There’s a lot more than frozen dead things here.
Dana Andrews is an insane Nazi scientist named Dr. Norberg. He has an estate in England. In his basement he has twelve frozen Nazi soldiers. He is trying to raise the Third Reich with his experiments twenty years after the end of WWII. So far, he has not had a lot of success. He can raise the body, but not the brain. His experiments have only resulted in zombie-like creatures. He also has done a similar experiment on his brother (Edward Fox). It resulted in his brother being murderous. He attempts to kill anyone who comes near him. Norberg keeps the zombies in his basement too. He also has a wall of amputated arms.
Norberg’s superiors arrive. They tell him that there are 1500 frozen Nazi’s hidden in caves in different countries. They are the elite of the Third Reich. They need results. Norberg says he needs a brain to study. A live brain. Norberg brings in an American scientist who has had some success with similar experiments. He is Ted Roberts (Phillip Gilbert). Ted thinks he is there to find a way to keep organs alive for medical use. He slowly gets sucked into more and more bizarre things.
Norberg’s niece Jean (Anna Palk) arrives unexpectedly from America, and she has a friend along with her. Her friend disappears. They tell Jean her friend left on the early train. She didn’t. Norberg has cut off her head and is using it in his experiments. He now has his live brain.
"The Frozen Dead" was released in 1966 and was produced and directed by Herbert J. Leder. It is a British science fiction/horror movie. When you stop and think about it, this was one freaky movie for 1966. Even now it’s weird.
This movie takes “They Saved Hitler’s Brain” and “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” to a new level. It’s not just a head in a box; it’s also arms on a wall and frozen Nazi’s in the freezer. The most memorable parts are of course the arms on the wall and the retched helpless look on the face of the head that is still living. Although most of the movie is just plain weird, the head in the box is incredibly sad. In her helplessness her only plea is "Bury Me."
This movie is not just creepy. It has a sadistic side to the horror. It proves that by the mid-sixties the Hayes Code no longer had the power it used to.