Brain Dead

Brain Dead (1989)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (7,485 ratings)

Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as a… More

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed By
Adam Simon
Genres
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jun 1, 1989 Wide
On DVD
Sep 26, 2000
Concorde/New Horizons Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Scott Weinberg, DVDTalk.com

    Heck, I could sit through a movie a whole lot worse than this one just to see a pair of my favorite actors banter back and forth.

  • Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com

    Only the two Bills [Pullman and Paxton] keep this one from flat-lining

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    I felt cheated by its wearisome ploy of not decifering what was a dream and what was reality.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Christopher B


    Not the gory Peter Jackson film, but a great mindfuck film. Paxton and Pullman together at last with one of the writers from the Twilight Zone and Bud Cort. If this movie was a chick I would marry it (and then divorce it for my real wife...in case she reads this). Awesome!

  • Adam M


    This had to go on here!So gory and funny and who can forget the kung-fu vicar?!

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