Very best movie i ever watch

Thanks for the memories!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This excessively melodramatic thriller has everybody yelling over ridiculously bombastic music to the point where even extra-strength Tylenol can't help make sense of this mess. Starting off O.K. (with Jeffrey Hunter rescuing the allegedly suicidal Anne Francis from an on-coming train), it goes haywire once you meet her extremely cruel husband (Dana Andrews) whom this James Cain ripped off couple plot to kill with the intention of him getting an insanity plea. Toss in a subplot involving Hunter's scientific research, his therapy with the beautiful psychiatrist Viveca Lindfors, and Hunter's eventual sentencing to a mental institution, and the result is a curvy road map of a plot that runs out of gas long before it gets to its destination. Even if you make it to the end, you may have left it behind psychologically long before that.

****SPOILERS**** A tale of murder and madness involving the brilliant if not a bit mixed up electronic and computer genius Jim Gayam, Jeffery Hunter. Jim who after saving Lorrie Benson's, Anne Francis, life from getting pulverized by an express train in a failed suicide attempt falls crazily in love with her. Jim soon plans to murder Lorrie's abusing husband Cort, Dana Andrews, and use the insanity defense to get away with it.It's Cort who's in fact Jim's boss at Benson's Industries who considers him to be his most talented employee calling him the young Einstein who feels without Jim help his company would go bankrupt. It's later when Lorrie and Jim start having an affair behind his back Cort plans to make both lovebirds lives a living hell and in Lorrie's case leave her both without her high flying and spending lifestyle and the couple's daughter Julie,Victoria Paige Mejeknik. As for Jim Cort does everything possible to discredit him by planing stories that he's nuts and getting nuttier as well as being phone freak calling womens all hours of the day and night and propositioning them for freaky sex. One of those stories that is in fact true,compared to those that Cort made up, is that as a collage student Jim ended up in a mental institution from the results of a nervous breakdown at age 19. This is to show that all the stories about his violent actions and creepiness is true.In planning to get Cort out of his and Lorrie's lives Jim concocts this hair brain scheme of offing Cort and making it look like he was legally insane when he did it. Doing that Jim would end up in a mental asylum for a few years and then after showing that he's recovered from his insanity be released and marry Lorrie who'd be withing for him on the outside. Blowing Cort away at a stock holder meeting Jim's arrested for his murder and now puts on this crazy act to prove that he was insane at the time he did Cort in. With the help of world renowned psycho analyst Dr.Larstardt, Viveca Lindfors, whom the boyishly handsome Jim makes a play for he ends up being certified insane by Dr. Larstardt and a number of fellow psychiatrists at his trial and sent straight to the funny farm, mental institution, just like he planned. ***SPOILERS*** Well things did't exactly work out the way that Jim planned it in that being put in a place with insane people he himself started to lose it and become just as nutty as any of them. Meanwhile Jim's lover Lorrie that he did all this for left him high and dry and took off with her late husband's butler feeling that he's in fact too crazy to marry and bring up a family with. In a desperate attempt to prove that he's normal Jim later breaks out of the loony bin and heads straight for Dr.Larstadt place in a last effort for her to prove that he's as normal as you or I.By then it's obvious to Dr. Larstadt and anyone else watching the movie that Jim's as nutty as a fruitcake as the movie ends with the men in the white suites and asylum security guards taking a very uncooperative Jim away to a padded cell where he can spend all him time reviewing his now shattered life and how he and only he was responsible in making a complete mess out of it. The movie is a lot like the Samuel Fuller 1963 classic "Shock corridor" where in one faking insanity he or she can in the end become insane without even knowing it.P.S Check out the films director William Conrad and 7 foot 2 inch tall Richard Keil in the movie as asylum inmates.

Certainly, the movie is worth the watch.Insane or not Insane? That is the Question! What is the answer? (See my board post which answers that but contains spoilers there.) Well, you better take notes and watch carefully, because you might have to go back and re-watch a few scenes. Yeah, one of those nice suspense movies. :) The director here is in tune with the message, and will play with you using a tiny bit of Hitchcock like style, but it's a well crafted movie. Yes, there are some rough spots around the edges, but one should certainly watch it for the great story and pretty good acting by both the scientist and the women.Break out the popcorn and watch the end closely! Good movie for the time period. Still fits for today. Nicely directed.

By the time "Brainstorm" was made, both Jeffrey Hunter and Dana Andrews had descended into B films. "Brainstorm" was one of them, costarring '50s starlet Anne Francis. Directed by William Conrad, it's actually a good movie about an engineer who falls in love with the unhappy wife of a wealthy man (Andrews) and concocts a scheme to kill him and get away with it by faking insanity.Hunter is very good in this dramatic role - he was a far better actor than some of his contemporaries but due to his personal demons, he never fulfilled his early promise. It's a shame because he played this kind of angry, edgy role very well, belying his staggering good looks. He gets good support from Andrews, Francis, and Viveca Lindfors, who plays a psychiatrist.There is one scene that may be unintentionally funny - when Hunter is in the asylum, one of the inmates starts singing the beginning of a song over and over again. Hunter finally screams, "Either finish that song or SHUT UP!" Brainstorm is worth a watch, especially to see Hunter do a role deserving of his abilities, and one he no longer had an opportunity to play in A films.