Brain Dead (1990 film)

For Peter Jackson's 1992 zombie film, see Braindead (film).

Brain Dead
Movie poster
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
Edited by	Carol Oblath
Release dates	January 19, 1990 (1990-01-19)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,000,000 (IMDB estimate)
Box office	$1.6 million^[1]

Brain Dead is a 1990 horror/psychological thriller starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy and written by Charles Beaumont.

Plot

Dr. Rex Martin is a top neurosurgeon, 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 further and further from reality, caught between his loyalty to his business colleagues and his own humanity.

Cast

Bill Pullman as Dr. Rex Martin
Bill Paxton as Jim Reston
Bud Cort as John Halsey
Nicholas Pryor as Man in Bloody White Suit/Ramsen/Ed Conklin
Patricia Charbonneau as Dana Martin
George Kennedy as Vance
Brian Brophy as Ellis
David Sinaiko as Berkovitch
Andy Wood as Brain Surgeon
Maud Winchester as Crazy Anna

Production

In the late 1980s, Julie Corman got summer interns to go through several hundred old scripts. The best one they discovered as one written by Charles Beaumont for Roger Corman in the 1960s. Adam Simon liked it and updated it for modern times.^[2]

References

External links

Brain Dead at the Internet Movie Database
Brain Dead at AllMovie
Brain Dead at Box Office Mojo
Brain Dead at Rotten Tomatoes

Charles Beaumont

Short story collections	The Hunger and Other Stories (1957) Yonder (1958) Night Ride and Other Journeys (1960)

Teleplays	"Perchance to Dream" "Elegy" "Long Live Walter Jameson" "A Nice Place to Visit" "The Howling Man" "Static" "The Prime Mover" "Long Distance Call" "Shadow Play" "The Jungle" "Dead Man's Shoes" "The Fugitive" "Person or Persons Unknown" "In His Image" "Valley of the Shadow" "Miniature" "Printer's Devil" "The New Exhibit" "Passage on the Lady Anne" "Living Doll" "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" "Queen of the Nile"

Screenplays	Queen of Outer Space (1958) Night of the Eagle (1962) Premature Burial (1962) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) The Intruder (1962) The Haunted Palace (1963) 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Brain Dead (1990)

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