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Brain Damage (La maledizione di Elmer)

Titolo originale: Brain Damage
  • 1988
  • VM14
  • 1h 24min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,5/10
14.157
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Rick Hearst in Brain Damage (La maledizione di Elmer) (1988)
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
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Body HorrorDark ComedyComedyHorrorSci-Fi

Un giovane scopre che una mostruosa creatura si è attaccata alla base del suo cervello, iniettando una sostanza con effetti euforici in cambio di vittime umane.Un giovane scopre che una mostruosa creatura si è attaccata alla base del suo cervello, iniettando una sostanza con effetti euforici in cambio di vittime umane.Un giovane scopre che una mostruosa creatura si è attaccata alla base del suo cervello, iniettando una sostanza con effetti euforici in cambio di vittime umane.

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    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Star
    • Rick Hearst
    • Gordon MacDonald
    • Jennifer Lowry
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,5/10
    14.157
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Frank Henenlotter
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Frank Henenlotter
    • Star
      • Rick Hearst
      • Gordon MacDonald
      • Jennifer Lowry
    • 85Recensioni degli utenti
    • 126Recensioni della critica
    • 61Metascore
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    Rick Hearst
    Rick Hearst
    • Brian
    • (as Rick Herbst)
    Gordon MacDonald
    • Mike
    Jennifer Lowry
    Jennifer Lowry
    • Barbara
    Theo Barnes
    Theo Barnes
    • Morris
    Lucille Saint-Peter
    Lucille Saint-Peter
    • Martha
    Vicki Darnell
    Vicki Darnell
    • Blonde in Hell
    Joseph Gonzalez
    Joseph Gonzalez
    • Guy in Shower
    • (as Joe Gonzales)
    Bradlee Rhodes
    Bradlee Rhodes
    • Night Watchman
    Michael Bishop
    Michael Bishop
    • Toilet Victim
    Beverly Bonner
    Beverly Bonner
    • Neighbor
    Ari M. Roussimoff
    • Biker
    • (as Ari Roussimoff)
    Michael Rubenstein
    • Bum in Alley
    Angel Figueroa
    • Junkie
    John Reichert
    • Policeman
    Don Henenlotter
    • Policeman
    Kenneth Packard
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    Artemis Pizarro
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    • Mohawked Punk
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    7PredragReviews

    Feed your head.

    Are you tired of the sameness of Hollywood's over-priced commercialized dross? Check out Mr. Henenlotter's work today. This is a weird film, but in a good way. Elmer is a parasite who will get you high in exchange for brains. The problem was the old people was feeding him animals brain, so Elmer decide to find a new host. The young man was getting so high that he didn't know what Elmer was up to. Elmer didn't care just as he was getting human brains.

    The film is also a moral warning about the effects of drugs - they make you feel great at first but before long you're addicted to them, you've screwed your life up and you'll do literally anything to get the fluids you're now dependent on. A very black form of comedy with a serious edge to it, and the inner-city locations provide an excellent atmosphere. Very original, with good writing, and neat visuals for such a low budget.

    Overall rating: 7 out of 10.
    10siektwo

    One of my alltime favs!

    This is one of my alltime favorites of the horror genre! A great movie to watch.

    What i like about this movie is the underlying drug related messages throughout. It's like watching requiem for a dream almost in that drug-related sense.

    I don't need to tell much about the plot, since i'm sure many have already explained it.

    I am a hardcore horror fan through and through, and i will just say that this movie rocks. It's got a great and interesting story, some awesome gore scenes and some hilarious comedy as well. It's not scary, but it is a gory, funny, bizarre, and original movie that isn't even close to being like anything else out there...you gotta see it to believe it.

    10 out of 10 (based on a horror fan's review)
    lor_

    Effective cult horror

    My review was written in April 1988 after a screening at Cine 42 on Manhattan's 42nd St.

    "Brain Damage" is an overly ambitious but nonetheless rewarding low-budget horror film using the monster genre as a timely metaphor for drug addiction and its ills.

    Unfortunately, pic has been poorly promoted and instead of a careful launch it preemed at the sleziest theater on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

    Filmmaker Frank Henenlotter showed promise with his 1982 pic (shot in 16 mm) "Basket Case", with many of his collaborators encoroing on this 35mm followup, which includes a funny camro (with basket) byh the first pic's lead Kevin Van Hentenryck.

    Rick Herbst stars as Brian, a youngster who's bitten by Elmer the Parasite (film's working title), a centuries-old eel-like monstr being kept alive on animal brains by goofball neighbors Theo Barnes and Lucille Saint-Peter. As Brian quickly learns, Elmer gives his host a periodic jolt of "juice", blue fluid injectged into the brain which provides a psychedelic high.

