Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Perfect cast and a good story

Absolutely the worst movie.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This movie is dumb as heck.The first half is extremely boring and a bit confusing. Exactly halfway through the movie the "Thing" wakes up and escapes from the transplant center.As far as I can tell, the black guy didn't know what was going to be done to him and the white guy didn't know they were going to use a black guy, yet neither is surprised at what has happened. They have a silly car chase scene and end up at a dirt bike race. A rider sees the "Thing" and drops his bike and runs away. All 3 of them(they brought a doctor)get on the bike and join the race! They literally spend the rest of the movie in the race,while all the other riders fall off their bikes when the "Thing" is behind them! They also cause dozens of cop cars to flip over.Later a newscast informs us that no cops have died.UGH.I can't believe this wasn't made for TV. The last half is watchable but I wouldn't suggest it.

This is one of the funniest movies that I've ever seen. Everything about it is absolutely horrible. How they ever got anyone to appear in this things is amazing. The dialog is worth the price of rental or purchase. The car/motorcycle chase is so funny that I nearly choked watching it. Every car crash was filmed from multiple angles and those were edited in to look like different crashes. Ray Milland and Rosie Grier on the motorcycle is the funniest scene ever in a movie. The budget for this movie did not exist. The music soundtrack is classic 70's bad-movie-music. I can't believe this movie does not have a larger cult following. If you only see one really bad, entertaining movie the year make it "The Thing With Two Heads".

This film is bundled on a DVD with THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT and while they are both very bad, perhaps THE THING WITH TWO HEADS is a bit worse--though this is like comparing cholera to cancer--they're both quite nasty!! This film from American-International is a strange melange of genres--being a horror, Blaxploitation, action comedy all rolled into one. And, sadly, it really does none of these genres very well.It begins with a rich racist doctor (Ray Milland) announcing that he's dying and only has a couple weeks to live. It seems that his body is dying and he has a crazy notion to graft his body onto a donor body AND eventually have the donor's head sliced off--placing him in total control of the body. Considering that this is illegal and immoral, they decide to find a guy on death row. But the only available donor is the very large and very Black Rosey Grier. This is a serious problem not just because the head and body would not match, but because Milland plays a very, very racist man and he's not happy when he awakens to see his new body! Rosey isn't particularly thrilled by the new arrangement and instead of just sitting by passively until they saw his head off, he decides to run away in order to prove he isn't a murderer as well as to get someone to remove Milland. In this escape scene the film degenerates to amazingly low levels of entertainment. The getaway seems to last almost a third of the film and looks more like an episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" or SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT with its ridiculous police chase. It begins with Grier/Milland AND a Black doctor jumping on the back of a mountain bike in a race. Grier's riding ability is better than that of anyone in the race as the others just keep falling off the bikes again and again--leading to Grier et all actually winning the race!!! Then, cops begin to give chase and in the process 14 police cars are totaled and the guys escape!! Talk about ridiculous! There's more to the film than this and it actually is occasionally funny (I love the line the girlfriend says when she asks if they have two of EVERYTHING), but in spite of this it still really stinks. But, if you are a bad movie fan, you actually might like it because it's THAT bad--so bad you will laugh along with it--particularly since the film never really takes itself very seriously.

friends, i am caked in chafe as i scribe these words, having recently experienced the horror of 'the thing in two heads' a tale of science gone mad, it shows us what will happen when doctors meddle with our genetic make ups, resulting in a monster of biblical proportions - a monster with two heads, one of these heads is a bird like skull with plastic beak skilled at pecking; the other a slavering wolf like critter, with menacing red eyes and teeth that have been perfectly moulded for chewing flesh and bone and gristle. as you can imagine, seeing this thing on its quest for meat is bone chilling and unorthodox. Half way through this film a strange thing happened to me. I looked up at the picture of me as a small boy on the mantelpiece and that boy, so unutterly unscathed by the ravages of time, smiled back and then his head turned 360 degrees around and around spinning and spinning out of the frame and towards me until only his face filled my room and it started screaming and screaming and in the end I shattered the night with a hammer and crawled into a white space where a peacock lived, and it whispered "that day you soiled your pants ... it wasn't your fault, Travis." The peacock then opened its feathers and my face as a boy was on each of its feathers.