Review – Brainscan

Normally I’d lead with some kind of “it came from the 80s” remark, but this one actually proved that this kind of picture lingered on at least until 1994. Once again Hollywood schlock-meisters try to get a Freddy Krueger thing going. This time the bad guy goes by The Trickster, and he lives in a video game that bores into the player’s head and creates an ultra-realistic virtual reality where the idea is to kill without being caught. Unfortunately the scariest thing about the bad guy is the terribleness of his punk hairdo appliance. Overall this plays like a violent version of Drop Dead Fred. See if desperate