Line #15 Film/Brainscan


1	[[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brainscan-1994_cult-movie-poster_4749.jpg]]
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3	->''"Real, unreal, what's the difference? So long as you don't get caught."''
4	-->-- '''The Trickster'''
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6	''Brainscan'' is a 1994 horror film starring Creator/EdwardFurlong, Amy Hargreaves, Creator/FrankLangella and T. Ryder Smith.
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8	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 Trickster goads him on to continue....
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10	!!This film has the examples of:
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12	* AccidentalMurder: Det. Hayden's partner is killed by a posse when he is mistaken for the perpetrator for the recent killings.
13	* AllJustADream: Everything between [[spoiler:Michael playing the first disc and Michael getting shot on the perceived fourth disc, depending on your interpretation of the [[OrWasItADream final scene]].]]
14	* AnythingButThat: Trickster claims he wouldn't rat Michael out if he were electrocuted, had his fingers broken, or eyes gouged, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking but he draws the line at country-western music]].
15	* AnArmAndALeg: Michael takes his first victim's foot as a souvenir, and he places it his fridge.
16	* ArtificialIntelligence: Igor, who answers to Michael’s commands given to his computer. It also takes care of his phonelines.
17	* BigBad: The Trickster, the avatar of ''Brainscan''.
18	* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:When Michael refuses to kill Kimberly, The Trickster possesses him to force him to do it.]]
19	* FictionalVideoGame: The eponymous TheMostDangerousVideoGame.
20	* {{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 into his eyes]].
21	* FlashbackNightmare: Michael has a nightmare of the night when his mother died in a car crash.
22	* 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".
23	* HumanoidAbomination: The Trickster is the incarnation of ''Brainscan'' itself, and is an ImplacableMan capable of teleportation and [[spoiler:DemonicPossession.]]
24	* TheIgor: The representation of Michael's computer's avatar is a stereotypical Igor, who calls him "master".
25	* KickTheDog: The Trickster's attempts to drive Michael into willingly committing murder revolve around this.
26	-->'''Trickster:''' [[IronicEcho Buddies forever?]]
27	* MissingMom: Michael's mother died in a car accident when he was young, and it left quite an impact on him.
28	* ThePeepingTom: Michael really likes clandestinely spying upon and photographing his crush Kimberly, facilitated by both being close neighbors with bedroom windows facing each other. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie he discovers that she also likes to do the same thing to him, much to his pleasure.]]
29	* ThePowerOfLove: Michael is able to stop the game and fight back The Trickster's influence when Kimberly proclaims her love for him.
30	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:When Det. Hayden shoots Michael, it is revealed that everything that has transpired has been [[AllJustADream just a part of the game]]. [[OrWasItADream But the scene in the early part of the credits begs to differ]]....]]
31	* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Trickster breaks his own fingers and digs out his eyes in front of Michael.

Context Film / Brainscan