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Brain Dead

Brain Dead1990

★5.685 minThrillerHorrorScience Fiction

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.

Director

Writer

Adam Simon Charles Beaumont

Score

Stars

Bill Pullman Bill Paxton Bud Cort

Cast35

Bill Pullman
as Dr. Rex Martin
Bill Paxton
as Jim Reston
Bud Cort
as Jack Halsey
Nicholas Pryor
as Man in Bloody White Suit / Ramsen / Ed Conklin
Patricia Charbonneau
as Dana Martin
George Kennedy
as Vance
Brian Brophy
as Ellis
D
David Sinaiko
as Berkovitch
Lee Arenberg
as Sacks
Andy Wood
as Brain Surgeon
Maud Winchester
as Crazy Anna
Lisa Moncure
as Board Member
J
Jon Kellam
as Board Member
Willie Garson
as Board Member
John Paxton
as Board Member
D
David Sklare
as Board Member
Cynthia Ettinger
as Nurse Anderson
S
Shannon Holt
as Toni
Vincent Foster
as Fred
Brent Hinkley
as Dewey
Kyle Gass
as Anaesthetist
Deirdre O'Connell
as Mrs. Halsey
A
Ann Vincent
as Halsey's Aunt
D
Dorothy Vincent
as Halsey's Aunt
D
Dean Robinson
as Valet
M
Mark Boothby
as Neighbor / Eunice Security Guard
S
Steve Ruggles
as Restaurant Manager
A
Adam Lima
as Bus Boy
J
Jesse Douglas
as Canteen Attendant
Patti Tippo
as Resident
Barney Burman
as Experimental Face
L
Laura McCorkindale
as Dancing Madwoman
R
Roscoe Pound
as Wrong Man
W
William Simon
as Doctor in Lobotomy Film
Alexander von Roon
as Self

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