The Brain Machine
Sometimes I'm too hard on these films,
other times I like them too much. This is one of the best examples of
a '70s era low budget 'horror' film. Filled with mundane direction,
no believable F/X, and bad lighting graced over cheap film. It
belonged on the dusty shelves of a VHS rental store or in the .99c
DVD bin at Dollar General. Which is pretty much where I found this
film.
This whole film boils down to a
super-duper mind reading computer and a group of people that are
being experimented on. The volunteers (or 'contestants as I like to
call them) are put through a series of test that make no sense.
Tempers flair, faith is tested, and mental stability is questioned.
And then things go to hell and everyone dies. Naturally the
Government is involved and has nefarious plans for this stupid
computer and washes the whole thing over in a cover-up.
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| Super Wicked Bad-Ass DVD cover!! |
The pacing of this film is dreadful and
all over the place. I saw the boom mic at least twice, and to be
honest I can always forgive mistakes like that and bad F/X. But could
you have the actors have more than 2 modes? It was either full on
over-acting or dull and monotonous line reading. Truth be told, I'm
not that surprised. The 2 biggest names attached to the film are
James Best and Gerald McRaney: 2 actors best known for a TV career of
slightly over-the-top characters.
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| Still wicked and way cooler than the actual film. |
Keep something in mind, while I was
watching this piece of crap there was a Godzilla marathon on ThiS TV
network. Can you imagine the discipline it takes to sit all the way
through this film when the Big G is on network TV?!?.......NO! No, I
don't think you can.
Sunday Funday: She's hairy in all the
wrong places.
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