"Kick ass, but in a very computer-in-the-90s kind of way." - Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Edward Furlong plays Michael Brower, a kid who loves horror movies and video games. His friend, Kyle, tells him about a new video game that has been released. The game is called Brainscan and it's described to be so realistic that it feels like the gamer is actually killing people. Michael buys the game and upon making his first "kill," he immediately feels the adrenaline rush that accompanies committing a murder.
Later Michael finds out on the news that the man he "killed" in Brainscan was actually murdered. The host of the game, Trickster, comes to life and tells Michael that he did, in fact, kill the man. Michael is instructed to finish the game because he must take care of a witness who saw him commit the crime.
Brainscan is like an R-rated episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? in that the special effects and make-up are very similar and even the plot sounds like it should have been on Nickelodeon; a much darker Nickelodeon that is. Anyways, it reeks of '90s nostalgia and I'm all about that. I definitely recommend it for this month.
-CS
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