Movies like The Brain That Wouldn't Die

If you're drawn to The Brain That Wouldn't Die's central obsession—a surgeon defying death through impossible medical transgression—you'll likely find comparable ground in Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain (2015) or By Appointment Only (1933), which similarly chart how grief warps a healer's judgment into grotesque experimentation, though the former leans sci-fi absurdist while the latter anchors the collapse in psychological realism. For the film's darkly comedic tone mixed with body-horror fixation, One Body Too Many (1944) probably comes closest, pairing macabre obsession with a corpse alongside the same memorably strange problem-solving sensibility. If you want the obsessive-love angle reframed through a different lens—supernatural rather than surgical—Dead Again (1991) channels that same fixation