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Brainscan (1994)

★ 6.2 · 288 ratings on TMDB

Wanna play? I dare you.

Brainscan poster★ 6.2

A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.

DirectorJohn Flynn
CastAmy Hargreaves, Claire Riley, David Hemblen, Domenico Fiore, Edward Furlong, Frank Langella
GenresHorror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Brainscan keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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