I consider myself a fan of Bruce Campbell. Hell, the man was good enough to send me his autograph years back, I have his autobiography, and love his early work in the EVIL DEAD films and the like. Sadly, though, the last fifteen years of his career has been marred by his insistence on churning out these cheap, only mildly amusing B-movies to satisfy his fans.MY NAME IS BRUCE was one such movie, but MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN is even worse. It's a real cheapie, shot in Bulgaria and co-starring fan favourites like Stacy Keach and Ted Raimi, but even so it isn't very funny. Campbell - who we must apportion blame to, given that he also wrote and directed the thing - plays a rich businessman who has the brain of a Russian cab driver implanted into his own.There's no more plot to it than that, and indeed not much of anything at all. I love Raimi's and Keach's work, but the material they're given here is very tame and weak. The silly android stuff I could have done without. There's very little in the way of action or genre tropes, but a whole lot of talk and humour which feels more than a little forced. You'd have to be in a very accepting frame of mind to enjoy this one. Watch out for Bulgarian actor Raicho Vasilev, of IN HELL and SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA fame, who appears in a cameo.

I don't have many expectations of a B movie, but this one took what seemed like forever to set up.William Cole (Bruce Campbell) is the Ugly American businessman with the unfaithful wife Jackie (Antoinette Byron) on a trip behind the Iron Curtain. He runs into a cab driver Yegor (Vladimir Kolev) with a jealous gypsy girlfriend Tatoya (Tamara Gorski) who kills all three.Enter mad scientist Dr. Ivanov (Stacy Keach), and his assistant Pavel (Ted Raimi), who replace the damaged part of Cole's brain with Yegor's. Now we have a competition between an uber Capitalist and a Communist playing out in his body.If that isn't far-fetched enough, they put Jackie's brain in a robot.This movie just kept getting crazier and crazier. Funny at times, but crazy.

Man with the Screaming Brain certainly isn't a perfect movie, but I'm pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for Bruce Campbell, meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career: slapstick, sarcasm, cheese, action, and happy endings. Campbell is, as a writer, uneven--there are lots of things in the story that don't make a great deal of sense (why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it?), and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other, better incarnations (the scene in the restaurant, where Yegor and William battle for control of William's body, is straight out of Evil Dead II). There are, however, lots of little touches and non-sequiturs that feel rather brilliant, such as when William is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue, "What are you looking at?!" The movie looks like a Sci-Fi Channel original, probably because it was. The acting is actually pretty good. I particularly enjoyed Tamara Gorski as Tatoya; she was ruthless and cunning, yes, but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored. Ted Raimi handled the standard "bumbling assistant" role admirably enough, and Bruce is funny as the arrogant, sardonic, condescending American jerk. (Now that he's writing his own films, you'd think he'd give himself a role that he hasn't been typecast in already.) Man with the Screaming Brain is a bizarre, nonsensical B-movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously.

Now, the sci-fi channel original company has made some pretty crappy films (House of the dead 2, All souls day, etc.) but when you leave the job entirely to horror master actor/writer and now director, Bruce Campbell, you get one of the best damn made for TV independent horror films ever made! I normally hate these movies, in my previous review, House of the dead 2, I could not believe how horrible the film was! But somehow I took a liking for this film, a very good liking for this film. The violence is good and so is the black comedy in the film and I recommend you get it, a true Bruce Campbell masterpiece! Well, since there is only a few more lines left I can say whatever I want about this movie: IJAJKASIF JHJDJ NXD FNEHSD FHNCFNFVHS DJKEALJWSNS.UHHD SISHSNHF AHCNAKDJH HNDCHJNDNH JACND HCHJNNHW JHJ NASHDNFHCKA FHNKHAD SAKASDADJ FJKDFA