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Brain Dead
Brain Dead

Brain Dead (1990)

57% User Rating
1h 25min
Thriller
Horror
Science Fiction

"You have nothing to lose... except your mind."

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.

Adam SimonDirector

Cast

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Bill Pullman

Bill Pullman

Dr. Rex Martin

Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton

Jim Reston

Bud Cort

Bud Cort

Jack Halsey

Nicholas Pryor

Nicholas Pryor

Man in Bloody White Suit / Ramsen / Ed Conklin

Patricia Charbonneau

Patricia Charbonneau

Dana Martin

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

Vance

Brian Brophy

Brian Brophy

Ellis

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David Sinaiko

Berkovitch

Lee Arenberg

Lee Arenberg

Sacks

Andy Wood

Andy Wood

Brain Surgeon

Maud Winchester

Maud Winchester

Crazy Anna

Lisa Moncure

Lisa Moncure

Board Member

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Jon Kellam

Board Member

Willie Garson

Willie Garson

Board Member

John Paxton

John Paxton

Board Member

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David Sklare

Board Member

Cynthia Ettinger

Cynthia Ettinger

Nurse Anderson

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Shannon Holt

Toni

Vincent Foster

Vincent Foster

Fred

Brent Hinkley

Brent Hinkley

Dewey

Kyle Gass

Kyle Gass

Anaesthetist

Deirdre O'Connell

Deirdre O'Connell

Mrs. Halsey

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Ann Vincent

Halsey's Aunt

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Dorothy Vincent

Halsey's Aunt

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Dean Robinson

Valet

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Mark Boothby

Neighbor / Eunice Security Guard

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Steve Ruggles

Restaurant Manager

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Adam Lima

Bus Boy

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Jesse Douglas

Canteen Attendant

Patti Tippo

Patti Tippo

Resident

Barney Burman

Barney Burman

Experimental Face

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Laura McCorkindale

Dancing Madwoman

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Roscoe Pound

Wrong Man

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William Simon

Doctor in Lobotomy Film

Alexander von Roon

Alexander von Roon

Self

Reviews (1)

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CinemaSerf
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Rating 50%

February 8, 2024

"Dr. Martin" (Bill Pullman) is a renowned scientist who usually works in a room full of brains preserved in gelatine! Then he is tasked with actually applying some of his theorem and is to evaluate "Halsey" (Bud Cort). Now he used to be a very important mathematician before he became a bit of a paranoid schizophrenic. "Martin" concludes that it might be medically possible to carry out some surgery and restore his memories. This is manna from heaven for his ambitious corporate pal "Reston" (Bill Paxton) and their unscrupulous boss "Vance" (George Kennedy) so his plan is green-lit, and surprisingly successful. On leaving the office shortly after carrying one of his many jars, he is hit by a car and when he awakes he seems a bit different. His personality has changed. Even his wife "Dana" (Patricia Charbonneau) cannot recognise his personality as everyone around him thinks he's lost the plot - totally! He keeps seeing a man in a blood-spattered white coat and is convinced he is being manipulated and conspired against! What's going on? Is it what we think has gone on? The last fifteen minutes or so redeem this slightly in our search for an answer, but for the most part it takes a really flat ping at sci-fi horror delivering a weakly predictable story that ran out of steam quickly and permanently fairly early on. Pullman isn't really my idea of a good comedy actor and the constant vacillation between "dream" and "reality" from auteur Adam Simon ended up more wearisome and repetitive than entertaining. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood - but I struggled to engage with this and found it all just a bit banal.

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