"Four people with distinctly different backgrounds all volunteer for an experiment involving mind-altering and manipulation. The volunteers all gather at a secret laboratory and are subject to a series of procedures that border on torture, including shock therapy and psychological torture. The final portion of the procedure involves the test subjects (being) exposed to an experimental device that alters the participants' minds through the exposure of their innermost fears and darkest secrets."
"As it seems to be with such experimental testing, something goes wrong with the procedure and the test subjects and scientists suffer the horrible results," according to the grammatically corrected DVD sleeve synopsis.
"The Brain Machine" aka "Gray Matter" looks so incompetent, it could be that nobody thought it was worth improving on a rough cut. It definitely receives an extra-awful star for the laughable "walls closing in" ending, and wrongheaded performances. Among some lesser-known players, "immortal" Gerald McRaney (as Willard "Willie" West) deadpans, "Kill me before I'll die!" and, wigged-out James Best (as Emory Neill) plays a molesting man-of-the-cloth. Ah, but, they are young...
** The Brain Machine (1977) Joy N. Houck Jr. ~ Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, James Best, Barbara Burgess
"As it seems to be with such experimental testing, something goes wrong with the procedure and the test subjects and scientists suffer the horrible results," according to the grammatically corrected DVD sleeve synopsis.
"The Brain Machine" aka "Gray Matter" looks so incompetent, it could be that nobody thought it was worth improving on a rough cut. It definitely receives an extra-awful star for the laughable "walls closing in" ending, and wrongheaded performances. Among some lesser-known players, "immortal" Gerald McRaney (as Willard "Willie" West) deadpans, "Kill me before I'll die!" and, wigged-out James Best (as Emory Neill) plays a molesting man-of-the-cloth. Ah, but, they are young...
** The Brain Machine (1977) Joy N. Houck Jr. ~ Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, James Best, Barbara Burgess