MathFiction: Brain Dead (Charles Beaumont (writer) / Adam Simon (director))

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Brain Dead (1990)

Charles Beaumont (writer) / Adam Simon (director)
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A nightmarish, reality bending horror movie about a brain surgeon whose services are obtained to retrieve corporate secrets from the mind of a mathematician who has become a homicidal maniac.

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Categories:

Genre	Horror,
Motif	Evil mathematicians, Anti-social Mathematicians, Insanity,
Topic
Medium	Films,

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