a a bruce campbell fan for nearly two decade and i be thrill to have an opportunity to see his late film on the big screen with the man himself in attendance . unfortunately and man with the scream brain be itself a disappointment . set in bulgaria where the sci fi channel make it saturday night original film man with the scream brain be a curious mix of 50 b movie horror and body switching comedy and violent revenge flick and and overdo slapstick with a touch of romantic reconciliation . if that doesn not make sense and well and neither do man with the scream brain . campbell play a pharmaceutical company ceo who visit bulgaria with his estranged wife in an inexplicable attempt to invest in the former communist country half finish subway system . the two fall in with a former kgb agent turn cab driver and and all three ultimately meet their demise at the hand of a vengeful gypsy woman . a local scientist ( stacy keach ) and his goofy assistant ( ted raimi ) and who have develop a technique to allow tissue transplant without the possibility of rejection and steal the body and place a portion of the cab driver brain into campbell damage skull . also and they put his wife brain into a robotic body they just happen to have at hand . campbell escape and and with a hastily restitched skull and the voice of the cab driver whose transplanted brain tissue control the left side of his body echo in his head and set off to find and kill the gypsy . ( his robot wife do the same . ) but first and there an attempt to emulate steve martin or lily tomlin all of me when campbell two personality battle for dominance over a restaurant dinner . just a he be play his own evil hand in evil dead ii and campbell be adept at make his body appear to be inhabit by more than one mind . at time and scream come close to another steve martin film and the man with two brain and a it also take a silly approach to 50 sci fi clichés . however and it try too hard for too little result and and that go double for ted raimi semi comprehensible bulgarian oaf and who get entirely too much screen time . ( nothing against raimi and it just that he good in small dos . ) in the end and it neither outrageous ( or funny ) enough to satisfy a a spoof and nor be it serious enough to enjoy a a b movie pastiche . i be glad that campbell have already leave the screening by the time it grind to a halt and a i fear have to say and gee and bruce and that be really . something . perhaps the best praise i can give it a a film be that at least the image stick to the emulsion . and it be twice as good a alien apocalypse .