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Released
1990 · FILM

Brain Dead

You have nothing to lose... except your mind.

Directed by
Runtime
85 min
HorrorMysterySci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Martin, a top neurosurgeon researching brain malfunctions that lead to mental illness, finds himself in a battle of man versus machine as he confronts a megalomaniacal corporation and delves deep into his own mind to save himself.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Carol OblathShot by Rohn SchmidtScored by Peter RotterDesigned by Catherine Hardwicke

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.6M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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