Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I was surprised how cool this movie really is, a lot better than suggested here. Edward Furlong plays his main character very well in this movie. Honestly I especially like "bad" horror movies because they are many times funny as well, which you don't see in the average "ohh now I am supposed to be scared movie's"The background music is great as well!At last I was also surprised at the actor who play's "The Trickster" (Who acts crazy funny and mad!) (he doesn't play any many movie's which is weird in my opinion!)8/10 for me.

Brainscan is a fun, shocking, and enjoyable horror film that is one of the most underrated films around. Edward (T2) Furlong stars a troubled teen named Michael who loves horror movies and horror video games. His dad is never around and his mom died when he was a kid. He also likes to spy on his school-mate neighbor as she gets dressed. One day he gets a game disc in the mail for a new virtual reality game called Brainscan. A game in which you commit murders. But Michael soon finds a severed foot in his freezer and all hell breaks loose. Especially when the creepy and bizarre Trickster appears...guiding him to certain terror. This film was a pleasant surprised that had a charm about it. Furlong is believable as the troubled teen and turns in a great performance and T. Ryder Smith is both disturbing and cool as the evil demon behind the video game. Trickster easily steals the show. There is some good deaths and some decent gore. You get some T&A, a lot of hard rock music, a nosey detective, horror movie references, and some solid special effects. The movie seems to fly by and the end is a real treat. A solid horror rental for any horror fan. I have no idea why someone tried to compare this to "In the mouth of madness". Too bad the girl next door wasn't actually cute or attractive.

A very strange film. If I had seen it as a younger kid, I think I would have been a lot more into it. With a plot about a virtual reality video game in which you get to indulge in people's sickest innermost urges (killing people).It's a little too violent for pre-teens, yet that's why it would be such a stand out movie at that age. Unfotunately, it's a little too awkward and dumb for anyone over the age of 15 to really get into. The strange mix of the "video game plot", with the extremely voyeuristic murder scenes, and the goofy HOST of the game, "Trickster" who is reminiscent of Howie Mandell's character in Little Monsters, doesn't blend quite so well. The movie overall gives you a very uncomfortable feeling but it's too campy to be one of those "I love it because it's so incredibly hard to watch" movies like Irreversible for example.The cheesy effects are actually pretty entertaining at least. Recommended for Edward Furlong fans and fans of simply bizarre 90's movies, otherwise not so sure.

I saw this film a couple of times when it use to get aired every now and again on TV a couple years' backs. I've been craving to revisit it, since delving in to some of director John Flynn's features (Rolling Thunder, Lock Up, Defiance and Best Seller) over the last year. Looking in at a rental store, I came across a VHS copy and snapped it up. From what I remembered I always seemed to enjoy it, and my reactions are pretty much the same with my latest viewing. Maybe not as good, but I found it to be rather cleverly thought-out (although undoubtedly far-fetched), with a welcomely dangerous and unsettling current. Sure the special effects can look cheap and are shoddily conceived, but the virtual reality context (high tech for the period) and it's critical allegory on society's narrow-minded views on violence (the horror genre here) as escapism entertainment to supposedly fulfil their deranged fantasy's seemed to draw me in and Edward Furlong (stemming of the success he gathered from James Cameron's 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is actually quite good with a sympathetically appealing moody character. Now that trickster creation… T. Ryder Smith plays it more so with a weird comic attitude, but not enough to get overbearing. However a more sinister approach would've been better suited, but still there are a few macabre illustrations and build-ups conveyed through Furlong's hypnosis participation in the game. The trickster can be seen almost as a metaphor as the hidden psyche of our fascination of power, control and death. Frank Lagella gives solid turn as the police detective that grows more suspicious over Furlong's character's possible involvement in the latest spade of gruesome murders. Co-stars Amy Hargreaves and Jamie Marsh provide capably sincere support. Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven (1997) and Brian Owens' material is interesting and packed with horror references, but it's too bad it hits us with an abysmal ending. All the sound work before it seems undone by the revelation and cheapens the whole outcome to a teen thriller with angst. Flynn's direction is assertively complete, if a little staged, but he does get the best out his performers. A soaring rock/metal soundtrack is in full swing. An interactively fun and colourful foray that's mostly well-pulled off. Life's a game. Are you willing to play?