The Man with the Screaming Brain

There are a lot of movies that are made each year with very successful actors that just fall through the cracks and most people never hear of them or they just aren't good enough for studios to advertise for. This movie starring Bruce Campbell falls into the category of the studio trying to forget that they even put money into it and hopes that it gets swept under the rug. With a title like The Man with the Screaming Brain you know that there is going to be a lot of tongue in cheek humor, but once it starts trying to be like the old B-movies from the 1950s, 60s or 70s it loses any hope of being watchable. A businessman in Eastern Europe is attacked by a crazed Gypsy and is killed along side his cab driver, then an experimental surgery is performed to combine the brains so that the businessman can survive. This film is a combination of two other movies and just doesn't do it successfully; the two films are Steve Martin's All of Me and the 1972 classic The Thing with Two Heads. Campbell does a bad impression of Martin and unfortunately the story doesn't help when it drags its feet every step of the way. This movie shows how low budget it really is, the jokes aren't funny and they're as stale as last years bread, the sets are cheap and they don't even try to cover it up.
It was hard to sit through this film knowing that Campbell could do so much better, with all the great characters that he has fleshed out years its amazing that he went ahead with it, even though he wrote this story. I had hoped that I would enjoy this film, I like a lot of the B-movies that were made in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and this one gives the impression that it could be good. But regrettably it falls short of being anywhere near as enjoyable as those classics.