Man with the Screaming Brain

2005 "He's losing their minds"
5.4| 1h30m| NR| en
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The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
zachdonaldson This movie challenges the viewer to step out of their comfort zone and look into the deep and complex world of consumerism. It's a constant battle of consumerism and communism coming together to fight the common enemy of the gypsies. If you don't like this movie you also probably don't like puppies, vodka and the American dream. 10/10 any day , everyday.
Leofwine_draca I consider myself a fan of Bruce Campbell. Hell, the man was good enough to send me his autograph years back, I have his autobiography, and love his early work in the EVIL DEAD films and the like. Sadly, though, the last fifteen years of his career has been marred by his insistence on churning out these cheap, only mildly amusing B-movies to satisfy his fans.MY NAME IS BRUCE was one such movie, but MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN is even worse. It's a real cheapie, shot in Bulgaria and co-starring fan favourites like Stacy Keach and Ted Raimi, but even so it isn't very funny. Campbell - who we must apportion blame to, given that he also wrote and directed the thing - plays a rich businessman who has the brain of a Russian cab driver implanted into his own.There's no more plot to it than that, and indeed not much of anything at all. I love Raimi's and Keach's work, but the material they're given here is very tame and weak. The silly android stuff I could have done without. There's very little in the way of action or genre tropes, but a whole lot of talk and humour which feels more than a little forced. You'd have to be in a very accepting frame of mind to enjoy this one. Watch out for Bulgarian actor Raicho Vasilev, of IN HELL and SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA fame, who appears in a cameo.
Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, I will be blunt and direct. What kept this movie afloat was the presence of Bruce Campbell.The story of the movie was quite bad, and so very, very cheesy. Although there were some moments that were quite funny, but the story and plot was bad.The acting was adequate, and Bruce Campbell was a very dominant figure in the movie. It was physically painful to watch Ted Raimi goof around in this movie. But in general, the rest of the cast did an okay job with their roles.Now, I know that Bruce Campbell is a cult in himself, but this movie didn't really work for me. It was just too goofy and cheesy. I was sort of disappointed with this movie. Sure, I made it through the entire movie, only because of Bruce Campbell.If you are a HUGE Campbell fan, then you'll love this, of that I am quite sure.
sol (Some Spoilers) It took some 19 years for Bruce Campbell to finally put his masterpiece " Man with the Screaming Brain" on the screen. But Campbell had to alter his story by having it, due to financial problems, take place in Sofia Bulgaria not where he initially wanted it to be filmed in Los Angeles California.In the film Burce Campbell plays US pharmaceutical tycoon Willian Cole who travels together with his spoiled rotten wife Jackie, Antoinette Byron,to the former Communist Republic of Bulgaria. It's there that William wants to help finance Bulgaria's almost non-existent mass transportation system.It's poor William's misfortune to get involved with both Gypsy woman Tatoya, Tamara Gorski, and her ex-boyfriend Yegor, Valdimir Kolev, an ex-KGB taxi driver. The two, William & Yegor, will unwittingly end up shearing their brains, inside William's skull,because of Tatoya's jealousy and vindictiveness.After Tatoya murders both William and Yegor their bodies are delivered to mad scientist Dr. Ivan Ivanowitch Ivanov, Stacy Keach, by his loyal assistant Pavel, Ted Raimi, to have their brains experimented with. Dr. Ivanov has this theory in that two heads are better then one. And now with the material, William & Yegor, available to him Dr. Ivanov at last is finally going to prove it. What Dr. Ivanov is going to sadly find out is that by fusing the two heads, or brains, together their brain waves will overlap and cause them to not only malfunction but turn against each other!William with Yegor's right lobe fused into his damaged brain is out to find Tatoya and make her pay for the damage she caused both him and Yegor. Yegor for his part is stuck in William's head who's likes and dislikes, in both food and drink, are totally opposite to his own. This causes a lot of tension and hostility between the two brains in them fighting for control of William's body!Things get even more screwed up when Jackie finding out that Tatoya murdered her husband William confront her in the dangerous and high crime section of Bravoda call Gypsy Town and ends up being murdered herself. Brought back to Dr. Ivanov by his assistant Pavel it's determined, with no body available,to plant Jackie's brain inside of an experimental robot that Pavel's been working on. The operation is a rousing success but the only drawback is that Jackie, with her brain inside the robot, has to have her brain recharged every few hours! Or, like a real brain lacking oxygen, she'll die together with the robot's batteries.Combination 1930's-like screw-ball comedy and horror flick with both William & Yegor turning the Bulgarian town of Bravoda upside down in trying to find Tatoya and make her pay, with her life, for the sad state of existence she put them both into. ***SPOILER ALERT*** It's Dr. Ivanov who in fact saves the day by discovering how to keep the two brains from fighting, and thus cooperating, with each other! This is done by him instead of fusing the brains together Dr. Ivanov keep them independent by implanting a neutralizing cell wall in between the two uncooperative globs of gray matter.