BrainDamage

What a hilarious film this is. There are basically 2 main characters in the film. One is Aylmer, a 12 inch worm who needs to feed on brains (preferably human) to survive. The other is Brian, a young man who becomes addicted to a drug that Aylmer injects into his brain. During this drugged state, Aylmer uses Brian as a host to find victims so that he can consume their brains.

The special effects are decent, especially during the kill scenes. Unfortunately, most of the death scenes are very repetitive. They consist of Aylmer leaping from some hidden location and attaching himself to a victim’s forehead, where he munches through their skull into their brain whilst they flop about in agony. There is one notable exception however:

In the film’s best sequence, Brian has just been drugged by Aylmer. He stumbles into a club suitably named “Hell”. There he meets a pretty but incautious hooker. They dance for a while. Brian, stoned out of his mind, is lured by the girl into the club’s basement. Brian begins to pass out and the hooker leans him up against a wall. She grabs Brian’s crotch and remarks “feels like you got a real monster in there” not knowing of course that the “monster” is in fact Aylmer hiding in Brian’s crotch area. Excited, the girl decides to perform oral sex on Brian. She soon gets more than she bargains for. She gets down on her knees, unzips Brian’s pants, and just as she opens her mouth, Aylmer burst from the pants and into the girl’s mouth. Aylmer forces himself down the girl’s throat, and she basically chokes to death as Aylmer burrows through the back of her throat into her skull.

After that the rest of the film is a bit of a let down (how could it not be?) but there are still some good sequences, including one scene where Brian pulls his own brains out through one of his ears (very gory). The acting throughout the film is quite campy, and the music is actually very good.

The ending is rather down beat as virtually every character in the film dies, with the exception of Brian’s room mate brother. There are also very few like-able characters in the film. Vicki Darnell, who plays the hooker, is one of the few sympathetic (!) characters in the film. Props to her for putting up with this perverted director’s crap, as I’ve heard shooting the scene mentioned above was a nightmare for the actors involved.

Overall it it’s a pretty crazy and enjoyable film.

From here: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur39201974/