Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

bowmanblue Brain Damage, made by the people who did Basketcase. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the film then nothing will. But I'll have a go anyway.It's eighties 'trash' horror at its best. A small, but very eloquent, blue parasite strikes up a conversation with a young man, then goes about attaching itself to the back of his neck, in order to give him mind-bending, euphoric hallucinations. However, the only drawback is that, in return, the parasite wants to feed of other people's brains.If you like the sound of that, you're clearly as sick as I am. And the next question you'll probably ask is, how much gore is there? The answer is plenty! Back before computer generated effects ruled Hollywood, people had to make sick puppets out of animatronics. The parasite a well-made and amusing (in a sick kind of way) and gets up to all manner of unspeakably evil acts.Okay, so no one in this film will ever get an Oscar (although the parasite himself was clearly overlooked in the Best Supporting Actor category), but if you're into eighties horror, then you're not expecting it.What you get is a well-made gory little number with plenty of tongue-in-cheek horror.Get the popcorn in, turn the lights down (watch out for the Basketcase cameo), remove brain, give it to a cheeky little worm and enjoy.

TheMarwood The first 10 minutes of Brain Damage are awful and hard to watch, as an elderly couple are trashing their apartment looking for Alymer and then we get an overlong hallucination from our main character Brian. Then we are introduced to the Zacherle voiced parasitic Alymer, with a show stopping "hi" and the film just goes bonkers and never stops. There's nothing quite like Brain Damage, a tale of a young man who gets addicted to the intoxicant that a parasitic creature injects into his brain and while running about hallucinating, Alymer feeds on unsuspecting victims brains. It's hilariously gory and thanks to the uncut version finally on the market, the brain removing fellatio sequence is intact in its full ridiculous glory. Henenlotter was firing on all cylinders while making this classic B masterpiece.

Jake Lamotta What a hilarious film this is. There are basically 2 main characters in the film. One is Aylmer, a 12 inch worm who needs to feed on brains (preferably human) to survive. The other is Brian, a young man who becomes addicted to a drug that Aylmer injects into his brain. During this drugged state, Aylmer uses Brian as a host to find victims so that he can consume their brains.The special effects are decent, especially during the kill scenes. Unfortunately, most of the death scenes are very repetitive. They consist of Aylmer leaping from some hidden location and attaching himself to a victim's forehead, where he munches through their skull into their brain whilst they flop about in agony. There is one notable exception however: In the film's best sequence, Brian has just been drugged by Aylmer. He stumbles into a club suitably named "Hell". There he meets a pretty but incautious hooker. They dance for a while. Brian, stoned out of his mind, is lured by the girl into the club's basement. Brian begins to pass out and the hooker leans him up against a wall. She grabs Brian's crotch and remarks "feels like you got a real monster in there" not knowing of course that the "monster" is in fact Aylmer hiding in Brian's crotch area. Excited, the girl decides to perform oral sex on Brian. She soon gets more than she bargains for. She gets down on her knees, unzips Brian's pants, and just as she opens her mouth, Aylmer burst from the pants and into the girl's mouth. Aylmer forces himself down the girl's throat, and she basically chokes to death as Aylmer burrows through the back of her throat into her skull.After that the rest of the film is a bit of a let down (how could it not be?) but there are still some good sequences, including one scene where Brian pulls his own brains out through one of his ears (very gory). The acting throughout the film is quite campy, and the music is actually very good.The ending is rather down beat as virtually every character in the film dies, with the exception of Brian's room mate brother. There are also very few like-able characters in the film. Vicki Darnell, who plays the hooker, is one of the few sympathetic (!) characters in the film. Props to her for putting up with this perverted director's crap, as I've heard shooting the scene mentioned above was a nightmare for the actors involved.Overall it is an enjoyable, although at times unpleasant, little movie. I prefer it over Basket Case, and it is miles ahead of anything Frank H. has done lately.

Tromafreak Let me just say it right off the bat. God bless Frank Henenlotter. This guy is a master of 80's B-Horror every bit as much as Lloyd Kaufman. Henenlotter is known mainly for what I consider the greatest Horror movie of the 80's, that's right, Basket Case. But later on, in the late-80's, Henenlotter would work his low-budget magic once again.Now, this is what I call an intriguing storyline... Meet Brian, Brian lives with his brother in a New York apartment, he mostly keeps to himself in his room. Brian isn't some kind of a freak or anything, he's just depressed and bored. Well, things are about to liven up for Brian, because there is a thousand year old worm-like parasite loose in the building. Meet Elmer the Aylmer, Elmer can produce a highly-addictive psychedelic liquid, and inject it into peoples brains. Elmer drugs Brian, who is now experiencing his first good day in quite awhile. The fast talking Elmer aims to make friends with Brian. Naturally, Brian welcomes the little fella with open arms. Just like every other drug, and pretty much anything that makes you feel good, there is a catch. Elmer survives on one thing, human brains. And you guessed it, it's now Brian's responsibility to bring home the bacon, so to speak, or no more good days (brain damage). With his brain only half fried, Brian still has half a conscience, and just like any drug-addict who has that moment of clarity, poor Brian has some detoxing to do. But in this case, Brian's drug of choice will quite literally be taunting him the whole way back. I don't know about you, but I would have told that thing to go to hell and gone out and got a bottle of Southern Comfort, or something.After Frank Henenlotter's original masterpiece, the man brings us the most entertaining anti-drug flick since Bood Freak. Enough disgusting gore, bad acting, and outrageous B-charm to satisfy any fans of Basket Case, even our pal, Kevin Van Hentenryck stops by for a spell, so, you know this psychedelic shin-dig is not to be missed. Too bad Henenlotter hasn't made more movies over the years, although, I do hear good things about his new one, Bad Biology. I can't say I've ever seen Frankenhooker, or that I approve of the Basket Case sequels, but as far as I've seen, Lightning has struck at least twice for Mr. Henenlotter. 9/10