Dr. Bill Cortner is obsessed with performing surgical transplants and experiments with amputated limbs that he steals from the local hospital. While driving to his secret mountain laboratory to tend to an emergency his reckless driving causes an accident and his fiancée is decapitated. He keeps her head alive in his basement lab, and embarks on the perverse quest of picking out just the right body to sew her head onto. A man picking out a woman onto whose body he will sew his wife's head… Mark Twain said there were only four basic plots but he didn't include that one. It's brilliant.

Figuring that his wife deserves a nice body he prowls around town checking out female pedestrian's. He goes to nude art modeling sessions… you wouldn't want to kidnap some girl and then find out she's wearing a padded bra or has unsightly scars.

The great mystery of the film is why We cannot he wants to put this particular head on another body, because his wife is an incredible bitch. The head will not shut up, and never has anything good to say about anyone. While he is out body hunting, the vicious head is forging a telepathic relationship with a big monster kept chained up in a closet in the lab (left-over from a previous experiment) who will be the instrument of her revenge. (Revenge for what... bad driving?)

Previous home video releases of this classic film were butchered TV prints, but this Synapse edition is complete, containing almost 20 minutes of additional footage, and a very nice mastering job.