UNDERRATED or AWFUL?! - Brainscan (1994)

[@THATjeffdelaney]

This one brings back weird emotions for me. So, throughout the 90's, I worked in a movie theater. One of my favorite things to do was put together the standees for upcoming movies to sit in the lobby. BRAINSCAN was amazing because it was an inset of the Trickster's face, but it was printed so that wherever you walked his gaze followed you. Plus, it had this spotlight that extended from the top and focused down on the face. It was awesome. Spent all day on that sucker, and even cut my finger doing so. The next day when I came into work, it was all bent up and being held together by silver Duck tape. The light was all dangly. So I asked the assistant manager what the heck happened, and he said that, after the last show of the previous night, he came out of the office to find two people dragging the standee down the hall toward the exit. So he yelled, and they ran, and he chased them. Once in the parking lot, they threw it into their trunk, but the lid wouldn't shut. As they sped away, they hit a speed bump, the standee went flying out into the air, the electrical cord got caught on the bumper, and they drug it ten yards before it broke free and they vanished into that good night. So we lived with a gimpy BRAINSCAN standee for the rest of the run. And that is my true BRAINSCAN story.

[@grummelameise]

i gotta say, thats a good story ;-)

[@THATjeffdelaney]

@@grummelameise , Thx! It devastated me when it happened. I tried to keep all the standees we got.

[@toweypat]

And thus you learned one of life's enduring lessons: always chain your "Brainscan" standee to a post or a counter so that a pair of teenaged hoods don't try to steal it.

[@THATjeffdelaney]

@@toweypat 😂😂😂

[@jeffgray7922]

I currently work at a theater and can attest to this kind of thing happening. We always keep at least two employees downstairs at all times, even after we have closed so that they can keep an eye on things and help guests with any issues/questions. Some people have a tendency to do bad things when they believe they are alone/not being watched.

[@s3.14dervision]

To me, the Brainscan monster's face looks like what rich, aging celebs' and trophy wives' skin looks like after years of excessive plastic surgery. 😮

[@NefariousKoel]

Knew I recognized it! The Joan Rivers method of Hollywood face stretchery.

[@FayAlexGG]

I see it

[@DeffoZappo]

He looks like he might bust out singing " you spin me right round"😜

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@DeffoZappoOh, you're saying he DOESN'T start singing bad 80s songs?!? Well, this movie blows!

[@DeffoZappo]

@shawnfields2369 sad but true..... But John Connor is in it!!! Haircut and all!!!

[@BubblegumCrash332]

Mike has a CRT widescreen. Now that's luxury

[@targuscinco]

I had a double wide when I was younger but nobody thought I was cool. Stupid Mike with fancy boy TV KZbin video thing. A double wide, it's a whole domicile. Panties should be hitting the floor with a squish. Dang it all to heck!

[@favoritemustard3542]

I had to play my Nintendo on a hand-me-down B&W TV for the 1st year, BUT it was in my own room ~ luxury! 👍📺👍

[@jennyanydots2389]

Probably helps that viewing experience when he's watching his CP

[@purepessimist]

I'm a black woman and I wanted his room so bad. The soundtrack slaps too.

[@purepessimist]

I still believe this is where they got the idea for siri. They should make that Butler answering service. I'd love that.

[@heeeeeresrossy]

I bet that teacher was like - "Mark, do you like movies about gladiators?"

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

"You ever seen a grown man naked Mark?"

[@heeeeeresrossy]

@@henrywallacesghost5883 Henry, dya ever hang around a gymnasium?

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

"Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?"

[@RogueTheology]

“Have you ever heard the story of Achilles and Patroclus?”

[@shellac23]

Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

[@silvernova354]

"Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular - it's not very good, it's actually very shitty". You have my sympathies - kids had to be tough back then.

[@helioselexandros]

And i know we all remember the paun of renting a shitty game and being stuck with it all weekend. I rarely got to rent video games and when i did getting a bad one was really aggravating

[@nozoto]

That's the dark side of early video game era: parents bought for their kids based solely on brand recognition. Also they didn't want anything for their kids looking violent or edgy (which is ironically what kids find fun in the first place). Crappy developers knew that parents were clueless wallet openers only reading the title cover, so they didn't even try to make quality products. You were only ever lucky if you somehow had a Sunsoft game: Batman or Gremlins 2: the new batch for example. Top of the top among them.

[@skylx0812]

Ever hear of a TRS-80? They had these torture machines in schools. Gave off a high pitched noise if you turned your head slightly to the side and its games were boring.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

In Japan it was a Donald Duck game.

[@planescaped]

Back when game of the year had a different meaning...

[@Morboeatspeople]

Fun fact: the end credits to this movie, was the first time my best friend and I heard Primus. :) thanks for doing a real childhood classic!

[@rolmodel12.]

Great song and a great album!

[@NathanLJustice]

Yeah, that's the only reason I watched it. I knew they were on the soundtrack.

