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The Brain

USA 1988
produced by
Anthony Kramreither, Don Haig (executive) for Shapiro-Glickenhaus
directed by Ed Hunt
starring Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza, Christine Kossak, Bret Pearson, Harry Booker, Robert King, Steve Mousseau, Bernice Quiggan, Susannah Hoffman, Justine Campbell, Kenneth McGregor, Vinetta Strombergs, Richard Gira, Wendy Springate
written by Barry Pearson, music by Paul Zaza, special effects by Danny White, Craig Williams

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Jim (Tom Bresnahan) is a super-intelligent high school student but also a notorious troublemaker, so he is sent to the sanatorium of doctor Blake (David Gale) for some serious re-adjusting. Problem is: Not only is doctor Blake's sanatorium really run by a brain from outer space, this brain also wants to suck human brains dry via hypnotic waves, & o get to more & more human brains, it also uses doctor Blake's tv-show to get to the brains of a large American audience, slowly turning them into braindead zombies, &, should something go wrong, homocidal/suicidal maniacs.

So, Jimmy is put under the brain's spell, but since he is superintelligent, he is able to resist the hypnotism but ends up getting wild hallucinations. Shocked by this, he flees the sanatorium, but due to more hallucinations crashes his car & is thus easy prey for the sanatorium's personnel to be taken back.

Thank god though, one of the loonies (Steve Mousseau) in the sanatorium helps him escape, & his girlfriend Janet (Cynthia Preston) & friend Billy (Brett Pearson) have already arrived with a getaway car - though that would eventually cost Billy's life -, & Jimmy even finds out the truth about the evil brain. On the other hand, thanks to tghe brain's power & thanks to television, doctor Blake can convince everyone that Billy's a homocidal maniac, & so he's hunted by police & public alike, the only hiding place for the night for him & Janet being their high school, which is closed over the weekend.

But then Janet sees the tv-show too, & falls under the brains spell, effectively thinking - against better knowledge - that Jimmy really is the maniac he is made to be.

So, at very last, Jimmy is all on his own, & his only goal is to destroy the brain & free the population of its - & tv-doc Blake's - spell. Of course, after some lame chasees by car & on foot, he does so, effectively proving doc Blake to be an alien before a nationwide tv audience, & blowing up the barain with sodium.

 

One would think that a mix of Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Videodrome, of 50's brainsploitation & highschool-flick would make an interesting film, The Brain however totally neglects the satyric & parodistic potential its story has & invariably goes for cheap effect instead of thought -provoking idea, ultimately making this one just another teen-horror-flick of its time, indistinguishable from oh so many others in direction, plot or storytelling ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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