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CrapScore 60, Certified Crap

Brainscan

“Wanna play? I dare you.”

Certified Crap. CrapScore 60, rated by 1 admin.

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Why it’s crap
A teenager tests a horror game and discovers that the consequences may extend beyond the bedroom screen. The mischievous Trickster and practical gore are the attraction, giving the familiar reality-blurring setup more personality than its gloomy computer packaging suggests.

Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones

The club’s verdict

Acting
6/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
3/10
Dialogue
7/10
Rewatchability
6/10
  • “The game has taken the user agreement much too personally.”

    @flabbergasted_jones, scored it 60

Synopsis and movie facts

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.

Released
1994
Directed by
John Flynn
Running time
96 min

Starring

  • Edward Furlong as Michael
  • Frank Langella as Detective Hayden
  • T. Ryder Smith as The Trickster
  • Amy Hargreaves as Kimberly
  • Jamie Marsh as Kyle
  • Victor Ertmanis as Martin
  • David Hemblen as Dr. Fromberg
  • Vlasta Vrana as Frank

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