31 Days of Horror 2014 - Film #1: Brain Damage
Brain Damage (Frank Henenlotter 1988)
What a nice, weird way to start off this year’s month long horror movie marathon. I love Frank Henenlotter and I don’t know how this movie had eluded me all these years, since I’ve seen and loved all of his other movies, even the Basket Case sequels that people seem to hate. Brain Damage is a continuation of Henenlotter’s themes on bodily mutations and with weird killer puppets, as seen in the Basket Case trilogy. Here, we see a young man named Brian who is infected by a sort of giant parasite thing. The thing can speak English and it’s named Aylmer, and he’s a pretty cute little guy.
