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BrainWaves

  • 1982
  • PG
  • 1h 17min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
4.7/10
563
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BrainWaves (1982)
Ciencia FicciónTerrorThriller

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAfter a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman w... Leer todoAfter a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. However in her dreams, she lives ... Leer todoAfter a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband... Leer todo

  • Dirección
    • Ulli Lommel
  • Guionistas
    • Ulli Lommel
    • Henry R. Alexander
    • Suzanna Love
  • Elenco
    • Keir Dullea
    • Suzanna Love
    • Vera Miles
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    4.7/10
    563
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Ulli Lommel
    • Guionistas
      • Ulli Lommel
      • Henry R. Alexander
      • Suzanna Love
    • Elenco
      • Keir Dullea
      • Suzanna Love
      • Vera Miles
    • 10Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 13Opiniones de los críticos
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    Keir Dullea
    Keir Dullea
    • Julian Bedford
    Suzanna Love
    Suzanna Love
    • Kaylie Bedford
    Vera Miles
    Vera Miles
    • Marian Koonan
    Ryan Seitz
    • Danny Bedford
    Percy Rodrigues
    Percy Rodrigues
    • Dr. Robinson
    Paul Willson
    Paul Willson
    • Dr. Schroder
    Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis
    • Dr. Clavius
    Eve Brent
    Eve Brent
    • Miss Simpson
    • (as Eve Brent Ashe)
    Nicholas Love
    Nicholas Love
    • Willy Meiser
    Corinne Wahl
    • Leila Adams
    • (as Corinne Alphen)
    Phillipe Carr
    • Doctor
    Roger Burgraff
    • Speech Therapist
    Michael DeFrancisco
    • George
    Jason Fong
    • Grocery Clerk
    Diane Doucette
    • Therapy Nurse
    Jessie Gordon
    • ICU Nurse
    • Dirección
      • Ulli Lommel
    • Guionistas
      • Ulli Lommel
      • Henry R. Alexander
      • Suzanna Love
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    Rrrobert

    Glossy but slow

    Glossy looking but very slow and ponderous 'thriller'.

    A young accident victim receives a "transplant" of deceased accident victim's brainwaves in an innovative new procedure. Before long she begins to experience flashes of the other woman's memory that indicate the death was more than an accident, and which identify the perpetrator.

    The main problem with the film is that the plot is just too thin. The story is very straightforward, is predictable, and lacks any twists or surprises. It plays like an episode of television's "Quincy", or perhaps even "Murder She Wrote", but even those shows packed-in more twists and unexpected plot developments.

    Certainly it appears a lot of footage was shot in all sorts of interesting San Francisco locations and we are treated to a constant repetition of these establishing shots throughout the movie. The camera-angles do look nice, but the heavy use of these travelogue sequences slow the film's pace down to a deadly level. There is also a lot of unnecessary character development; we learn all about the lead couple and their son and the grandmother but these details are all irrelevant to the plot. And Vera Miles' character of the grandmother (named Marion!) is utterly superfluous. She gets one good dialogue scene (though it is irrelevant to the plot) and basically provides background chit-chat in the various family scenes.

    Many viewers may feel they need their brainwaves revived after sitting through this one.
    Michael_Elliott

    Disappointment from Lommel

    BrainWaves (1983)

    * 1/2 (out of 4)

    Rather confusing tale of a woman (Suzanna Love) who suffers brain damage after being struck by a car but a doctor (Tony Curtis) does a strange experiment on her, which appears to bring her back to normal. Soon after the experiment the young woman starts to have visions of another woman who was apparently murdered by someone with "X" tattoos on his wrist. This film comes off as somewhat of a disappointment after reading a few good reviews for it. The film runs a short 77-minutes but it felt much longer as the screenplay is all over the place and never really knows what to focus one. For starters, we have the mysterious woman who is murdered at the start of the movie. We then have Love's character who goes into a coma and then slowly starts to rebuild her life. We then have the nutty doctor doing the experiments. The film never really tells a straight story because it appears no one knew which story to really focus on. For a large portion of the film the murder is forgotten about as the woman tries to rebuild her life. We then get back into the murder aspect of the film but then everything about the coma takes a backseat and is pretty much forgotten. Love turns in another fine performance and makes the character interesting and worth watching. Vera Miles (PSYCHO) plays her mother and delivers a nice performance as well. On the DVD director Lommel talks about Curtis having a cocaine problem at the time of this movie being made and he also mentions that the actor didn't want any dialogue. This explains his horrible performance, which is all over the place and that includes the line delivery. It seems Curtis is extremely mad throughout the movie as he just comes off like he's ready to explode. There are a few nice technical moments including the death by electrocution but in the end I must admit that the film left me bored and unsatisfied. I'm really not sure who I'd recommend this movie to as it doesn't really work as a drama and the horror elements are so minor that most fans will be hitting the eject button early on.
    6FieCrier

