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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 ... |