Another Point of Singularity

From Fango:

Actor Jason Evers, whose genre career spanned from the 1959 B-fave THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE to Frank Henenlotter’s BASKET CASE 2, died of heart failure in Los Angeles March 13 at the age of 83. The actor took the name "Herb Evers" when he starred in writer/director Joseph Green’s BRAIN as a mad scientist who keeps his fiancée’s disembodied head alive in a basement laboratory. He searches for a replacement body but ultimately gets his comeuppance in a remarkably gory-for-its-time finale. Evers went on to appear in fantasy fare like THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, and tangled with deadly snakes in the TV movie FER-DE-LANCE, a marauding bear in CLAWS and killer fish in BARRACUDA.

His last feature role was as the ill-fated Lou the editor in 1990’s BASKET CASE 2. "On the days with Ted [Sorel] and Jason, I barely directed," Henenlotter told Fango in 1990. "We’d discuss it briefly, I’d set up the shot, and then they’d basically do it themselves. That’s how good they are. In fact, Jason had his scene staged differently from the way I had planned, and we did it his way."

Herb was no Bradford Dillman, but he was a professional and a good actor. R.I.P.

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