(imdb)
THE
BRAIN-1988-A woman, Vicki is attacked by some tentacles after her
teddy bear has stigmata but it turns out to be an illusion. When she
thinks her boyfriend is being attacked, she accidentally kills him. Then she's pushed out a window by what looks like a brain. Some moron
pretend bad boy James (Tom Bresnahan) who has good grades but is a
wise ass joker gets what's coming to him when he's sent to the clinic
of Dr. Blake (REANIMATOR's David Gale), the host of TV's “Independent
Thinking”. James' girlfriend Janet (Cyndy Preston) is pretty smart
though. She doesn't want to have sex with him. Blake hooks James up
to a machine that is connected to a giant brain. He sees Blake's
female assistant topless and then a scary monster. Blake is using the
brain to hypnotize his TV audience. When the assistant complains, the
brain eats her. Meantime, James loses control of his car when a
tentacle comes out of the steering wheel. He goes crazy in a fast
food place and Blake's male assistant (George Buza) takes him back to
the institute where he sees Blake talking to the brain which now has
evil eyes and fangs! Janet and his friend Willie (Brent Pearson)
break into the place to save him. Poor Willie is eaten by the brain.
The assistant decapitates a cop but James & Janet get the blame.
Meanwhile, the brain gets bigger and its broadcasts make a woman
chainsaw her husband. The teen fugitives hide out in their high
school and have sex. When Janet watches a broadcast, she turns
against James. After a big car chase, he returns to the institute
where its discovered Blake is an alien trying to take over the world.
James & Janet confront the brain after it eats the male
assistant. It seems to end happily but…??
Satirical low budget
horror movie doesn't take itself too seriously and I think it was
influenced by THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS. The James character is not much of a hero though. Filmed in Canada by Ed Hunt (STARSHIP
INVASIONS).
Thanks for reading!
(themoviedb.org)
