Brain Damage Page #2

Synopsis: A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain. The brain feeds the guy a narcotic substance in exchange for his unwilling assistance in obtaining the brains of innocent victims for sustenance. This turns into a tour of circa-1980s underground NYC clubs, backlots, and other seedy locations. One scene features the band Swimming Pool Cues playing the song "Corruption."
 
IMDB:
6.7
R
Year:
1988
84 min
335 Views


a little bit light-headed.

"Light-headed"!

Brian, are you clean yet?

- Do you hear me?

- Huh?

It's Barbara.

We have a date tonight, remember?

Oh, yeah, sure. I'll be right out.

Things are getting

really weird around here.

I'm going through some

pretty intense changes,

and I need to be by myself for a while.

- Why? What's happened?

- I see things differently now.

- You mean us?

- Oh, everything.

It just doesn't last very long.

See, right now, for instance,

everything looks normal.

See? No trails.

- "No trails"?

- None.

But sometimes...

sometimes I can see completely.

Sometimes everything glows

with a different kind of light.

I can touch an object

and listen to the sound of its color.

I can hear voices and music

in the flicker of a match.

I can look into a mirror

and see a thousand different faces

staring back at me.

I can turn night into day

or watch the darkness shine,

and I don't even have to open my eyes.

You're on drugs, right?

Nothing that simple.

Then what?

I'm trying to understand you, Brian.

But I feel like I'm talking to a stranger.

Two months ago,

you wanted us to live together.

Now you're telling me you haven't called

because of lights and colors,

and I just don't understand.

Okay, okay, I'll try to explain it,

but I doubt you're going to believe me.

Remember the night you and Mike

went to the concert?

Well, when I woke up I... Ow!

Um, I don't think

I should explain it right now.

- Why not?

- It won't let me.

- What won't let you?

- I can't tell you that.

It's someone else, isn't it?

You're seeing someone else.

- Sort of. Ow!

- "Sort of"! What do you mean by "sort of"?

Look, I got an itch.

I can't talk about it right now.

It's not fair

to keep me guessing like this.

If you're seeing someone else,

if you want to end it between us,

can't you just tell me?

Uh, uh, I just need some time.

And what am I supposed to do

in the meantime?

Sit at home and wait

for things to get back to normal?

Or should I go out

and find someone else too?

I'm not hungry.

- Ten minutes ago you were starving.

- Yeah, but...

- What are you doing?

- I... I don't feel so good.

- Calm down, Brian.

- I... I gotta go.

"Go"? You can't just...

Brian! Wait!

Great.

I need it. I need it now.

I need it.

Now. Now, come on.

Hey! Hey!

I love your suit

- Wow, you're beautiful!

- Huh?

- Beautiful.

- You're f***ed up, aren't you?

Wanna dance?

# You find your best friend

floating in a vat

# Down at the sewage plant

# It never made the papers,

some things just can't... #

Other people gotta use it.

Let's go!

Come on. Let's go.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, I gotcha.

- Uh-huh.

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Frank Henenlotter

Frank Henenlotter (born August 29, 1950 in New York City), is an American screenwriter, film director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker (rather than horror). "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films. Exploitation films have an attitude more than anything – an attitude that you don’t find with mainstream Hollywood productions. They’re a little ruder, a little raunchier, they deal with material people don’t usually touch on, whether it’s sex or drugs or rock and roll." more…

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