Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
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Release Date: Jun 1, 1989 Wide
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Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as a brilliant brain surgeon who agrees to perform an operation on a psychotic mathematician. This surgery, ostensibly, is to "adjust" the patient's attitude--and, incidentally, to unlock the corporate
Jun 1, 1989 Wide
Sep 26, 2000
Concorde/New Horizons Home Video
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5) | DVD (2)
Heck, I could sit through a movie a whole lot worse than this one just to see a pair of my favorite actors banter back and forth.
Only the two Bills [Pullman and Paxton] keep this one from flat-lining
I felt cheated by its wearisome ploy of not decifering what was a dream and what was reality.
Not the gory Peter Jackson film, but a great mindfuck film. Paxton and Pullman together at last with one of the writers from the Twilight Zone and Bud Cort. If this movie was a chick I would marry it (and then divorce it for my real wife...in case she reads this). Awesome!
October 3, 2007Super Reviewer
This had to go on here!So gory and funny and who can forget the kung-fu vicar?!
April 2, 2007Super Reviewer
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