Feb 11, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Brain Damage is a 1988 American comedy horror film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It stars Rick Hearst in his debut acting role as Brian, a young man who becomes acquainted with a talking…
So what did you...
Well, I'm going to say there's one scene in this film that I think you're going to be thinking of as soon as I say, like, what scene jumped out at you, what scene stood out.
I think we should both say it at the same time, OK? So, right.
One, two, three, the blowjob scene.
LAUGHTER Yes,
absolutely.
Oh, man.
It's...
Obviously, I'm going to let the people know, like, this was my first time watching Brain Damage, right? I feel like when we started this podcast, there was a lot of, I weren't too familiar with the cult side of films, like B-movies, whatever, like, whatever they were used to call video nasties, like the old school ones, like straight to video, maybe.
Once the old people watched like me.
yeah and you could have like just shown me this movie like obviously we started with brain damage frank and hooker i think we did brain damage too and then now we're doing this
yeah
you could have just told me to watch this film and i'll be like oh yeah that's frank and a lot yeah and it isn't
It's weird as well that, like, in my head, this film is a lot more silly than it actually is.
I think I'd even said that to you when we were going, oh, it's a fun, silly one like Basket Case 2.
It's got silly moments.
because of Elmer.
Elmer makes it silly, and it's quite surreal.
That's what I think, anyway.
This is my third or fourth re-watch, and I was like, why do I always think this is going to be more silly than it is? Maybe because of Elmer.
So what did you...
Well, I'm going to say there's one scene in this film that I think you're going to be thinking of as soon as I say, like, what scene jumped out at you, what scene stood out.
I think we should both say it at the same time, OK? So, right.
One, two, three, the blowjob scene.
LAUGHTER Yes,
absolutely.
Oh, man.
It's...
Obviously, I'm going to let the people know, like, this was my first time watching Brain Damage, right? I feel like when we started this podcast, there was a lot of, I weren't too familiar with the cult side of films, like B-movies, whatever, like, whatever they were used to call video nasties, like the old school ones, like straight to video, maybe.
Once the old people watched like me.
yeah and you could have like just shown me this movie like obviously we started with brain damage frank and hooker i think we did brain damage too and then now we're doing this
yeah
you could have just told me to watch this film and i'll be like oh yeah that's frank and a lot yeah and it isn't
It's weird as well that, like, in my head, this film is a lot more silly than it actually is.
I think I'd even said that to you when we were going, oh, it's a fun, silly one like Basket Case 2.
It's got silly moments.
because of Elmer.
Elmer makes it silly, and it's quite surreal.
That's what I think, anyway.
This is my third or fourth re-watch, and I was like, why do I always think this is going to be more silly than it is? Maybe because of Elmer.
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