| Brain Dead | |
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| Directed by | Adam Simon |
| Produced by | Julie Corman (producer) Lynn Whitney (associate producer) |
| Written by | Charles Beaumont Adam Simon |
| Starring | Bill Pullman Bill Paxton Bud Cort 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 |
Brain Dead is a 1990 horror/psychological thriller starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy and written by Charles Beaumont.
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 Martin's aid in reaching 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.
Dr. Martin's surgery is intended to successfully alter the patient's mental attitude, either unlocking the corporate secrets within Halsey's brain or else leaving Halsey unable to accidentally share them with anyone else. As Martin begins the surgical procedure, he starts to experience the same paranoid dreams as Halsey. The episodes grow in intensity until it becomes unclear whether Martin is a doctor imagining he's the patient, or a mental patient who succumbed to the delusion that he was a brain surgeon. Martin floats farther and farther from reality, caught between his loyalty to his business colleagues and his own humanity.