The Brain -- Mad Psychologists Take Over Town!

 


Name: The Brain

Directed By: Barry Pearson  

Subgenre: Creature Feature

Series: Spooktober 2021 entry #23; review #116


Review: The Brain is quintessentially 80's schlock, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The film follows our main lad as he slowly starts to uncover an insidious plot to brainwash folks from his town and, eventually, the world! He eventually faces off against Dr. Blakely, a psychologist who's mad with power after coming in contact with an alien entity that's so psychic it's literally just a big ass brain. Dr. Blakely uses his televised self-help program, ironically called Independent Thinkers, as a medium for his brain-child to send out psychic frequencies to all who watch and turn them into mind-controlled puppets. The Brain, as you might imagine, is squarely a creature feature, with lots of fairly interchangeable scenes of the giant brain eating people or using tentacle-based hallucinations to cause people to accidentally kill themselves. And, because it's bog-standard 80's schlock, there's some unnecessary nudity thrown in to help seal the deal. It's not particularly gory or scary, especially given that the Brain mostly just sits around menacingly for the film's run-time, but the film is the perfect quality to have playing in the background while you're doing something else, including meeting with friends to make fun of said movie. It's goofy, it's stupid, and it's fun. Oh, and prepare yourself to see the screenshot below a lot. They use the same recycled clip at least six times throughout the film. I think they meant for it to be a jump scare, but given that it's just a snarling face on big testicle-looking brain, it starts to feel like more of a 60's era Batman transition than anything remotely scary. And hey, if you're looking for more terrible (or campy) attempts at making psychology into mad science, then you might want to check out Dead Kids--it's way more goofy than the name lets on.



Overall Score: 2.5 out of 5 Chads thinking independently. Did The Brain scare you? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

IMDB: Here

How to Watch: The Brain is available on these platforms.


Official Fan Made Trailer



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