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THE BRAIN

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▸ RELEASED 1 AUGUST

1988 | 15 | Blu-ray

▸ Director Ed Hunt

▸ Cast Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza

BLU-RAY DEBUT Cheesy ’50s sci-fi is filtered through Cronenbergian horror in this Canadian straight-to-video horror, whose forebears include Videodrome and The Blob.

Tom Bresnahan is pretty boy Jim, who’s sent to Dr Blakely of the Psychological Research Institute (’s David Gale) after one too many high school pranks. Blakely is working in league) to brainwash the population via his TV show – the ironically-named . Jim proves immune to the brain’s hypnotic influence, but can he convince anyone of the danger?

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