The Man with the Screaming Brain
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| Directed by | Bruce Campbell |
| Produced by | Bruce Campbell Jeff Franklin David Goodman Bob Perkis |
| Written by | Bruce Campbell |
| Story by | Bruce Campbell David Goodman Sam Raimi |
| Starring | Bruce Campbell Tamara Gorski Vladimir Kolev Antoinette Byron Stacy Keach Ted Raimi |
| Music by | Joseph LoDuca |
| Cinematography | David Worth |
| Edited by | Shawn Paper |
| Distributed by | Syfy |
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90 minutes |
| Country | Germany United States |
| Language | English, Bulgarian, Russian |
| Budget | $3,000,000 |
Man with the Screaming Brain is a 2005 science fiction/slapstick film co-written, produced, directed by and starring Bruce Campbell. It is Campbell's feature film directorial debut. The film was co-written by David Goodman and co-stars Ted Raimi.
Bruce Campbell plays William Cole, the wealthy CEO of a U.S. drug company who travels to Bulgaria with his wife, Jackie (Antoinette Byron) in the hopes of diversifying his company's financial interests. Cole is a stereotypical ugly American who constantly complains about the lack of Americanization of the former communist country. They're driven to a hotel by a taxi driver, and former KGB agent, named Yegor Stragov (Vladimir Kolev), in which Yegor gives William a ring to give to Jackie. While William is at the construction of a subway, Jackie secretly cheats on William with Yegor.
William gets back to the hotel and bumps into the hotel maid and gypsy, Tatoya (Tamara Gorski), who kills men that date and dump her. Jackie then comes in, catches William kissing Tatoya and dumps him. William chases Tatoya, who had taken William's money and ring (which is revealed to be Tatoya's that she gave to Yegor when they dated), and Tatoya knocks him in the head with a pipe outside the hotel. Yegor witnesses this and so Tatoya kills Yegor with his own gun.
A vengeful Jackie has Cole's life support plug pulled in hospital, and then goes to Gypsy Town where Tatoya lives and attempts to kill her, only to have Tatoya kill her by throwing her down a flight of stairs. Meanwhile, William wakes up in the warehouse of a Russian scientist named Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (Stacy Keach), and his idiotic assistant Pavel (Ted Raimi), who had taken damaged parts of William's brain and replaced it with healthy tissue from Yegor's. When William runs out of the warehouse, he discovers he can hear Yegor's voice in his head, and they both plan to "get the woman that killed us both". Jackie, who had also been picked up by Dr. Ivanov and Pavel, has her brain put inside a robot, and so she escapes and also plans to exact revenge on Tatoya.
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