two Heads violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

21/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity81

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise8

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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