# What was this really gross horror movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464 "2005-07-14T03:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/1 "2005-07-14T03:44:08Z")
Need a title: mad scientist turns people into dissected neural systems. Most notable scene: person’s face clamped to a supporting frame, with only their de-cerebralized midbrain behind it. ---
**Author:** ![MackoUr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MackoUr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MackoUr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/2 "2005-07-14T03:52:49Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Need a title: mad scientist turns people into dissected neural systems. Most notable scene: person’s face clamped to a supporting frame, with only their de-cerebralized midbrain behind it. Was it [Brain Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/) ? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/3 "2005-07-14T12:39:21Z")
> [@MackoUr](#): > > Was it [Brain Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/) ? Yep, that looks like it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/4 "2005-07-14T13:25:10Z")
Btw, this is not the film by Peter Jackson which was released in the US as Dead-Alive. I’ve seen the Jackson one. Now I gotta see this (the two Bill P’s AND Bud Cort in the cast!) ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/5 "2005-07-14T13:27:03Z")
> [@MackoUr](#): > > Was it [Brain Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/) ? Great, it has both Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton in it. How will I tell their characters apart? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/6 "2005-07-14T14:24:43Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > Great, it has both Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton in it. How will I tell their characters apart? One is Lone Starr, hunted by an alien before becoming the President of the United States who fights an alien invasion, and the other is a wisecracking sidekick of Danny Glover who gets killed by a predator, and then is a cynical sidekick of Michael Biehn who gets killed by an alien. Hmm. That doesn’t help as much as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/7 "2005-07-14T14:52:52Z")
The most disturbing nightmare I ever had was similar to the description in the OP. Not sure if that means I should see this flick, or really shouldn’t see this flick. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/8 "2005-07-14T14:56:29Z")
> [@lno](#): > > … and the other is a wisecracking sidekick of Danny Glover who gets killed by a predator, and then is a cynical sidekick of Michael Biehn who gets killed by an alien. Is that before or after he makes out with and gropes Helen Hunt? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/9 "2005-07-14T15:31:15Z")
Before, actually; he spends a little time with the stork-like Helen Hunt a full eight years after being gutted in a dimly-lit subway. Apparently her standards were pretty low. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-really-gross-horror-movie/312464/10 "2005-07-15T14:05:36Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Btw, this is not the film by Peter Jackson which was released in the US as Dead-Alive. I’ve seen the Jackson one. Now I gotta see this (the two Bill P’s AND Bud Cort in the cast!) Brain Dead (two words) vs. Braindead. That’s why I couldn’t find it when I searched. Thanks again **MackoUr**.