Brain Damage

It's A Headache From Hell!

Apr. 15, 1988

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Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror

Keywords: Brain, Hallucination, Addiction, more

Overview:

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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Brian begins an unwilling symbiotic relationship with a malevolent leech-like brain-eating parasite called "Aylmer". Aylmer secretes a highly addictive drug-like hallucinogenic blue fluid into Brian's brain. Brian, hopelessly hooked on the fluid, is forced to do what Aylmer wants. In return for a steady supply of the drug, Brian must seek out human victims for Aylmer, so that he can eat their brains. All the while, though, as Brian adopts a heavily secluded life in his addiction to Aylmer's blue fluid, it begins to draw a rift in his relationship with his girlfriend Barbara and his brother Mike.

The film climaxes with Brian allowing Aylmer to kill Barbara, soon after which he is confronted by Morris and Martha, a middle aged couple who were Aylmer's previous hosts before he escaped and found Brian. Holding Brian at gun point, they retrieve Aylmer from his back, but Aylmer fights back and kills them both. But while Aylmer is feeding Brian his next dosage of blue fluid, Morris, who is still alive, fiercely grabs Aylmer and accidentally squeezes an overdose of the drug into Brian's brain, causing him severe agony as it goes in to overload.

Aylmer dies and Morris succumbs to his injuries while Brian, still in agony from the overdose, retrieves Morris's gun and shoots himself in the head after returning to the apartment he shares with Mike. The movie concludes with the police bursting in on Brian, not dead from the gunshot but now with a glowing hole in his head. Brian's ultimate fate is left unknown.

Director: Frank Henenlotter Gregory Lamberson

Writer: Gabriel Bartalos David Kindlon Frank Henenlotter

Genres: Comedy Drama Horror

Keywords: Brain Hallucination Addiction Junkyard Public Restroom Parasite Withdrawal High Subway Train Metaphor 1980s Hookup Euphoria Phallic Communal Shower

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