YMMV / The Brain (1988)

• Awesome Music: The electronic score by Canuxploitation veteran Paul Zaza is in equal parts eerie and catchy. For a sample, here's the opening credits theme.
• Complete Monster: Dr. Anthony Blakely is a power-hungry alien servant of the Brain. To get its master a foothold on Earth, Blakely founds a mental health clinic to brainwash people under the guise of helping them. Eventually, Blakely's popularity grows to the point of him getting a local pop psychology talk show, which he uses to feed the Brain independent thoughts, not caring that anybody who resists the hypnosis is Driven to Madness of the homicidal and suicidal variety. A fellow shrink at his clinic tries to quit out of ethical concerns, and Blakely laughs as the Brain devours her whole. When Jim Majelewski escapes from the clinic, Blakely frames him for multiple murders, one of which he committed by brainwashing a woman into killing her husband with a chainsaw for refusing to watch his show. Eventually, Blakely plans to send the Brain's mind control across Canada, then the world, while also giving Jim's girlfriend to the Brain as the latest of many humans to be its food.
• Designated Hero: Jim is supposed to be a lovable rebel unjustly persecuted by the small town, but is actually a destructive asshole who dumps pure sodium, which is explosive in water, down the toilets of the high school For the Lulz.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dr. Blakely crosses it when he has a woman murder her husband with a chainsaw for not watching his show.

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