Brain Dead (1990)

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

Plot
Dr. Rex Martin is top neuro surgeon who is active in studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illnesses High school friend Jim Reston a successful businessman at Eunice requires Martin's aid in reaching the mind of John Halsy, a former genius mathematician who once worked for the company and is now a paranoid psychotic at a nearby asylum Dr. Martin's surgery is intended to successfully alter the patient's mental attitude either unlocking the corporate secrets within Halsey's brain or else leaving Halsey unable to accidentally share them with anyone else As Martin begins the surgical alter procedure he starts to experience the same paranoid dreams as Halsey's The episodes grow in intensity until it becomes unable to whether Martin is a doctor imagining he's the patient who succumbed to the delusion that he was a brain surgeon Martin floats further from reality caught between his business colleagues and his own humanity.

​Cast

 * Bill Pullman as Dr. Rex Martin
 * Bill Paxton as Jim Reston
 * Bud Cort as John Halsey
 * Nicholas Pryor as Man in Bloody White Suit/Ed Conklin
 * Patricia Charbonneau as Dana Martin
 * George Kennedy as Vance
 * Brian Brophy as Ellis
 * David Sinaiko as Berkovitch
 * Andy Wood as Brain Surgeon
 * Maud Winchester as Crazy Anna

Production
In the late 1980s, Julie Corman got summer interns to go through several hundred old scripts The best one they discovered was written by Charles Beaumont of Roger Corman in the 1960s Adam Simon liked it and updated it for modern times.​