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Director: Ulli Lommel
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From Time Out Film Guide
Ulli Lommel graduated from playing twitchers and fruitcakes in Fassbinder movies by directing Tenderness of the Wolves, a touching account of a gay paedophile butcher. He then decamped to Hollywood to essay a career pitched somewhere between Dennis Hopper and Paul Morrissey. Mostly he made no-budget schlock, like this ludicrously straightfaced 'thriller' about brainwave transplants. A black hole for fading stars in which Dr Curtis kindly operates on the heroine (Love) who is in a coma after suffering a traumatic blow to the brain. The donor is a murder victim, unexpectedly supplying not only motor reflexes but memories, so that the poor recipient is soon being stalked herself.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Ulli Lommel
Producer: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Tony Curtis, Vera Miles, Ossie Davis, Corinne Alphen full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 80 mins
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