Brain Damage

Name: Brain Damage
Genre: Drama, Horror, Comedy
Released: April 22, 1988
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Beverly Bonner, Bradlee Rhodes, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Joseph Gonzalez

1988

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Manson International Pictures | Release Date: April 22, 1988 | Unrated

Starring: Beverly Bonner, Bradlee Rhodes, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Joseph Gonzalez, Lucille Saint-Peter, Michael Bishop, Rick Hearst, Theo Barnes, Vicki Darnell

Summary: One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

Director: Frank Henenlotter

Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 84 min

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Steve Simels

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s disturbing antidrug parable has more gross-out scenes than it probably needs, but it also has the funniest and most literate dialogue ever to grace a no-budget monster movie. Read full review

Leonard Klady

It’s a veritable crazy quilt of ideas that manages to engage our attention while our heads continue to dart away from the shocking images on screen. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

This gnarly gem of 1980s-era punk horror still looks and sounds a little rough, but the film and the supplements justify the plunge. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

There are some nice comic moments though; in fact relying as heavily on its disquieting black humour as on images of physical disgust, the whole thing works far better as comedy than horror. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

As in BASKET CASE, director Henenlotter combines some disturbing gore with an offbeat sense of humor that makes the entire disgusting exercise a bit more palatable. Read full review

Walter Goodman

Written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, this oozer specializes in unspecial effects and unspeakable acting. Strictly for the brain damaged. Read full review

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Feb 16, 2022

This film is totally insane. It is so crazy that it is amazing. Everything is so extreme. This is like David Cronenberg on acid. Not that I've done acid but I think that I have a good idea what it is like after watching this movie. This had everything that I like in a film. It is just soThis film is totally insane. It is so crazy that it is amazing. Everything is so extreme. This is like David Cronenberg on acid. Not that I've done acid but I think that I have a good idea what it is like after watching this movie. This had everything that I like in a film. It is just so over-the-top. This is made with zero-budget but that is what is so good about it - they didn't try anything that they couldn't. Perfect insane movie. Utterly nuts. It is so funny because it is so insane. Seriously entertaining.… Expand

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