The Man With the Screaming Brain - mini review
Well Ash fans, I'm back from a midnight Bruce Campbell book signing and showing of The Man With the Screaming Brain, and I wish I had better news to report. Though the man himself had some great anecdotes about filming in Bulgaria on the Sci-Fi Channel's dime, those twenty minutes of well-rehearsed movie-production standup comedy were all the entertainment my wife and I were to experience this evening.
Is The Man With the Screaming Brain a victim of a low budget, an abbreviated shooting schedule, and a cast and crew unfamiliar with the English language? Probably, but it doesn't matter. The script (penned by Campbell and Angel writer David M. Goodman) offers no assistance and even the principal actors (including Stacy Keach and Ted Raimi, both with head-achingly unfunny Bulgarian accents) are unable to bring much in the way of comedic spark. Campbell and company may have had some fun making this little picture, but precious little of that jocularity made it to the screen.
A full review for Stomp Tokyo to come soon enough. Maybe I'll throw in a few of those production anecdotes so you can get something of worth out of reading it.
Is The Man With the Screaming Brain a victim of a low budget, an abbreviated shooting schedule, and a cast and crew unfamiliar with the English language? Probably, but it doesn't matter. The script (penned by Campbell and Angel writer David M. Goodman) offers no assistance and even the principal actors (including Stacy Keach and Ted Raimi, both with head-achingly unfunny Bulgarian accents) are unable to bring much in the way of comedic spark. Campbell and company may have had some fun making this little picture, but precious little of that jocularity made it to the screen.
A full review for Stomp Tokyo to come soon enough. Maybe I'll throw in a few of those production anecdotes so you can get something of worth out of reading it.
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Bruce brought his dog-and-pony show to Salt Lake this last weekend; I considered going, until the costs started to add up -- gotta buy his book from the bookstore doing to signing to even get a ticket to the signing, and fifteen dollars for the showing (with two other Bruce Campbell movies showing afterward, but I wouldn't have had time to stay for 'em). I passed.
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