Brainscan
United States, United Kingdom, Canada
1994
96 Min
Color
1.33:1
English
Synopsis
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened — and he’s the killer. —IMDb
Director
John Flynn
John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime-thrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder.
Flynn was raised in Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this stint that he studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.
He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director Robert Wise on Odds Against Tomorrow and worked as the script supervisor on West Side Story. From there, Flynn worked as a second unit director on Kid Galahad and The Great Escape. He made his debut as a director with The Sergeant starring Rod Steiger.
Flynn’s substantial commercial success was with The Outfit starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
In 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan… read more
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Christopher Smith
24Sep11
Really cheesy but also fairly entertaining 90s teen horror movie. It's really not a great film by any means, but the cast is pretty decent (though T. Ryder Smith gets pretty grating as failed horror icon "the Trickster"), and a few halfway clever sequences makes it fun in a retro-camp kind of way.
Joks
28Jun11
This feels like a horror movie assembled almost entirely from research team. The Trickster is like Freddy Krueger updated for the goth/grunge/cyperpunk generations. Rather than appeal to one group, the film makers cast a net wide enough to court as many unsuspecting viewers as possible. The two pronged theme of youth alienation and media violence is poorly dealt with too.
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