Brand Upon the Brain!

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Cast

Isabella Rossellini

as Interlocuter

Erik Steffen Maahs

as Grown-up Guy Maddin

Sullivan Brown

as Young Guy Maddin

Gretchen Krich

as Mother

Maya Lawson

as Sis

Jake Morgan-Scharhon

as Chance Hale / Wendy Hale

Andrew Loviska

as Savage Tom

Kellan Larson

as Neddie

Todd Jefferson Moore

as Father

Megan Murphy

as Murderous Sister

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