Review of Man with the Screaming Brain (2005) by Robin D — 16 Dec 2007

I was really hoping for a great film as it does star my favourite actor but this was a little disappointing. William Cole (Campbell) is on a business trip to Bulgaria with his wife, whose relationship is on the rocks as she craves more excitement than her husband can deliver.

Cole is a loud-mouthed American who expresses his disapproval at Bulgaria at every turn and speaks his mind on everything else before thinking which he soon pays the price for at the hands of a psychotic gypsy woman.

His taxi driver Yegor, an ex-KGB agent, also suffers at her hands too. A scientist who has perfected a way to fuse two minds together sees this as a perfect opportunity and fuses their brains inside Coles body.

Unfortunately each half controls only one side of the body and each one has seperate tastes and ideas and so begins the clash of Bulgaria and US as they strive to survive. When they find out they have a common enemy, they decide to track her down and get revenge for what she did to them.

It sounds promising and it is an interesting concept and does have its' funny moments, arguing with himself over what to drink to the confusion of the waitress taking his order and Ted Raimi's character rapping on the decks.

It does get ridiculous though when Coles wife dies at the hands of the gypsy and gets a brain transplant into a superstrong mobile dummy which goes on the rampage but this is B-movie territory and anything goes I guess! A good handful of special features on the DVD including a look at the comic the film was based on and a hidden extra where Bruce plays a prank on his co-writer by getting him arrested by Bulgarian police! An average film though.