pesic-1 This is one of Campbell's best films, that actually benefits from the low budget. The casting is good, the production team is competent, Bulgaria is... Bulgaria. However, there are moments when direction becomes underwhelming or when the script shows certain weaknesses. With a better director and after a re-write of the script the film could have become a classic. Nevertheless, it is a very entertaining film that knows exactly what it is, and it never gets boring. One of my personal objections is that the mad scientist isn't really that mad, and that his laboratory looks unbelievably dull. Also, his assistant is not given enough to do in the film, which is a shame. Ultimately the Russian guy steals the show, and it doesn't feel that much like a Bruce Campbell film. Interestingly enough, at times Campbell looks like John Cleese, which is weird.

bazmitch23 I'm an Evil Dead fan and a few years ago, I ordered this DVD from America. The first time I watched it, I thought "Yeah, it was........ good. I guess." I watched it again over and over and every time I did, my love for this film decreased. It's so boring and unfunny. It's really slow and nothing exciting or memorable happens in it. Even if you are a Bruce fan, you might not like it.The jokes have been done before. Ted Raimi's character is not funny. He speaks in rapper talk. His scenes are just dull. We get some slapstick from Bruce that is also unfunny. He does reference Evil Dead here and now, but you'll be yawning so much, you won't care.Because this is a TV movie, it's really cheap. The music and editing are all crap. You feel like you're watching a bad Hallmark film.There is nothing memorable or exciting in this film. If you can call it a "film".Is there anything good in it? Well, Stacy Keach and Antionette Byron are really good in this. Other than that, Man With The Screaming Brain is just forgettable. Bruce fans, just watch Evil Dead or Bubba Ho-Tep instead.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, I will be blunt and direct. What kept this movie afloat was the presence of Bruce Campbell.The story of the movie was quite bad, and so very, very cheesy. Although there were some moments that were quite funny, but the story and plot was bad.The acting was adequate, and Bruce Campbell was a very dominant figure in the movie. It was physically painful to watch Ted Raimi goof around in this movie. But in general, the rest of the cast did an okay job with their roles.Now, I know that Bruce Campbell is a cult in himself, but this movie didn't really work for me. It was just too goofy and cheesy. I was sort of disappointed with this movie. Sure, I made it through the entire movie, only because of Bruce Campbell.If you are a HUGE Campbell fan, then you'll love this, of that I am quite sure.

sol (Some Spoilers) It took some 19 years for Bruce Campbell to finally put his masterpiece " Man with the Screaming Brain" on the screen. But Campbell had to alter his story by having it, due to financial problems, take place in Sofia Bulgaria not where he initially wanted it to be filmed in Los Angeles California.In the film Burce Campbell plays US pharmaceutical tycoon Willian Cole who travels together with his spoiled rotten wife Jackie, Antoinette Byron,to the former Communist Republic of Bulgaria. It's there that William wants to help finance Bulgaria's almost non-existent mass transportation system.It's poor William's misfortune to get involved with both Gypsy woman Tatoya, Tamara Gorski, and her ex-boyfriend Yegor, Valdimir Kolev, an ex-KGB taxi driver. The two, William & Yegor, will unwittingly end up shearing their brains, inside William's skull,because of Tatoya's jealousy and vindictiveness.After Tatoya murders both William and Yegor their bodies are delivered to mad scientist Dr. Ivan Ivanowitch Ivanov, Stacy Keach, by his loyal assistant Pavel, Ted Raimi, to have their brains experimented with. Dr. Ivanov has this theory in that two heads are better then one. And now with the material, William & Yegor, available to him Dr. Ivanov at last is finally going to prove it. What Dr. Ivanov is going to sadly find out is that by fusing the two heads, or brains, together their brain waves will overlap and cause them to not only malfunction but turn against each other!William with Yegor's right lobe fused into his damaged brain is out to find Tatoya and make her pay for the damage she caused both him and Yegor. Yegor for his part is stuck in William's head who's likes and dislikes, in both food and drink, are totally opposite to his own. This causes a lot of tension and hostility between the two brains in them fighting for control of William's body!Things get even more screwed up when Jackie finding out that Tatoya murdered her husband William confront her in the dangerous and high crime section of Bravoda call Gypsy Town and ends up being murdered herself. Brought back to Dr. Ivanov by his assistant Pavel it's determined, with no body available,to plant Jackie's brain inside of an experimental robot that Pavel's been working on. The operation is a rousing success but the only drawback is that Jackie, with her brain inside the robot, has to have her brain recharged every few hours! Or, like a real brain lacking oxygen, she'll die together with the robot's batteries.Combination 1930's-like screw-ball comedy and horror flick with both William & Yegor turning the Bulgarian town of Bravoda upside down in trying to find Tatoya and make her pay, with her life, for the sad state of existence she put them both into. ***SPOILER ALERT*** It's Dr. Ivanov who in fact saves the day by discovering how to keep the two brains from fighting, and thus cooperating, with each other! This is done by him instead of fusing the brains together Dr. Ivanov keep them independent by implanting a neutralizing cell wall in between the two uncooperative globs of gray matter.