Brain Dead is a 1990 horror/psychological thriller starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy and written by Charles Beaumont.

Plot

Bill Pullman plays a top neurosurgeon Dr. Rex Martin who is active in studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illnesses. High school friend Jim Reston, a successful businessman at Eunice requires Rex Martin's aid in reading the mind of John Halsey, a former genius mathematician who once worked for the company and is now a paranoid psychotic at a nearby asylum.

This surgery, performed by Rex Martin is to alter the patient's mental attitude in able to successfully unlock the corporate secrets secreted within the patient's brain. However as Martin, begins operating he starts to experience unusual heated paranoic dreams which his patient has been encountering. Martin floats farther and farther from reality, is caught between friendship and loyalty in his business

Cast

• Bill Pullman as Dr. Rex Martin
• Bill Paxton as Jim Reston
• Nicholas Pryor as Man in Bloody White Suit/Ramsen/Ed Conklin
• Patricia Charbonneau as Dana Martin
• George Kennedy as Vance
• Brian Brophy as Ellis
• David Sinaiko as Berkovitch
• Lee Arenberg
• Andy Wood as Brain Surgeon
• Maud Winchester as Crazy Anna
• Lisa Moncure as Board Member
• Jon Kellam as Board Member
• Willie Garson as Board Member
• John Paxton as Board Member
• David Sklare as Board Member..

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