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Brainscan

Brainscan

Horror · Science Fiction · 1994

A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.

Movie details

Brainscan

“Wanna play? I dare you.”

1994 Horror · Science Fiction 1h 36m

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6.1 / 10

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A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

John Flynn

Written by

Brian Owens · Andrew Kevin Walker

Edward Furlong

Edward Furlong

Michael

Frank Langella

Frank Langella

Detective Hayden

T. Ryder Smith

T. Ryder Smith

The Trickster

Amy Hargreaves

Amy Hargreaves

Kimberly

Jamie Marsh

Jamie Marsh

Kyle

Victor Ertmanis

Victor Ertmanis

Martin

David Hemblen

David Hemblen

Dr. Fromberg

Court is in session

Put Brainscan on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.