TONIGHT!: Holy Shit! The Brain Ate Pinky!
This movie was newly added to a very long list of movies I would like to watch, solely based on the cover alone. I had no idea what the hell I was going to get into before I got into it. And I have to say; I am so glad I came across this rollercoaster of a shit show of a movie based within a demographic that I cannot empathize with. This being small-town blues and dealing with that type of nonsense. The parents don’t know how to parent, and kids know how to be kids. Well, when that saving grace is a brain that can eat pinky, you might have more significant problems than your teen having sex.
Holy shit! This movie went from 0 to 60 within the first 10 minutes that I knew that however bad it was going to be, it was going to be good. The effects jumped out at you for no goddamn reason, and you were left to fill in the blanks of what could be happening just by living in the 80s alone. I mean, I grew up during the time, and within those five years, I think I’ve got a good grasp on how fucked up it was. Just look at these fucking movies, for one!
We are introduced to various characters who may have been actual teens at the time, but I doubt it. And as we all know, teens love going to see behavioral therapists to guide them through the hard time that adolescence can be when you have no outside influences from the rest of the world. So television is the great escape, but it becomes strange when teens randomly begin dying from the presence of a new TV show that’s broadcasting in town; a potential Nobel laureate doesn’t succumb to their trickery and overthrows their diabolical scheme to save the rest of humanity.
This was the type of movie that I wouldn’t have minded obligatory sex scenes, but damn, that fucking Brain scared me every damn time it popped on the screen. I shit you not. I jumped every time.
Sometimes, movies set in such a crazy world like this one make it so hard for someone in the 21st Century to relate to this. It is immense foreshadowing on the creator’s part to tell a story of that time, the time preceding, and the time to come with a chance to make changes for the better. The focus made during the large half of the movie was shit to me. I get that the goal of the Brain was to do away with Jim, but damn. Get off the kids’ dick. He literally would not have been able to do anything to change anyone’s mind.
In the end, it was all made easy for him to do what he needed to do to get this movie to end. And that was for The Brain to violate his No-Nut-November and finally get what he wanted from this kid; a sweet-salty release on a dirty fucking wool sweater, ending this entertaining movie with a bang.
I enjoyed this movie. The number of times I jumped from The Brain popping into the scene made the movie for me. When I thought about it afterward, it reminded me of a version of Goosebumps that would most definitely work at the present. Lots of fun and laughs with this one.
Available to watch on Amazon Prime Video