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Brain Damage
Brain Damage (1988) is Frank Henenlotter's horror comedy, also known by its working title Elmer the Parasite, about Brian (Rick Hearst), who becomes addicted to the blue fluid injected by the brain-eating parasite Aylmer, an allegory for drug addiction.
Brain Drill
Brain Drill was an American technical death metal band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 2005 by guitarist Dylan Ruskin and known for extreme playing speeds.
Brain on Fire (film)
Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama, also called Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, directed by Gerard Barrett and starring Chloë Grace Moretz as journalist Susannah Cahalan, misdiagnosed with mental illness before Dr. Souhel Najjar identified anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; premiered at TIFF 2016, released on Netflix June 22, 2018.
Brain rot
Brain rot: colloquial term for supposed intellectual decline from consuming trivial online content, and the content itself. Oxford Word of the Year 2024, OED-listed 2025, first recorded in Thoreau's Walden (1854).
Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 on their Manticore label, featuring Karn Evil 9, Jerusalem, Toccata, and H.R. Giger's iconic cover art and ELP logo.
Brainchild
Brainchild is a 2018 Netflix educational children's science series, also called Brain Child, created by Adam 'Tex' Davis and Jerry Kolber; one 13-episode season hosted by Sahana Srinivasan with Alie Ward and Ben Seidman.
BrainDead
BrainDead names two unrelated works: the 2016 CBS comic-thriller by Robert and Michelle King about alien bugs eating politicians' brains in Washington, cancelled after 13 episodes, and Peter Jackson's 1992 New Zealand splatter film Braindead, also released as Dead Alive.
Braindead (film)
Braindead (Dead Alive, 1992) is Peter Jackson's New Zealand zombie splatter comedy in which Lionel Cosgrove's mother, bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey in 1957 Wellington, becomes a zombie; a 4K restoration screened at TIFF 2025 and Sitges 2026.
Brainiac (character)
Brainiac (DC Comics Superman villain, alien AI from Colu) debuted in Action Comics #242 (1958) by Otto Binder and Al Plastino; famous for bottling the city of Kandor and for his Twelfth-Level intellect, making his live-action debut in Man of Tomorrow (2027).
Brainiac 5
Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a DC Comics superhero, a green-skinned 12th-level Coluan genius and descendant of Superman's enemy Brainiac. Created by Siegel and Mooney, debuting in Action Comics #276 (1961), he serves the 30th-century Legion of Super-Heroes, invented its flight rings, and appears in the 2006 cartoon and 2023 animated film.
Brainpower
Brainpower is the stage name of Gertjan Mulder (born 1975, Antwerp), a Dutch-language rapper and producer based in Amsterdam and one of the Netherlands' best-selling rappers.
Brainscan
Brainscan is a 1994 horror and science-fiction film directed by John Flynn, in which teenager Edward Furlong plays a CD-ROM game whose murders occur in real life.
Brainstorm (1983 film)
Brainstorm is a 1983 American science fiction thriller directed by Douglas Trumbull, starring Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, and Cliff Robertson; it is Wood's final film.
Brainstorm (group)
Brainstorm is a German power metal band from Heidenheim, formed in 1989 by guitarists Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric, known for fourteen studio albums and German chart success.
Brainwashed (George Harrison album)
Brainwashed is George Harrison's twelfth and final studio album, released posthumously on 18 November 2002, completed by Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Jim Keltner from Harrison's instructions, fifteen years after Cloud Nine.
Braising
Braising (French braiser, from "ember") is a combination cooking method: sear food, then cook it covered in a small amount of liquid, partway up the food, until collagen converts to gelatin and tough cuts turn fork-tender.
Braj Bhasha poetry
Braj Bhasha poetry (ब्रजभाषा काव्य) is verse composed in Braj Bhasha, a Western Hindi dialect and the chief poetic language of North India from the medieval period into the early twentieth century.
Brajangana
Brajangana Kavya (ব্রজাঙ্গনা কাব্য) is an 1861 collection of Bengali lyric poems by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, written on Radha's grief after Krishna's departure from Braj, and credited as the first ode in Bengali.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker, 1847-1912), Dublin-born Irish Protestant writer, barrister, and Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre manager, wrote eleven novels; his Gothic horror Dracula (1897) created the Transylvanian vampire count and defines vampire fiction today.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror-romance adaptation of Stoker's 1897 novel, starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves; three Academy Awards, practical effects, invented Dracula-Mina romance.
Bramayugam (ബ്രഹ്മയുഗം)
Bramayugam (ഭ്രമയുഗം), 2024 Malayalam black-and-white folk horror by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Mammootty as Kodumon Potti; 17th-century Kerala slavery tale, ₹85 crore grosser, National Film Award winner.
Bramwell (TV series)
Bramwell is a British ITV medical drama (1995-1998, 27 episodes, four series) created by Lucy Gannon, Harriet Davison, and Tim Whitby, starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr Eleanor Bramwell, a woman doctor in 1890s London who founds the Thrift charity infirmary.
Bran Nue Dae
Bran Nue Dae is an Australian stage musical by Jimmy Chi and the Broome band Kuckles, recognized as Australia's first Aboriginal musical and premiered in 1990.
Bran Stark
Bran Stark is the second son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright. Paralyzed by Jaime Lannister in the first book, he becomes a warg and greenseer, succeeds the Three-Eyed Raven beyond the Wall, and is crowned Bran the Broken in the show's finale.
Bran Van 3000
Bran Van 3000 (BV3) is a Montreal, Quebec musical collective founded by DJ James Di Salvio, known for Glee (1997), the hit Drinking in L.A. (UK No. 3), the 1998 Juno-winning alternative album, and Discosis (2001) on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label.
Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel (Cappella Brancacci) is a frescoed chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, decorated by Masolino and Masaccio in the 1420s with scenes from the Life of Saint Peter.
Brâncovenesc style
The Brâncovenesc style (stilul brâncovenesc) is an artistic and architectural style of late 17th and early 18th century Wallachia, named after Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and blending local, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Western traditions.
Brand New (band)
Brand New: American rock band formed 2000 on Long Island, New York, by Jesse Lacey, Vincent Accardi, Garrett Tierney, and Brian Lane; five studio albums from Your Favorite Weapon (2001) to Science Fiction (2017), each reinventing its sound, ending after 2017 allegations against Lacey.
Brand New Chanels
Brand New Chanels (stylized "brand new chanel$") is a July 31, 2026 single by American pop singer Slayyyter, a sister song to BEAT UP CHANEL$ from WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, with a self-directed video, one week on the Hot 100, and a UK peak of #72.
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Brand New Cherry Flavor is a 2021 Netflix eight-episode horror limited series by Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion, adapted from Todd Grimson's 1996 novel, starring Rosa Salazar as filmmaker Lisa Nova seeking supernatural revenge in 1990s Los Angeles.