Film Information
After altering the landscape of trash-horror history with Basket Case and Frankenhooker, the brilliant Frank Henenlotter unleashed Brain Damage, his ultimate Grimm’s Fairy Tale for perverted adults. The film is hilarious, unsettling, and jam-packed with bad taste gags that would probably cause John Waters to reassess his life’s work.
This is a slimy, grimy, gore-soaked slice-of-NYC-life that follows a poor schmo who is addicted to a drug called Aylmer. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Aylmer is a mutant penis monster who needs to eat human brains in order survive.
Reviews
"Brain Damage is rather joyfully tasteless, one of the biggest reasons the film continues to be a cult favorite of true fans of indie horror. While the film is generally classified as horror, this is likely considered to be on the lighter end of it with a pervasive dark humor evident throughout the film that lightens the edges just a touch and actually makes it all feel that much more demented." – The Independent Critic
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