HoopTober 8
Part XXVIII: Brain Dead (2/2 Birth Year)
The most-liked review for this film on Letterboxd is somebody complaining that it is not Peter Jackson's Braindead AKA Dead Alive from 1992...
No, it isn't future Hobbit Lord's gorefest spectacle.
Instead it's a strange psychological thriller, born from a script that was in a heap of un-produced Roger Corman films, dating back to the '60s, picked up by his wife Julie, and directed by future Spielberg-rivalling Carnosaur maestro Adam Simon.
Everything points to it being a shoddy B-movie, and in some respects it is, but like the best of them, it's a film that has a lot of fun with it's internal logic, twisting and turning through it's story, yanking…