Wizard-8 I have to confess that the mass popularity of Bruce Campbell somewhat mystifies me. Yes, he does have talent and charm, but I don't see how he's managed to become a big cult star. Neverless, I was intrigued enough to watch the Bruce Campbell movie "Man with the Screaming Brain" since Campbell was not only starring in the movie, but acting as the writer and the director. However, after watching it, I think that even Bruce Campbell fanatics will find this a disappointing effort. There are a lot of problems with it, many of them due to the script. The story (which seems to have gotten its inspiration from the Steve Martin movie "All of Me", out of all sources) is pretty thin. It takes almost half of the movie before the movie fully sets up the situation. Once everything is set up, the movie's story doesn't speed up that much; they have to throw in a subplot about Campbell's on screen wife to pad things out, for example. But there's a bigger problem. While there are a few (slightly) amusing sequences here and there, the movie as a whole simply isn't very funny. The humor in the script is obvious and lacking creativity and a sense of wackiness. And being the camera, Campbell seems unable to direct his actors with any energy and originality that might have milked a few drops of humor out of the predictable script.To top it off, even by Sci Fi network standards, the movie is really cheap and threadbare, from the shoddy photography to the minimal set decoration. While the movie is not the worst Sci Fi network movie I have been unlucky to see, I am sure that most Bruce Campbell fans will agree that it's one of the most disappointing efforts the network has produced to date.

charliesonnyray It's obvious by my rating that I hated this film. A lot. I wanted to see it because I thought the premise was interesting but soon all that it had going for it went down the drain. The movie has some serious problems with pacing as some things feel like they came out of the blue. The story is the main issue of this whole film. To be honest, it's like if a bad Frankenstein film got mixed in with a really weird and poorly written romance. The characters are pretty flat and most of the comedy is pretty bad, unfunny and just makes you want to face palm. The effects are pretty cheesy and the acting is even worse. The script is over all just a mix mash of good ideas that went wrong and terrible writing. I feel like I should have put a restraining order on this film.

Steve Adams As a fan of the Evil Dead movie series including Army of Darkness I like to see most movies that Bruce Campbell is in because he has a knack for either just picking fun movies to be in or just making them fun himself by being in them, I think it is probably both. The Evil Dead Series is bloody awesome pun intended maybe? But Bubba Ho Tep was another awesome movie where he played Elvis Presley after he supposedly died, in some convalescent home where he had to fight off an evil mummy! In this movie he plays a guy killed by this woman and he is brought back to life by a mad scientist who has fixed his brain by attaching into it the brain of a Russian or Bulgarian cab driver named Yuri who now controls part of his brain, and they track down this woman who also killed Yuri or whatever his name is to get their revenge.

Lee Eisenberg Or if you've seen the "Evil Dead" trilogy and/or "Bubba Ho-Tep", then you should know that his movies are total farces. With "Man with the Screaming Brain", he goes all out again. In this case, he plays smarmy American businessman William Cole visiting Bulgaria - when do we ever get to see that country? - when a woman kills him. So, strange scientist Ivan Ivanov (Stacy Keach) replaces half of Cole's brain with the brain of a former KGB agent, leaving him acting sort of like Steve Martin in "All of Me".Yes, the whole movie is pretty much an excuse for pure nonsense. Much of the real humor comes from "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi's brother Ted as Ivanov's nearly brain-dead assistant Pavel. The two men have a relationship more like Laurel and Hardy or Gilligan and the Skipper.So just understand that this is a totally silly movie, and you won't be a bit disappointed. I liked it, anyway.