possible spoiler ahead jason ( a. k. a. herb ) evers be a brilliant brain surgeon who and along with wife virginia leith and be involve in the most lackluster onscreen car crash ever . leith be decapitate and the doctor take her severed noggin back to his mansion and rejuvenate the head in his lab . the mansion exterior be allegedly film at tarrytown lyndhurst estate while the lab scene be apparently shoot in somebody basement . the bandaged head be kept alive on lab equipment that almost cheap look enough for ed wood . some of the library music the movie high point later turn up in andy milligan the body beneath . leith head have some heavy metaphysical discourse with another of ever misfire and a mutant chain in the closet . meanwhile and the good doc prowl strip joint look for a body worthy of his wife gabby noodle . the end and in uncut print and feature some ahead of it time splatter and dismemberment when the zucchini head monster come out of the closet to bring the movie to a welcome close . this thing take three year to be release and then and audience give it the bad reception it richly deserve . between this and plan 9 from out space and a few others and 1959 should have be declare the year of the turkey .