Movie of the Week: Brainscan October 26, 2011

It has been a year since the last Movie of the Week, and we decided that with Halloween coming the time was ready to check out yet another gaming movie, and yes, this one is horror themed as well.

Brainscan is another movie I originally watched as a kid on HBO many, many years ago.  Based on the early interactive CD-ROM craze of the early 90s, the movie was about the latest video game which promised to put the player into the role of a violent killer.  When Michael (Edward Furlong) plays for the first time, he is shocked to realize that the murder he had committed in the game actually happened.

As absurd as the premise was, the acting was pretty decent, the direction was atmospheric (they did a really good job with Michael’s bedroom) and overall it was a pretty tense movie.  For legal reasons movie clips are not included in the review (sorry), but if you want to watch the movie for yourselves, as of this writing, it should be legimatly watchable on Crackle or you could just get the movie on DVD.