THE BRAIN
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| Rated R
| | Copyright 1988 Brightstar Films Inc.
| | Reviewed by Andrew Borntreger on 'a long time ago' |
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 | Jim - A genius, rebel, high school student. These kids are a dime a dozen I tell you.
| | Janet - Jim's girlfriend, besides her promising career in fast food and refusal to have sex with him, she doesn't have much going for her. Dum, da, dee...
| | Dr. Blake - A world famous psychologist who is controlling people's minds with the Brain.
| | Willie - Food for the Brain; why did this guy even show up? (Answer: For one day's starving actor pay.)
| | Debbie - Willie's girlfriend, available now and only about thirty-two or so...
| | Vivian - One of the other scientists, she get's chomped. She also wanders around half naked in most of Jim's hallucinations, which is not a bad thing.
| | The Evil Assistant - Dr. Blake's to be exact. He goes around doing your standard "evil assist" stuff: chopping up police officers with an axe, chaining up Janet, and eventually being eaten.
| | The Brain - A brain-like creature which enjoys bathing in spinal fluid, long walks along the beach, controlling minds, and consuming bit part actors.
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| First off, if you haven't read it. Check out the excellent interview with Kevin Danzey in reference to this film.
Jim likes to play pranks, especially those involving pure sodium and a school toilet, this does little to gain him popularity with the principal. What he really doesn't like is Dr. Blake's show, which the doctor is using to project mind controlling thoughts from the Brain. When people are able to resist the monster they experience vivid hallucinations, usually involving tentacles or nude women. (Sounds like Cinemax must have another one of the monsters in their studio...) Do you really want to watch a goofy actor pretending to see and combat a writhing tentacle? I'd have locked him up in the funny farm too, though Jim has to flee when Dr. Blake's assistant shows up and chops the sheriff into pieces with an axe. After dodging the brainwashed authorities our little rebel saves the day by feeding the creature pure sodium, approximately a gallon of it.
The Brain is a fairly amusing piece; watch for the scenes where it is obviously mounted on a wheeled carriage and pushed along. Especially when you can see someone's foot sticking out. |
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| Things I Learned From This Movie: | |
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| Strange Brain creatures feed on mice and sultry blondes.
| | If you are trying to sneak in somewhere or hide do so in broad daylight, wear bright blue clothes if possible.
| | Boilers require pure sodium for some reason.
| | Never be the last one in line, that person always gets eaten.
| | Cutting someone in half with a chainsaw causes no splatter and is unlikely to attract the attention of any police within 50 yards.
| | Listening to a school fire alarm in monotone for 3 minutes is really annoying.
| | Our heads come off pretty easily - be careful.
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| 20 mins - Nobody saw him put a huge glob of glue in that seat? His parents are looking right at him!
| | 30 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
| | 41 mins - Few actors could more accurately portray a man fighting off a hallucinatory tentacle...
| | 53 mins - That's a darn clean axe considering he just cut someone's head off.
| | 61 mins - Now, let me get this straight - he used the giant pair of boltcutters to cut the handcuffs off himself how?
| | 75 mins - He just walked past how many people and cops, who are looking for him, without notice?
| | 87 mins - Enough with the "running up and down the stairs" scene.
| | 89 mins - He's stabbing it with a tube of caulk?
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Size | Dialog |  | thebrain1.wav
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| HS Principle: "So you think you're in America do you?"
Jim: "Last time I checked."
Principle: "Well you're not you're in high school."
| | thebrain2.wav
| 39k
| Jim's Mother: "Jim, Dr. Blake wouldn't be on TV if he wasn't good."
| | thebrain3.wav
| 75k
| Jim: "I didn't realize there were so many crazy people in Meadowvale."
Guard: "Crazy people are that way."
| | thebrain4.wav
| 28k
| Vivian: "Now take that thing and bury it where it belongs!"
| | thebrain5.wav
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| Vivian Hallucination: "This is your hallucination Jim. You have a dirty mind."
| | thebrain6.wav
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| Jim: "Look at this thing! It wasn't even human!"
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| | Click for a larger image | IMAGES | Scenes from the movie | |
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| | Watch a scene | VIDEO | MPEG video files | |
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Reply #1. Posted on April 06, 1999, 01:07:23 AM by razor@pce.net
Haha this movie was jam-packed with errors. Right from the beginning I spotted what appeared to be a mouse pointer during the credits screen after listing the composer's name. Overall, I'd say this video isn't too bad. And yes, Vivian's boobs were pretty damn appealing!
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Reply #2. Posted on April 15, 1999, 10:56:52 PM by David Emery
Just like you said Andrew. Fairly amusing, but overall not the greatest. The Brain does look pretty damn funny though!
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Reply #3. Posted on June 07, 1999, 01:47:30 AM by cosmicman@netscape.net
Hey, this movie is pretty cool, if you ask me! Of all the films I worked on, it's the only one where I actually got a screen credit! *LOL* By the way, I still have a Brain in my closet...I get it out on Halloween to freak out all of the neighborhood kids (and my wife, who to this day won't watch this tape all the way through *snif*)
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Reply #4. Posted on December 17, 1999, 10:21:21 AM by jason.hodgson@sheridanc.on.ca
I have seen this movie a couple of times and I was fairly impressed. The thing that probably impressed me the most is the fact that the film was shot, for the most part, where I live in Mississauga, ON. The first b-horror movie that I know of to be shot here!!!
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Reply #5. Posted on February 09, 2000, 01:32:14 PM by Paul H.
Good movie all around. To bad willie couldn't have died three or four more times. He just screamed "KILL ME". I like the flavor of this movie. It is the classic story line: mind controlling giant brain uses television to take over the world. 3 green globs.
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Reply #6. Posted on April 21, 2000, 02:46:05 PM by chris_mart@hotmail.com
First movie I ever saw that warned against abusing the chemical sodium (check the credits at the end). BEMaven --- www.homegame.org |
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Reply #7. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:09:49 PM by JB
Nice low-budget B-movie that doesn't take itself too seiously. Cyndy Preston rules!
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Reply #8. Posted on August 01, 2001, 09:17:58 PM by Mick
I saw this movie and it stinks pretty like when you eat too much mexican food. I think they should have a zombie to kill the Brain because zombies likes brains. And I hate when they kill the women save them and kill the stupid men.
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