    Brian becomes addicted to this pleasure and carrying Elmer around under his shirt gives the monster access to human victims, whose brains Elmer dines upon. Pic climaxes when Elve4r goes after the heroine, Brian's pal Barbara (Jennifer Lowry).

    At every step, Henenlotter makes clear the analogy between Brian's plight and drug addiction, including going cold turkey and radical behavior changes as a tipoff to family (Brian's brother Mike, played by Gordon MacDonald) and friends, etc. Horror format is useful in this regard, heavily leavened by outbreaks of black humor.

    Elmer, created by Gabe Bartalos and David Kindlon, is an admirable achievementg, a mobile puppet-like monstr that pays homage to films ranging from "Fiend Withoutg a Face" to "The TIngle". With a wisecracking voice (uncredited, but sounding like tv horror movie host Zacherly) and cute eytes, Elmer is funny as well as scary in context.

    Acting is over-the-top and film could have benefited from the casting of name talent in order to cross over to mainstream audiences with its timely thematics. As it is, Henenlotter, cinematograher Bruce Torbe and their team have maintained a harsh, cheap, underground look that fis the picture's cult ambitions. Overuse of blue filters is one drawback, however. Keyboards musical score by Gus Russo and Clutch Reiser is extremely effective.
    8TheMarwood

    Henenlotter's Best

    The first 10 minutes of Brain Damage are awful and hard to watch, as an elderly couple are trashing their apartment looking for Alymer and then we get an overlong hallucination from our main character Brian. Then we are introduced to the Zacherle voiced parasitic Alymer, with a show stopping "hi" and the film just goes bonkers and never stops. There's nothing quite like Brain Damage, a tale of a young man who gets addicted to the intoxicant that a parasitic creature injects into his brain and while running about hallucinating, Alymer feeds on unsuspecting victims brains. It's hilariously gory and thanks to the uncut version finally on the market, the brain removing fellatio sequence is intact in its full ridiculous glory. Henenlotter was firing on all cylinders while making this classic B masterpiece.
    10paintedwallpaper

    campy original horror at its best.

    you know, i just went to see House of Wax the other day, and ten years after scream came out why are the same boring plots with the same boring characters doing the same stupid mistakes our only option for horror these days.

    i suggest going back 20 years to the 70's and 80's if you want to find some great horror. horror then was low budget but imaginative. the movies had interesting story lines and were not shy about blood and gore. a good stepping stone for this sub-genre is one of my current favorites, Brain Damage. It starts off on a very surreal note, but mixes its strangeness with an accurate portrayal of a young man hopelessly addicted to the mother of all drugs. his dealer is perhaps the most unique little monster in all of horror, Aylmer (pronounced "elmer").

    Aylmer is a purple cucumber shaped alien with a tiny smiling face and a soft warm voice. he finds a host, and injects his host with a blue liquid that comes out of one of Aylmer's fangs. this "brain juice" jacks up its host into a hullucionary state. while the host is in la-la land, Aylmer makes a victim of whoever the host comes in contact with, eating the victims brains.

    as vile as all that sounds, it is hard to see Aylmer as evil. he is just such a nice little guy. plus he is unique in his appearance, personality, and attacks, which all go a long way with me in a modern world of horror villains pushed off an assembly line.

    this movie is not winning an Oscar. it is strange and campy and violent. but if that is what you desire in a film, this hidden gem may become one of your favorites!

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      During the fellatio scene, the crew walked out on the production refusing to take part. A similar incident happened during the shooting of Basket Case (1982).
    • Blooper
      When Brian wakes up bloody, the blood on his left hand disappears and reappears between shots.
    • Citazioni

      Aylmer: This is the start of your new life Brian, a life full of colors, music,light and euphoria. A life without pain, or hurt or suffering.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      In the end titles, listed under "Historical Research" is BABE WOZENTHAL. According Frank Henenlotter on the DVD's commentary, this was a joke about Jerry Lewis in "The Errand Boy."
    • Versioni alternative
      Paramount video release deletes the gory nightclub fellatio and ear-pulling scenes to avoid an 'X' rating.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Cinemassacre's Monster Madness: Brain Damage (2010)
    • Colonne sonore
      Corruption
      by J. Calder, A. Boston, J.E. Garnett, B. Elsey, & B. Burton

      Performed by The Swimming Pool Q's

      Courtesy of Irving Music, Inc.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 22 aprile 1988 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • New York, New York, Stati Uniti
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Palisades Partners
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      • 900.000 USD (previsto)
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