Brain Dead [Blu-ray]

Director: Adam Simon

Overview

A neuroscientist is hired to perform experimental surgery on a once-brilliant, now-institutionalized mathematician, in the hopes of retrieving some valuable data. Something goes wrong, however, and the surgeon soon finds himself deep within a nightmarish world of reality shifts and strange happenings in this science-fiction thriller.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/11/2018
UPC:	0826663189766
Original Release:	1989
Rating:	R
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	21,158

Special Features

NEW audio commentary with co-writer/director Adam Simon; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bill Pullman	Dr. Rex Martin
Bud Cort	Jack Halsey
Bill Paxton	Jim Reston
Nicholas Pryor	Man in Bloody White Suit / Ramsen / Ed Conklin
Patricia Charbonneau	Dana Martin
George Kennedy	Vance
Brian Brophy	Ellis
Lee Arenberg	Actor
Andy Wood	Brain Surgeon
Maud Winchester	Crazy Anna
Lisa Moncure	Board Member
Willie Garson	Board Member
Cynthia Ettinger	Nurse Anderson
Shannon Holt	Toni
Brent Hinkley	Dewey
Deirdre O'Connell	Mrs. Halsey
Kyle Gass	Anaesthetist
Dean Robinson	Valet
Steve Ruggles	Restaurant Manager
Barney Burman	Experimental Face
Peter Rotter	Composer

Technical Credits

Adam Simon

Charles Beaumont

Julie Corman	Producer
Adam Simon	Screenwriter
Charles Beaumont	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A clever and frightful little chiller that was unfairly ignored upon release in 1990, director Adam Simon's Brain Dead offers an enticingly complex foray into the human brain highlighted by a surreal sense of reality distortion. Scripted by frequent Twilight Zone scribe Charles Beaumont, the story somewhat resembles the darker entries of the classic fantasy series, albeit with a decidedly more gruesome slant. Bill Pullman offers a solid early performance as a brain researcher who is slowly drawn into a patient's psychosis after picking at the request of a slick corporate administrator (Bill Paxton) who hopes the probing will reveal valuable information, and as the troubled patient, Bud Cort (of Harold and Maude fame) offers a memorably giddy schizophrenic. Instead, the doctor finds himself drawn ever deeper into a puzzling world in which reality and fantasy clash in a seemingly unending cycle of psychotic confusion. Sporting a deliciously warped sense of humor that perfectly compliments the film's nightmarish tone, the film may not be entirely gratifying to impatient viewers who tire of its trippy sensibilities, but for those willing to let logic go, it's an interesting journey.