Brain Damage
84 minutes,
USA (1988), 18
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(2.5 / 15 votes)
(2.5 / 15 votes)
In Frank Henenlotter's second comedy-horror, a personable alien parasite named Elmer embodies the highs and lows of addiction in Reagan-era New York
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Brain Damage: While so many other independent horror directors in the 1980s were content to churn out formulaic slasher flicks, Frank Henenlotter was staking out altogether darker and more twisted territories.
His alienated protagonists may have been killers, but they were also invested with a quirky New York edge, as though Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees were possessed by the spirit of Travis Bickle...
Read the Brain Damage full reviewHis alienated protagonists may have been killers, but they were also invested with a quirky New York edge, as though Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees were possessed by the spirit of Travis Bickle...
