Brain Damage

And I guess soon or around this time, or I'm not exactly sure, but it should be soon.

You guys could be going and listening to my episode on E.T. I've also covered Re-Animator and Brain Damage recently.

Some other ones like Monkey Shines.

which was interesting.

Raphael Jovine says...

Brain damage meets Titane at a possession party in this story about a young woman who gets impregnated with a diabolic alien demonic species that pushes her to murder people.

Four stars.

Slig001 says the relationship between mother and baby explored with the help of buckets and buckets of blood.

And basically it speaks like that to her.

The parasite that's in her belly speaks like that to her.

And I guess it's very much like brain damage in that sense isn't it

yeah definitely yeah yeah there was definitely a lot of like a voice that you wouldn't expect that almost kind of made it a bit comical

That, that, uh, Hanlon Lauder never quite achieved again, except partially in this movie, Frank and a little bit in some of his other films,

but maybe in like brain damage, I think he's still kind of carried over some of that as well.

Yeah, so – But Best Case really is – it's not really a movie about monsters.

It's a movie about how gritty and depressing New York in the 70s was.

channeling Buddy Holly.

Some still say he still is Buddy Holly.

It was before the brain damage.

Anyway, after the accident, Jeffrey is watching the news, and they're talking about how his fiancée is just one big jigsaw puzzle.

I assume you've seen Basket Case, Tony.

Absolutely, and another one which I considered as well doing for this was Brain Damage.

Have you guys checked out Brain Damage yet? Yeah.

No

that's on my

that.

The effects guy is, was his handle on his go-to guy.

He was with him for all the, the basket case movies for brain damage and for this.

Nightmare 4 came out.

One of our personal favorites, Brain Damage, came out.

uh phantasm 2 okay came out in 88 uh and then dead heat and which we also just uh recently covered came out um i mean there's all there's maniac cop um pumpkin head the first pumpkin head came out serpent in a rainbow a good year for horror yeah good good good shit

um but i did finally watch the first hellraiser

[laughs] Mm.

It's either that or brain damage from there, so-

Oh, that would've been-

No

Oh, then-

[laughs]

I'm, then I gotta take Creature Feature or Brain Damage because-

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

And in my vein particular where I, I live, which is horror, you also have Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Phantasm II, and Brain Damage.

[smacks lips] Sweet.

That was a good year.

That was a good year.

You recently reviewed Brain Damage with Pippin, did you not?

Uh, no.

No, you guys did Pieces, didn't you? [laughs]

they dress it very well.

Another piece of trivia I wanted to mention is in the movie Brain Damage, there's a cameo from Kevin Van Hettenbrink in a scene on the train as Dwayne carrying the basket.

Really? he's a passenger gets on the train sits opposite the main characters of the movie and he's carrying the basket and he just stares at them for a bit and then he then he walks off and that's his cameo

it's dwayne oh bless him yeah they did make a basket case three and a half special feature that was on my blu-ray yeah which is Kevin now, or very recently, still living in the woods with a basket.

And I don't know whether it's because of its sort of, I guess, origin story or like community around it, It's super, super fascinating.

And I would love to watch more Frank Henenlotter movies.

Definitely we have to see Basket Case 2 and Frankenhooker and Brain Damage.

They all sound fascinating.

Totally.

Shout out to special makeup and gore effects by Gabe Bartalos, who also worked with him on Basket Case 2 and this other movie called Brain Damage.

And there are some...

We'll have to talk about some of the crazy special effects and makeup.