Leomark Studios has announced an October 2nd On Demand and Blu-ray release for director Robin Nuyen's HOUSESITTER: THE NIGHT THEY SAVED SIEGFRIED'S BRAIN, a horror comedy that was filmed entirely in 1987… then sat on a shelf, unfinished, for thirty-two years. With some post-sound courtesy of Skywalker Sound and some visual tweaks from Paramount Pictures' color department, the film has finally been completed and is ready to make its way out into the world.
Written and produced by Nuyen with Richard Gasparian, HOUSESITTER: THE NIGHT THEY SAVED SIEGFRIED'S BRAIN is said to mix the styles of '80s horror and '50s sci-fi to tell the story of
Andy, an idealist medical student with a serious Elvis obsession, who is determined to perfect his rat-to-rat brain transfer to “help mankind and change the face of modern science”. After his final experiment fails and blows up, Andy loses his chance to travel abroad and study at the prestigious Reinhardt Institute. With his future in doubt, and with no place to live, his future looks bleak. Little does Andy know that his beloved professor and mentor, Doc Crosby, is actually a mad scientist who has been murdering people and stealing their brains for experiments in his makeshift “black and white” laboratory.
When Doc realizes that his own brain is so severely damaged from experimenting on himself that he will be dead in a matter of hours without a successful brain transfer, he hatches a scheme to acquire the thirteen human brains needed for his “brain pyramid”. Knowing that Andy is homeless and that college kids can’t resist having big parties, Doc invites Andy to housesit while he goes away on “business”. After he frees his deranged lab assistant from the insane asylum, and with his house now full of healthy unsuspecting college kids, Doc’s trap is set. When the party begins, so does the deadly game of cat and mouse.
Will Andy save his friends from the scalpel of a madman, or will Doc succeed in his murderous plot to save his own life by completing the first ever human brain transference procedure?
The film stars Holly Kaplan, Robert Small, and Stephen James Carver.
It's really cool that HOUSESITTER: THE NIGHT THEY SAVED SIEGFRIED'S BRAIN is done and getting a release after all this time. I look forward to checking it out, because I'm always on board to watch more '80s horror.
Filming took place Kalamazoo, Michigan, with locations including "the Henderson Castle, WMU, Kalamazoo College, and the Kalamazoo State Theatre". A special screening of the film is scheduled to take place at the Kalamazoo State Theatre on October 31st – so some lucky movie-goers are going to have the chance to watch this movie in one of its locations on Halloween.
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