THE BRAIN
The power of sodium conquers all, as usual
Complain as you might about the recent spate of high-school horror, you've gotta give credit where it's due - none of 'em are as goofily bad as this one. It might not reach The Pit's heights of brilliant awfulness, but it's a real hoot anyway.
Doctor Blake (played by David Gale and his freaky-ass lopsided smile) runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers". Right there, you can tell that his goal is brainwashing and mind control - and he's got help, in the form of "the Brain". The Brain is basically a giant brain with a mouth and eyes and spinal cord - basically, it looks like an angry, African Pac-Man with a tail. Anyway, the only thing that stands between Blake & the Brain and world domination is a super-brilliant high school student so developmentally stunted that he actually thinks that super-gluing somebody's ass to a chair is funny. (watch the absurd setup for this scene. The guy didn't notice this kid putting super glue on his chair? Why did he stand up, anyway?)
The Brain is actually a fairly cool monster for a while ' its presence on the screen seems so off-kilter and displaced from any reality I know of that it's kind of creepy. But once it reaches a certain size, it just looks silly. Everybody else in the movie is pretty goofy, particularly Gale and the kid, whose eyebrows are freakishly straight. How does one remove handcuffs from themselves with a big-ass pair of long-handled bolt-cutters? For that matter, once the chain is cut, how are the cuffs themselves removed? And d'ya think that the minute-long sequence where a "DANGER: SODIUM IN USE" sign is visible in every shot might be brought up later? (yes, the sodium is the Inconspiculator)
Just kind of bad all around, and just bad enough to bring me some amusement. Certainly not recommended, but hey, all of us are sometimes in the mood for this kind of goofy shit. Watch on at least three different kinds of drugs.