Braindrainer

Michael Legge, who directed the silly lint-monster story in Creaturealm Demons Wake, returns with this low-budget sci-fi comedy about an alien rock which comes to Earth and sucks out people's brain-energy, leaving the victims as zombies with brains the size of raisins. Dr. Belinda Garland names the ...more

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle provides the operative philosophy of Braindrainer, as the humor is mostly based on silly (and sometimes quite funny) non sequiturs earnestly spouted by pompous politicians, scientists, and journalists. Viewers looking for something to compare it to should look to 1978's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which was similar in both approach and subject, although Braindrainer moves faster and delivers more laughs. Most direct-to-video films of the time are so ...more