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The Brain Machine
Grey Matter / Mind Warp / The E-Box
USA 1977
produced by Stephen C. Burnham, Thomas Hal Phillips for Howco
directed by Joy N. Houck jr
starring James Best, barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, Marcus J. Grapes, Doug Collins, Ann Latham, Thomas Hal Phillips, Christian Garrison, Stocker Fontelieu, Tom Dever, Stuart Lancaster, Zephirin Hymel IV, Sam Sherrill, Stephen C. Burnham, Ky Oaks, James T. Morris, Charles Hornby, James Downey, Corrine Moreno, Michael Nellums, Robert Miller, Chris De Carlo, A.L. Leggett, Don Lutenbacher, Lionel Day
written by Christian Garrison, Joy N.Houck jr, Thomas Hal Phillips, music by Jim Helms
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Scientist Doctor Roth (Doug Collins) gets a gouvernment grant to create
a mind-reading machine that he intends to use for enviromental problems
(?) - but the gouvernment of course has more sinister aspirations. Without
Roth's knowledge, they hack into the computer at the core of his brain
machine, ready to take it over at any time ... and this time comes exactly
when Roth's four test persons (James Best, Gerald McRaney, Marcus
J.Grapes, Ann Latham) and one of his assistants (Barbara Burgess) are
locked inside a sealed off lab in an experiment to encounter their deepest
fears. Now hwat was supposed to be an intense experiment anyways goes
completely over the top, and violence, suicide and murder ensue, and in
the ned, the walls even start to move towards each other to squash the
survivors, for no apparent reason. Roth manages to get them out anyhow,
but alas too late, the gouvernment has already gathered enough information
on the brain machine, and now everyoneinvolved with the program who's
considered expendable (including Roth) is simply eliminated ... Weird
and not very successful blend of espionage thriller, psychodrama and
science fiction, that at times attempts to be intelligent ... but to
disastrous results, since neither the film's plot as a whole nor its
underlying concept have been properly thought through, and thus the
audience is actually confronted with bits and pieces that seem to come
from everywhere but make little sense when put next to each other. Rather
bad, and not even so bad it's funny ....
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