Derek Winnert

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Brain Damage ** (1988, Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry) – Classic Movie Review 10,085

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter, of Basket Case (1982) fame, goes one step further into the realm of bad taste with this tale of a phallus-resembling parasite that locks into Brian (Rick Hearst)’s brain and injects him […]

Jul, 25

The Terminal Man **** (1974, George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 8645

Writer-director Mike Hodges’s fascinating 1974 Sci-Fi horror thriller The Terminal Man is based on the 1972 novel by Michael Crichton and stars George Segal as brainy computer scientist Harry Benson, who suffers from epilepsy and has […]

Jun, 27

The Man with Two Brains *** (1983, Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 6895

Director Carl Reiner’s likeable 1983 comedy stars Steve Martin in a rough but ready zany horror spoof about unhappily married neurosurgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin)’s love affair with a woman’s talking brain (voice of Sissy Spacek) that […]

Apr, 07

The Colossus of New York ** (1958, John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger) – Classic Movie Review 6107

In the crazy story by Willis Goldbeck, a genius scientist called Dr Jeremy ‘Jerry’ Spensser (Ross Martin) is killed in an accident and his brilliant brain surgeon father Dr William Spensser (Otto Kruger) places his life-supported brain in a […]

Oct, 18

The Devil Commands ***½ (1941, Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff) – Classic Movie Review 5643

Director Edward Dmytryk’s highly capable 1941 horror chiller is swiftly paced, short and amusing, with Boris Karloff grabbing the attention as Dr Julian Blair, even though he is typecast once again as a mad scientist […]

Jun, 20

The Brain [Vengeance] [A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer] ** (1962, Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Spenser, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 5608

The Brain belongs to a dead tycoon, though surgeons keep it going and it compels one of them, Dr Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck), to track the tycoon’s killer for Vengeance, as A Dead Man […]

Jun, 14

Donovan’s Brain *** (1953, Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Tom Powers) – Classic Movie Review 5604

Lew Ayres brings surprising conviction to a silly role as Dr Patrick Cory, a surgeon who keeps a plane-crash dead millionaire’s brain alive in his lab and becomes possessed by it himself, taking on the […]

Jun, 14

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