Brainscan

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Summary: 5 stars all the way !!!!!!!!!!
Review: this movie is great!! It will have your heart pounding fast.... it will scare you to death. This movie is very creepy and intense and even scary !!! I think this movie is very origanal and i have never seen another movie like it. So if you are a person who likes good scary movies that are weird.... THIS MOVIE IS THE ONE FOR YOU !!!!!!! I recomend you buy this movie or even just rent it. you wont be disapointed. I bet you will love it as much as i do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: This one's a diamond in the rough.
Review: Up late one night, I was perusing through the movie channels, and a flick starring eddie furlong was begginning....so I sat through it...and boy was I surprised. Aside fromsome low budget costumes, this movie knocked me on my ass!

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Summary: Different and not a slasher.
Review: When 'Scream' made it big, it was a huge shock that rocked the waves of America...and certainly Hollywood studios. It was a rarity that a horror film was actually a success. Not since the 80's had there been such a huge run for horror films. Freddy, to most fans, was dead. As was Jason and Michael. Yet...everything suddenly came back.

Mind you that was 1996, December of 1996, and things before then for horror was very different. In the year, 1994, a science fiction horror film called 'Brainscan' came out. It starred T2's Edward Furlong and was basically underwritten and never heard of. But, either way, success or failure, the film is decent.

The film is frightening in a way. In a time when 'The Matrix' was never released yet, this film comes off as very original. With the eerie score by George Clinton, not Dr. Funkenstein, and a cold, silver edged directing job, the film runs like a classy horror film. It's not a slasher and it's not campy, it's just a horror film, which is what I think was a lot of what was missing with the horror resurfacing in the late nineties.

Following Furlong's character, he's been ridden with a different lifestyle than others. A car accident killing his mother and giving himself a limp, after one nasty laceration. What's his escapism? Horror films, of course. He even has his own horror club at school, closed down by the 90's cliche, evil principal(I miss these old cliches). When he reads in a magazine, Fangoria to be precise, of a new type of video game, he must take part. It's called Brainscan, hey! that's the title of the film, and it takes you in for more than a ride. As the game has him as a killer, the cops in his town begin finding his victims. What is reality?

It's a different film and it's not for everyone. It's a classic in my book. From the writing to the acting, it's all not too shabby. In fact, Furlong plays it real well, and the supporting cast follows just as nicely. The real notable addition is the leader of the game, Trixster, as he mixes in that unnerving edge with some comedic performance, as well. The film just brings us back to a different time, where kids wore flannel and listened to Guns and Roses or Mudhoney...and horror movies were untampered with. Either way, it's a movie you either take or leave it.

The DVD has nothing on it, this is purely for film viewing. It's a bummer, I'd like to see something, even a trailer. But, either way, I enjoy the film and am glad they actually put it out!

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Summary: A nice surprise.
Review: When I first heard about this film I thought it was going to be a piece of garbage. Come on, when Edward Furlong has the lead role you know your in trouble. The movie revolves around Furlong's character playing a new game called Brainscan. People then begin dying in the neighborhood, and we are introduced to the Trickster, who gets Furlong to play the game. The movie is well-written and the acting is better than you would expect. Also, the plot twists in the film are a nice touch and will keep you entertained to the movie's end. I promise that you won't be disapointed with the movie.

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Summary: and i hate horror movies
Review: when michael finds himself interested in a cd rom game called brainscan out of fangoria he gets more than he asks for. his life is soon over taken by trickster, a punker styled out monster who uses michaels subconscious to kill random people through a video game. when body parts start showing up around the house michael realises that hes got to stop trickster and the game before everyone he cares about ends up dead.

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Summary: Welcome to the interactive trip to hell
Review: When Michael(Edward Furlong)orders the latest ineractive videogame called Brainscan,the high-tech game penetrates his subconscious where his darkest impulses lead him through a deadly game of murder,decption and desire.Michael just thinks it's part of the game but when dead bodies start showing up,Michael doesn't know if it's real or not and being prodded by the trickster(T.Ryder Smith),Michael is torn between the world of good and evil,reality and fantasy and of life and death.Brainscan is a totally cool and different kind of horror picture where even watching the film the viewer can't tell what's fantasy and what's reality.Finally after acouple of years of waiting,Brainscan came out on DVD and it's a sweet DVD to own.

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Summary: Want to Play?
Review: Wow. This was an experience. A horror movie that's actually different than the typical 'I-wear-a-mask-and-kill-you' fare that seemingly never ends. Edward Furlong, pre-drug crisis, plays a kid who gets this new video game called "Brainscan". It supposed to be the ultimate experience in terror. He doesn't believe it, but once he plays, it becomes apparent that it's true.

The game, it appears, peers into your psyche and what makes you tick. Furlong has a problem with his principal in real life, in the game he sees himself kill the principal in the middle of the night. Then, the incidents happening in the game begin to become real. More deaths happen. And more. Frank Langella plays a detective that's suspicious of the kid, 'cause he appears in the area every time there's a murder. Furlong wants everything to stop, ...but he has to finish the game to end it all.

Horror fans will like this movie. It's something rare: Different.

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Summary: are you playing the game? or is it playing you?
Review: you have to ask yourself that when you see this comical, sick and twisted and powerful sci fi adventure/ horror movie
the ending is brilliant
the cast is amazind
Edward Furlong could never let me down with the roles he does
he was amazing in the Terminator 2 movie. he was amazing in Pet Semetary 2. he'll never let me down
I have this on dvd
saw it when I was 14 with my dad for rent on vhs
the visuals and story haunted me
that's how powerful this movie is
it really lets you realize that sometimes the game you play is the real life thing and what you thought you didn't really do you really did ;)
a lesson learned from this movie you will get
I could watch this again and again
truly a great movie