Bill Paxton Movie:

Editorial Review:
Adam Simon (Carnosaur) made his directoral debut with this mind game of a movie. Based on a decades-old screenplay by former Twilight Zone contributor Charles Beaumont, Simon dusted off and updated the script about an experimental brain researcher (Bill Pullman) who agrees to dig into the gray matter of a schizophrenic scientist (Bud Cort), only to fall prey to his patient's psychosis. Or maybe he's just plain nuts. Spiced with a bizarre sense of humor (Pullman wrestles over a brain specimen in a jar with a homeless man who tries to grab it: "That's my brain!"), Pullman's ordeal takes one hairpin turn after another as he becomes lost in a maze of alternate realities, no longer able to sort fantasy from reality or paranoia from persecution. This clever puzzle of a film overcomes low-budget restrictions with a deviously inventive story that echoes Brazil and quotes from The Manchurian Candidate and North by Northwest. Bill Paxton costars as a smarmy corporate manipulator with slicked back hair and a get-rich-quick scheme for a chain of brain surgery boutiques ("The New You, by Eunice!"), and George Kennedy is his bottom-line boss. Director Simon may be most famous for playing himself in a jokey cameo in Robert Altman's The Player. --Sean Axmaker

Paranoia [Region 2] Reviews:
Nicely Done
2008-02-14 - Loved this film.Could get a bit confusing at times but thats what made it so good.It all makes sense eventually dont worry :).

Great tale of madness
2006-08-06 - 4-1/2 Stars. I love this movie. Found myself so wrapped up in it, trying to figure out what is real and what is fantasy. This movie keeps you guessing and is full of surprises.

I think the kid may be mistaken
2005-11-25 - I beleive this "Braindead" is actually Peter Jackson's "Dead-Alive," and not the Pullman/Paxton picture. It was rumored for a possible re-release years ago (and has remained in several gorehounds' minds and discussion boards since), and I believe this may be it. Afterall, who really cares about that other movie? I myself have written a few letters and signed a few petitions to get an un-cut Region 1 version of this film. I checked around a few other places, and there aren't any online stores other than amazon that I could find that have this title listed. And until we get a box art image or a plot/cast overview, I guess we'll just have to wait to see what this item really is. The only other site that has this listed is a forum, and it is under the "rumor" category--that site being [...].

That being said, if it is the case that this is Jackson's film, my rating is a 4. If it is Jackson's film and un-cut, or at least with special features including deleted scenes, I stand by my original five star rating. If it is anything other than those two options, I give it a one star rating. Yeah that's right. Thank you.

I loved this movie! Not very violent- but good!
2005-11-06 - It is a great movie! You'll love it!
Note: Amazon Marked it wrong it's rated "PG-13"
They also messed up on "Pearl Harbor" too. That's "PG-13"

watch it!
2004-09-15 - This has been a favorite of mine for years. It stars Bill Pullman and Bud Cort. I can not even go into deatail explaining this because it is a very hard to explain movie.

It's roughly about a scientist who studied brains for a living and soon becomes the brain that is being studied. Without knowing this the movie goes into super-twist mode. It is definitely a movie that will take a few watches to fully understand. A must see.