My Lovely Burnt Brother and His Squashed Brain (1988 Video) User Reviews

Did I just see what I thought I saw?

[reptilicus · 1/10 · 9 January 2006]

Someone claiming to be the producer of the movie comes on just before the film starts and says "This flick s***ks." That means the makers of this movie will NOT be sued for violating the Truth In Advertising law!

An ugly woman who has obviously never had a date in her life works for a dentist who thinks nothing of chugging a liter of whiskey before operating on his patients. This woman has a brother who was horribly mutilated in an auto accident. He wears a KKK hood because it was a black car that hit him (get it?). Finally fed up with the insults she must endure the woman turns her brother into a brain dead zombie by injecting him with urine (hey I just review 'em, I don't write 'em!) and after making him do nice things like slicing his arm open with scissors and other things I cannot say on this board she uses him to get even with the guys who have insulted her.

Gore has never been more cheesy as we see a bunch of sleazy guys get killed in increasingly brutal ways. You know the filmmakers were not taking themselves seriously by their approach to the killings but that does not make them any less brutal. Of course the trouble with creating a zombie is you never know when he might turn on you. That leads to the merciful end of this 52 minute . . . er . . . thriller?

Underground movies. You either gotta love 'em or hate 'em. I know where I stand on THIS movie and it sure ain't love! Get drunk; no get completely WASTED before you see it. This will not make the movie any better but you sure will enjoy it more!

Ugh

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 20 January 2023]

Directed by Giovanni Arduino and Andrea Lioy, this Italian SOV* movie has a great title that there's no way that it can live up to.

Bernie has been burnt up from being hit by a drunk driver so he remains high as much as possible and hides his injuries under a white Klan hood because the car was black. His receptionist sister Jenny, who everyone thinks is ugly but in no way looks that way, abuses him by repeatedly kicking him in the ballbag before injecting him with her urine, which gives her mental power over him. I think you have to pay for that kind of treatment.

There's also a garage band called The Sick Rose that plays throughout the movie as Bernie kills everyone who has been tormenting his sister. I'm still trying to figure out the punk rock cop whose dad was a banana peel falling for cowboy.

It does have someone getting their face jammed into a meat slicer and several people cutting off their own dicks and then eating them. In case you wondered why I'm not the kind of reviewer who gets to be on Criterion blu rays and a talking head on Shudder shows, it's because there's no call for someone to discuss the best self-castration scenes in SOV movies.

I mean, regular Italian exploitation horror has scenes of eyeballs being destroyed, drill presses through people's heads and people literally puking their guts out. Actually all of those things happen in City of the Living Dead. Just imagine how much more disgusting Italian filmmakers who aren't really filmmakers are. That said, just imagine how many long stretches there are of this film there are where absolutely nothing happens.

*I get this was shot on Super 8 but you know what I mean when it comes to the quality. I know that I'll get at least one letter if I don't have this disclaimer.

Yikes! What did I just watch?

[gutmunchers-31631 · 2/10 · 21 July 2022]

I take the time out to find low or no budget independent movies but sometimes it is a miserable experience. While I give them credit for a few gore effects this is such a random mess of characters that don't seem to connect tea each other. I guess that some folks dig that sort of thing but not me. I can't recommend this one.

it kicks some major...

[renard-5 · 8/10 · 14 January 2006]

Been in Italy. Still am. Done this, done that. Someone in Milano passed me a copy of this movie he'd found somewhere. That someone was old Alessandro. Well, I trust old Alessandro. Good guy, good guy, really knowledgeable, especially when it comes down to real sleazy flicks. Anyway. I chugged down some malt liquor and the show begun. An hour or something later, was I impressed! I mean, scarred zombies, fetish shots and much, much more. But, the soundtrack did it. Real garage punk from a real good, honest to god garage band. Bopping to the beat, I was. This movie is not a gem, but it is so warped and so utterly strange it deserve some respect. Respect, respect, ladies and gentlemen! Would really, really like to know if the pickled cerebellums behind this trash-delicious-supreme-hold-the-mayo are still alive and churning out other violent, obnoxious splatter fest in Italy, Brasil, Kongo or some such. First rule: do trust Alessandro.

I liked it..... something's wrong with you?

[bobafezz · 8/10 · 6 September 2010]

First, My Lovely Burnt Brother...... was way ahead of its time (the gross out comedies of the Eighties). Second, it was made really, really, really, really, really in pure bad taste, but not tongue in cheek. It's demented, but not intelligently demented, if you catch my drift. You laugh because it's so totally royally out there, not because it's comic or pretends to be satirical or such. It's raw, it's mean, it's grossly fetish..... its pluses are also its own demerits: it's so outlandish that sometimes you can't "stay with it". You watch at the movie, mouth agape, and that's it. As I said, it's raw! Well worth a look. Hey, a music opera was based on it and supposedly one of its authors destroyed all the prints because he got disgusted by the sick movie he created. That... *expletives deleted*! Anyway, you can find it on the web and sooner or later someone will find a way to get it a legit release. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraw!