Brain Dead is an American sci-fi/horror movie directed by Adam Simon and produced by Julie Corman for Concorde Pictures and New Horizons. The screenplay was written by Adam Simon and Charles Beaumont and the film was released theatrically in the United States on January 19th, 1990. Braind Dead focuses on a neurosurgeon named Rex Martin whose expertise is called upon to examine the mind of a paranoid lunatic named John Halsey - a former mathematician who had been remanded to the care of a mental asylum.
Adam Simon also directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1993 killer dinosaur movie Carnosaur.
Adam Simon pays homage to gothic horror author H.P. Lovecraft with a passing reference to Miskatonic University - a fictional setting that has appeared in numerous Lovecraft works.
