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Brain Damage

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Brain Damage
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R,1hr 29min
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1988
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Synapse Video
Synopsis: Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter explores another bizarre symbiotic human-monster relationship in this surreal horror comedy about a young man named Brian (Rick Herbst) who emerges from a night of bizarre hallucinations to find a jovial talking slug attached to his body. The creature, a brain-eating parasite called an "Aylmer" (but who prefers the simpler handle "Elmer") came calling after abandoning his former companions -- a European couple who tried to wean him from human brains by supplying ... Full Synopsis
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Frank Henenlotter's follow-up to his 1982 classic Basket Case is another bizarre horror tale that pushes the comedic envelope while dishing out enough hyper-hallucinogenic imagery to merit its own cult status among late-'80s blood-spattered cinema. With a crooning, homicidal parasite and a drug-addled average Joe as its leads, Brain Damage does more than hearken back to the director's previous film, ... Full Review
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Morris Ackerman
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