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Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters

Country: Canada, Language: English, 95 mins

  • Director: Guy Maddin
  • Writer: Guy Maddin; Louis Negin
  • Producer: A.J. Epstein; Joy Fairfield

CGiii Comment

A practically unwatchable piece of arthouse...

Mr Maddin never disappoints...he's one of a few who takes this kind of stuff seriously. Bless.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans.

Cast & Characters

Gretchen Krich as Mother;
Sullivan Brown as Young Guy Maddin;
Maya Lawson as Sis;
Katherine E. Scharhon as Chance Hale / Wendy Hale;
Todd Moore as Father;
Andrew Loviska as Savage Tom;
Kellan Larson as Neddie;
Erik Steffen Maahs as Older Guy Maddin;
Cathleen O'Malley as Young Mother;
Clayton Corzatte as Old Father;
Susan Corzatte as Old Mother;
Megan Murphy as Murderous Sister;
Annette Toutonghi as Murderous Sister;
David Lobo as Oarsman;
Eric Lobo as Oarsman