TheMarwood Looking like a cross between Alice Cooper and Joan Rivers, Trickster looks like the victim of a face-lift gone wrong and while not the least bit scary, he's played well by T. Ryder Smith as a campy mascot of a horror villain. It's directed with a strong enough hand by veteran John Flynn, who was simply accepting whatever job came his way at this point in his career. Edward Furlong is watchable enough as a horror fanatic who plays a virtual reality game where the game and reality blend into a pretty mild, but entertaining horror show. While director Flynn has nothing but ill words about his star: "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." Furlong's limited abilities fit into this B grade nonsense fine enough. As for the simplistic script by SEVEN writer Andrew Kevin Walker, this 'is it real or not' gimmick has no payoff and it's obvious from the start what the answer is. Brainscan is pretty dumb and derivative, but it's a passable way to kill some time.

FlashCallahan A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened -- and he's the killer....This was one of those films that was tailor made for the child actor, coming on strong from his recent turn in terminator 2, and the film as a whole disappoints in droves.18 years ago, I doubt this would have been state of the art stuff, with all the video games (on CD, wow) and the one horrible use of CGI, the film does no favours for anyone involved, and should have been forgotten about, much like the Sega Saturn.Furlong looks bored throughout,and instead of being psychotic and crazy, the Trickster ends up just a little bit too snobby and boring.Langella pops up for some gravitas, and really the end product just paved a way for the equally terrible fear dot com, and untraceable.Which all three of these films should be.

Dewey 420 I'm not great with reviews, I'm not even completely certain why when people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is.. I say Brainscan. There's just something about when I think of it..it takes me somewhere in my mind, a dark happy place. The two things that initially attracted me to this movie was the lead actor Edward Furlong (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), and the soundtrack including bands like Primus, White Zombie, and Mudhoney. I don't have a real feel for horror flicks, but I love a good sci-fi, I think this movie would fall somewhere in between the two. In fact, I'm off to watch it now. Just remember... "Real, unreal, what's the difference? So long as you don't get caught." - The Trickster

Justin Bosveld 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.