    competent, watchable, but unremarkable medical thriller

    A woman is electrocuted in her bathtub by a man with a tattoo on his wrist. Surprisingly, there's some full frontal nudity in this scene.

    Later, a woman living in San Francisco, California is in a car accident and her brain is injured. An experimental procedure corrects her brain waves so that she is able to walk and talk again. However, she now has some memories that don't belong to her, including being electrocuted in a bathtub. Her husband is supportive and tries to help find out what is going on.

    Doesn't feel too much like a 1980s movie, apart from an old Space Invaders video game, and a Rubik's Cube.
    brandonsites1981

    * *1/2 out of 4.

    Woman (Suzanna Love) involved in a terrible accident nearly dies, but an experimental surgery saves her life. She is given brain waves from a recently deceased woman who was murdered, but as Love starts to feel better she feels sudden urges to find the woman's killer and to bring him to justice. Handsome looking, glossy thriller is well directed and well cast right down the line, but predictable and unmemorable.

    Rated R; Violence and Brief Nudity. Later edited to PG.
    10hasosch

    The Ed Wood Effect

    "Brainwaves" is an excellent horror movie. Its story, dramaturgy, cinematography and acting - and thus the main branches of the requirements of film theory - are not only satisfactorily, but very well fulfilled. However, Ulli Lommel - to whom we owe, amongst many other movies, also the brilliant "Tenderness of the Wolves" (1973) with the unforgettable Kurti Raab in the main role - is unfortunately subject to what I call the "Ed Wood Effect". This effect contains in blindly giving very low votes to a film director who once had the misfortune to become known as a B-picture maker.

    In Ulli Lommel's special case this Ed-Wood-Effect is the more astonishing as the B-pictures that he produced after "Bogeyman" (1979) are not worse than this movie which was a success around the world, although or because it was filmed in the style for which nowadays people like to criticize Lommel, i.e. the use of video cameras and the "journalistic" cinematography which imitates the eye movement of a visitor who would be by chance witness of the crime that is filmed. If Rosa Von Praunheim takes a video camera and walks around on the streets or in bars filming just what he sees, the voting of these products are in the average higher - probably because Von Praunheim's topic is the gay-scene, and who would dare making respect-less comments against such a controversial topics without risking to get criticized not for his real critique but for his alleged attitude against a minority? As one can see, the Ed Wood effect implies that one measures with different measuring systems. To cite only one example: The "Underworld" movies are as silly as Lommel's younger horror flicks - and not a iota better, although they are produced with a guessed amount of ten times as much money as Lommel's productions. Perhaps one would achieve a juster judgment, if Ulli Lommel would release his older German movies - especially the wonderful "Adolf and Marlene" with Kurt Raab, Margit Cartensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and others - on DVD. But it also could be that even these movies would fall immediately under the spell of the Ed Wood Effect.

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    • Trivia
      John Huston was originally casted in the role of Dr. Clavius, but he became ill, so after that there was talks with Rock Hudson, but he wasn't available. Eventually Tony Curtis was cast.
    • Errores
      At 0:24:35.
    • Citas

      [last lines]

      Dr. Schroder: The new arrivals: heart... liver... brain.

    • Versiones alternativas
      In 1983 the film was re-edited to secure a "PG" rating replacing the original "R" rating.
    • Conexiones
      Edited into Return of the Boogeyman (1994)

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      • agosto de 1983 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Brain Waves
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Hospital, 11201 Benton Street, Loma Linda, California, Estados Unidos(hospital location)
    • Productora
      • CinAmerica
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      • USD 500,000 (estimado)
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 3,111
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      • 1h 17min(77 min)
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    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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