Film Review: Brand Upon the Brain

I wish I was an intellectual or at least had a creative mind. I might have enjoyed this WEIRD film. I hated it and wanted to leave. Obviously I missed the whole thing because it did get 4 stars out of 4 in The Toronto Star. It is a crazy film directed by Guy Madden. You feel as if you are watching an old silent film. It is totally in black and white. Nobody speaks. The words are printed on the screen and some of the tale is told by a third person. The main character is Guy. He lives on an island in a lighthouse. His crazy parents run an orphanage in this lighthouse. His Mom is a bit of a tyrant. His father is a mad scientist who drills holes in the orphans’ heads and withdraws some type of nectar. Guy lives with his sister, ‘Sis’. The story is told in chapters. Each one seems more bizarre than the next. A young woman comes to the island. Guy is intrigued with her. She disguises herself as a man called Chance. Sister falls for Chance. So now we have a brother in love with a woman. The woman disguises herself as a man and the sister falls for the man. The man also carries on with the sister. At one point Sis kills the father. He is later revived. The sister turns into a tyrant and banishes the family from the island. If you are interested in anymore I suggest you go to see it. There is nudity. There is brain drilling. There is cross dressing. If all this turns you on by all means go ahead. Frankly I am not even interested enough to try and understand what it all means. Besides all this the theatre was freezing. I had a rotten time.