Brain Damage

Part one of saturday night's double feature.

Oh man, if I had known that this was another offering from Frankenhooker auteur Frank Henenlotter (I just realized how many letters of his name are in that title!), I would have been much more forgiving of the initial badly-acted scenes.

This movie became classic the instant Aylmer, a purple parasitic brainstem (hmm, sounds like a college drink) climbs up on the main character's shoulder and says hello in his (its?) silky voice. The movie has huge anti-drug overtones: Aylmer injects super-addicitive blue liquid into his host's spinal cord which causes them to hallucinate (colors!) while he kills (other) people. Aylmer generally lives in whats-his-name's shirt, though occasionally he ventures down south, leading up to the infamous 'fellatio scene' which is truly what puts this movie on the map.

Alymer carries the movie, leaving you uncaring about the human cast (much as he/it is). I heartily recommend subjecting an unsuspecting victim to this movie.

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Brain Damage (IMDB)

Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [****_]

Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]