History Film / Brainscan

* FingerlessGloves: Worn by The Trickster.

* BadBadActing: Edward Furlong's acting skills dramatically decreased between Terminator 2 and this. The film's director John Flynn said of Furlong's acting, "Eddie Furlong was a 15-year-old kid who couldn’t act. You had to 'slap him awake' every morning. I don’t want to get into knocking people, but I was not a big Eddie Furlong fan."

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:When Michael refuses to kill Kimberly, The Trickster possesses him to to force him to do it.]]

''Brainscan'' is a 1994 horror film starring Creator/EdwardFurlong, Amy Hargreaves, Frank Langella and T. Ryder Smith.

* AllJustADream: Everything between [[spoiler:Michael playing the first disc and Michael getting shot on the perceived fourth disc, depending on your interpretation of the final scene.]]

* DemonicPossession: When Michael refuses to kill Kimberly, The Trickster possesses him to to force him to do it.

Michael Brower is a shut-in who spends his time with horror films, video games and spying on his neighbour Kimberly. One day his friend Kyle introduces him to ''Brainscan'', a horror video game that puts the player in a role of a murderer. The game is fun, but he finds out that the game is more real than it seems, as the murders he commits in it also happen in real life. Understandably, he becomes reluctant to continue, but the game's avatar The Trickter goads him on to continue....

* BigBad: The Trickser, the avatar of ''Brainscan''.

Michael Brower is a shut-in who spends his time with horror films, video games and spying on his neighbour Kimberly. One day his friend Kyle introduces him to ''Brainscan'', a horror video game that puts the player in a role of a murderer. The game is fun, but he finds out that the game is more real than it seems, as the murders he commits in it also happen in real life. Understandably, he becomes reluctant to continue, but the game's avatar The Trickters goads him on to continue....

* {{Fingore}}: When The Trickster tells Michael that there was an another witness to his initial murder, he tells Michael that ''he'' wouldn't rat him out, even if his fingers were broken. To drive this home, he starts breaking his fingers. To drive this point further home [[EyeScream he sticks his fingers to his eyes]].

* TheGamePlaysYou: Not only do the murders in ''Brainscan' turn out to be real, the game zombifies the player and makes him a homicidal sleepwalker, it also lets out an evil punk known as The Trickster into the real world who forces him to continue "playing".
* TheIgor: The representation of Michael’s computer's avatar is a stereotypical Igor, who calls him "master".

Michael Brower is a shut-in who spends his time with horror films, video games and spying on his neighbour Kimberly. One day his friend Kyle introduceds him to ''Brainscan'', a horror video game that puts the player in a role of a murderer. The game is fun, put he finds out that the game is more real than it seems, as the murders he commits in it also happen in real life. Understandably, he becomes reluctant to continue, but the game's avatar The Trickters goads him to continue....

* AccidentalMurder: Det. Hayden's partner is killed by a posse when he is mistaken for the perpetrator for th reent killings.
* AnArmAndALeg: Michael takes his first victim's foot as a souvenir that he places in his fridge.

* DemonicPossession: When Michael refuses to kill Kimberly, The Trickster possesses him in an attempt to to force him to do it.

* {{Fingore}}: When The Trickster tells Michael Micahel that there was an another witness to his initial murder, he tells Michael that ''he'' wouldn't rat him out, even if his finger were broken. To drive this home, he starts breaking his fingers. To drive this further drive this claim home [[EyeScream he sticks fingers to his eyes]].

* FictionalVideoGame: The eponymous game.