Jason Evers (aka Herb Evers) passed away on March 12, Fangoria.com reports. Mr. Evers starred in several interesting genre films, including the lead role as the obsessed scientist who keeps his fiancee’s head alive in a kitchen pan in the sleazy gorefest The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. The film earned a place in B-movie history by providing replacement host Mike Nelson with his first subject on TV’s Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Other highlights of Evers career include the inane killer bear movie Claws, the paranoid Jaws knock-off Barracuda, the John Wayne turkey The Green Berets, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, the killer-snakes-on-a-sub telepic Fer-de-Lance, and the Ray Bradbury inspired The Illustrated Man. His last appearance was in Basket Case 2.
