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Brain Dead
Synopsis
Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the return of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as a brilliant brain surgeon who agrees to perform an operation on a psychotic mathematician. This surgery, ostensibly, is to adjust the patient's attitude--and, incidentally, to unlock the corporate secrets secreted within the patient's brain. But as Pullman probes about, he begins experiencing first-hand the psycho's fevered, paranoic dreams. Pullman drifts farther and farther from reality, and the audience is implicitly invited to do the same. Bill Paxton also stars in this Roger Corman-style thriller, produced by Corman's daughter Julie.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Adam Simon,
  • Writer:
    Adam Simon,
  • Producer:
    Julie Corman,
  • Cinematographer:
    Rohn Schmidt,
  • Editor:
    Carol Oblath,
  • Cast:
    Bud Cort, Patricia Charbonneau, Bill Paxton, Bill Pullman, George Kennedy, Nicholas Pryor,
  • Associate Producer:
    Lynn Whitney,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Gregory Kent Simmons,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Thomas Patrick Smith,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Steve Gehrke, Harri James,
  • Boom Operator:
    Robert Perry,
  • Production Sound Mixer:
    Craig Felburg, Bill V. Robbins,
  • Set Dresser:
    Michael Soriano,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Geraint Bell, Joe Earle, Michael Clark,
  • Foley Recordist:
    Dennis Patterson,
  • Special Effects Makeup Artist:
    Barney Burman, Rob Burman,
  • Production Manager:
    Albert T. Dickerson III,
  • Sound Re-Recording Assistant:
    Camilla Mauritzson Skjaerbaek,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    Gaston Biraben, Christopher B. Reeves,
  • Hairstylist:
    Angela Moos,
  • Art Direction:
    Gilbert Mercier,
  • Set Decoration:
    Gene Serdena,
  • Screenplay:
    Charles Beaumont, Adam Simon,
  • Costume Design:
    Catherine Taieb,
  • Music:
    Peter Rotter,
  • Storyboard Artist:
    Dimitri Radoyce,
  • ADR Recordist:
    Dennis Patterson,
  • Wardrobe Assistant:
    Anne Tamrazi,
  • Sound Designer:
    Dennis Patterson,
  • Music Supervisor:
    Paul Di Franco,
  • Casting:
    Barbara Cohen, Leslie Litt,
  • Foley Artist:
    Catherine Harper, Cynthia Merrill,
  • Stunts:
    Merritt Yohnka, John Branagan,
  • Second Unit First Assistant Director:
    Benjamin Clark,
  • Second Unit Director:
    Philippe Browning,
  • Special Effects Assistant:
    Robyn Jacobs,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Angela Moos,
  • Assistant Hairstylist:
    Desne J. Holland,
  • Assistant Makeup Artist:
    Desne J. Holland,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Patrick J. Statham,
  • Foley Editor:
    Dennis Patterson,
  • Gaffer:
    Derrick Kolus,
  • Color Timer:
    Mato,
  • Production Design:
    Catherine Hardwicke,

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