There is no better companion film for The Thing with Two Heads than this, a movie that's pretty much the same idea: Dr. Roger Girard (Bruce Dern!) is a scientist experimenting with head transplantation who finally gets the chance to do the experiment that everyone says shouldn't happen. Hijinks, as they say, ensue.

Girard had a caretaker who was killed. That man's son Danny (John Bloom, The Dark, The Hills Have Eyes Part II, Brain of Blood) is a giant with great strength and the mild of a child. Manuel Cass is an escaped mental patient who is critically injured after killing Danny's dad. So you know - why not transplant their heads on the same body? What can go wrong?

Larry Vincent, one of the first film riffers as horror host Seymour on Los Angeles' Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, shows up, as does Pat Priest (the second Marilyn Munster, of course),Casey Kasem (I really need to do a Letterboxd list on the films of Casey because, well, I'm a maniac) and stuntman Gary Kent (who the film Danger God was about).

Once, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Dern revealed he was not paid for acting in this movie. He was given a check for $1,700 that bounced and when he returned to the set for the next day of filming, it had already been shut down.

It certainly made money, as American International Pictures paired this with the Amicus movie Scream and Scream Again.

Okay, so he's no relation to the comic strip turned Broadway musical legend, but the resemblance is clear. It's as if a young John Candy was cast in the role and was able to fit into a stock costume of some hefty teen who had played it in their high school and then had the head of a psycho killer glued to it. The result is an awful movie that isn't even funny in a sardonic way Ray Milland and Rosey Grier would later be face to face. Bruce Dern, then a contract player at American International, gets to play a mad doctor, and we see two headed snakes and monkeys, and finally the addition of heads of crazy Albert Cole and dimwitted handyman John Bloom. Pat Priest of "The Munsters" gets sexually assaulted by the repulsive Cole and Dern gets it in his one head to unite the two which creates all sorts of more moronic mental problems.

At least with "The Thing With Two Heads" you had the satisfaction of campy comedy with the bigoted Ray Milland forced to smell Rosey Grier's breath next to his, but this has absolutely no humor and is repulsive from start to finish. There is nothing redeeming about this other than the fact that it has several well-known actors in the tackiest roles of their career. The opening game song seems like it's been made for a movie about a drifting hippie but that's not the case with what follows and the film ends up just being ridiculously boring and often offensive and frequently disturbingly violent. The noggin wasn't utilized in the creation of this piece of dreck, that's for sure.

Watching The Incredible Two Headed Transplant and you've got to wonder just why are scientists doing things like transplanting a second head on to a body which already has one? The explanations offered just never quite satisfy on the screen.

In this colossally bad classic Bruce Dern and Berry Kroeger are conducting secret experiments in body collaboration and they get a perfect opportunity when escaped maniac killer Albert Cole leaves the asylum he's been committed to and runs amuck. Oh joy, here's a great subject. So after killing the caretaker at the Dern estate, Cole's head is grafted on to the body of the caretaker's son who is a seven foot plus giant who was brain damaged at eight years of age and has that mentality.

Of course after that the two headed guy runs completely amuck causing great concern to law enforcement not to mention Dern's wife Pat Priest and best friend and fellow scientist Casey Kasem. That's right disc jockey and second rate Dick Clark, Casey Kasem. And as an actor I have to say Kasem is a great disc jockey.

Of course Kasem is no actor, but what did the rest of this cast think they were signing up for?