Brain Dead (1990 film)

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Brain Dead
Directed by	Adam Simon
Produced by	Julie Corman (producer) Lynn Whitney (associate producer)
Written by	Charles Beaumont Adam Simon
Starring	Bill Pullman Bill Paxton George Kennedy
Music by	Peter Rotter
Cinematography	Ronn Schmidt
Editing by	Carol Oblath
Release date(s)	19 January 1990
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Brain Dead is a 1990 horror/psychological thriller starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy and written by Charles Beaumont.

[edit] Plot

Bill Pullman plays a top neurosurgeon Dr. Rex Martin who is active in studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illnesses. High school friend Jim Reston, a successful businessman at Eunice requires Rex Martin's aid in reading the mind of John Halsey, a former genius mathematician who once worked for the company and is now a paranoid psychotic at a nearby asylum.

This surgery, performed by Rex Martin is to alter the patient's mental attitude in able to successfully unlock the corporate secrets secreted within the patient's brain. However as Martin, begins operating he starts to experience unusual heated paranoic dreams which his patient has been encountering. Martin floats farther and farther from reality, is caught between friendship and loyalty in his business