Brainscan (1994)

Brainscan (1994)

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Brain Scan

Tagline(s):	Game Over... You Loose! [sic.]
	Wanna Play? I Dare You.
	An Interactive Trip to Hell
	It's interactive and state-of-the-art... It's not just a game... It's murder.

Nomination Year: 2006

SYNOPSIS:

"Game Over... You Loose!"

Oh, my God they misspelled their own tagline!

Anyhow...this one stars Edward Furlong as a creepy, outcast high school student whose unsavory habits lead him down a dark path of crime. (What a stretch, huh?) He beta-tests the latest video game, "Brainscan," which hypnotizes you into the action. But the game seems to be making him commit murders! And the game also seems to be controlled (possessed?) by an outlandish devil-character known as Trickster. As the body count rises, Michael tries to stop the game...but he can't resist. Even when the next victim is to be the cute neighbor girl he has the hots for, and vice-versa. But it's all just a game -- or is it?

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Oblivious
Step One, Shine Flashlight -- Step Two, Look Where I'm Shining I've seen referees with better eyesight than this! The cop shines his flashlight directly on our "hero" and doesn't see him. He starts to leave, hears a noise, comes back, shines his flashlight directly on him again and STILL doesn't see him!

"Alas, Poor Yorick"
"Now I've Got You!" Having to struggle with the killer hits the principal like a ton of bricks.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
John Flynn	Directed Seagal in Out for Justice; also The Outfit, Lock Up, and Rolling Thunder.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Edward Furlong	Michael	John Connor (the kid) from Terminator 2. Went downhill from there. Such as playing Jeff Matthews in Pet Sematary II; Charile in Arachnoquake; the title character in The Zombie King; Jimmy Cuervo in The Crow: Wicked Prayer; and Ambrose London in Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Notoriously hard to work with.
Frank Langella	Det. Hayden	You would recognize him if you saw him: Often plays cops or mobsters or distinguished men in authority. Was Skeletor in Masters of the Universe; "Richard Nixon" in Frost/Nixon; Frank in Robot & Frank; Arlington Steward in The Box; Max in Now You See It; Perry White in Superman Returns; and Ostap Bender in the Mel Brooks masterpiece The Twelve Chairs.
T. Ryder Smith	The Trickster	Probably thought he was going to be the next Freddy Kreuger thanks to Brainscan, but instead ended up looking like the the Ferengi Voldemort. Lent his voice to animated works such as Sander Cohen (and others) in the "Bioshock" videogame franchise; also Baron Ünterbheit on "The Venture Bros."
Amy Hargreaves	Kimberly	Lainie Jensen on "13 Reasons Why"; Maggie Mathison on "Homeland"; Sam in Blue Ruin; Ellen in How He Fell in Love.
Jamie Galen	Kyle	Bill in Beethoven's Third; Mitch in The Forsaken.
David Hemblen	Dr. Fromberg	Serokin in Rollerball (2002); Archer in Tommy Boy; Jones in Short Circuit 2; Det. Dick Hargrove on the awful Mr. T vehicle "T and T"; and Jonathan Doors on "Earth: Final Conflict." Voiced cartoon Big Bads such as Magneto on the "X-Men" animated cartoon, Lord Dread in the "Captain Power" franchise, and Shere Khan in the later Jungle Book DTV (non-Disney) films.


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