[@mototryph2]

Welcome to this world

[@cmaden78]

That may be the movie's only redeeming quality. Fun fact: the club scene in Ace Ventura pet detective was a band called cannibal corpse I believe, and I'm pretty sure it was at a bar called the Button South, my friends and I were waaay too young (13/14) but we didn't look it and we were there ( girls in South Florida bars in the 90s didn't really ever get carded or pay door😂❤ God we had fun)

[@voided_reality6863]

Really? So you watched the credits and not the film? Because Primus' "Welcom to this World" was in like the first couple scenes with Trickster.

[@Ryan-k9w]

"If I start yelling people can hear me! Right?"...😂

[@danderson8431]

14:26 ….thats because Edward Furlong stated in the music video “Living On The Edge” the lead single from “Get A Grip”.

[@SunBunz]

One of my favorites as a kid! Trickster scared the BEJEEZUS outta me, but he’s SO fun. Not necessarily an Oscar-winning movie, not Edward Furlong’s best performance, but overall a fun, campy flick. I wish they’d make a video game with T. Ryder Smith coming back. He voiced Sander Cohen in Bioshock, he’s a gifted performer. He used to be a theater actor only, and it shows.

[@robotrix]

He is The Trickster Dead by Daylight SHOULD have

[@Audieoxenfree86]

holy shit little monsters actually existed. thank you for giving a name to a movie that was a weird fever dream in my memory. looked it up. monster played by howie mandel. wtf.

[@jennyanydots2389]

That movie made me pa turn on Fred Savage.

[@albertoserrano67]

Howies early Hollywood days

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@albertoserrano67 Now he's doing CP in Australia with Mel Gibson.

[@FanboyFlicks]

I remember seeing that movie as a kid but at one point forgetting if it was actually really or just a dream I had

[@nicholasrella6904]

How can anyone forget Little Monsters? I just now remembered My Pet Monster stuffed toys. I completely forget they existed. I loved those as a kid. This whole Little Monsters discussion just reminded me. I love 80's and 90's nostalgia.

[@FreddyKruegerRealEstate]

Imagine doing Terminator 2, and then doing this right after? Edward had a few short but interesting little career there. He basically was the stereotypical dysfunctional nerdy 90s kid.

[@hiddentreasures5676]

He was the best! I love every single movie with him from the 90s. Even the bad ones. He had that special something that makes me always come back and watch. Also he was incredibly handsome but never empty.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@hiddentreasures5676 Eddie made his pumpkin headed nature work for him, not against him like most people with down syndrome.

[@theasexualvampire13]

I just watched him in Pet Sematary 2, yeah, he definitely played a type that wasn't too far off from his actual personality from what I hear.

[@RAW1980]

After terminator he did pet cemetery 2, American heart, and a home of our own. He worked with a lot of big name celebrities. He just got type casted to horror amd drama cause he could cry and scream . And American history x .. Well that says it all. Not too shabby.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@RAW1980 He also did a lot of CP and barnyard themed video tapes.

[@BigDumbMovie]

Yes! I love when people talk about this movie. We have a full podcast as well as video on this one too. I saw it for the first time when we covered it and I really regret not growing up with this because I would have loved it as a kid.

[@jaystreet46]

I definitely grew up with this and I loved it!

[@jonb2756]

@@jaystreet46 me too

[@Hykje]

A classic example of the fact that Hollywood doesn't understand computers.

[@jennyanydots2389]

Not that many people did in 1994.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

​@jennyanydots2389 About ten years after that, a director at work (who was fairly young) found it amazing that I had a computer at home!

[@Axterix13]

Even if they did, it typically doesn't translate well to the screen. Hence why we get a lot of computer stuff in movies that looks like Hackers, rather than the more realistic hacking found in Sneakers.

[@LuckyDogGaming]

This is what they imagined computers would be in the future. Kind of like how people in the 50’s said there would be flying cars by now. It’s not a question of not understanding.

[@chrismeandyou]

They saw Scotty in Star Trek talk to a computer "Hello computer"

[@seanduncan3958]

"Welcome back TOO the show..." I hear this and know quality follows. Thank you for what you do.

[@MeliesCinemagician]

I like to do the hand motion with him every time a new video comes out.

[@seanduncan3958]

@@MeliesCinemagician I do the same!

[@RageInEden]

The Trickster looks like F. Murray Abraham in Star Trek: Insurrection.

[@Er1ks3n]

I wish there had been an actual horror club at my school. Instead we would watch Lucio Fulci movies at my house while eating pickled pig’s feet (for ambience).

[@hieronymusvonlipschitz]

That sounds real enough to me

[@Capthowdy098]

As a 13yr old upon release, I loved this movie and still look back on it with a grin. Also this film introduced me to Primus win-win 😂

[@MrRezRising]

I knew one of the actors in the movie back then and he told me Primus was chosen bc they were the cheapest to license. That scene where Trickster jumps all over the bed, T. Ryder did three takes, each to a different song bc they hadn't decided which one to use yet. I couldn't wait to see it, they were a fav band back then.

[@zacharyneely]

Yo this is trippy. I remember seeing this film when I was younger. This video just brought me back to this forgotten film Thanks

[@GiovanniPeluso]

Masterpiece! I remember watching the Siskel and Ebert review of this and then waited 20+ years to finally sit through it. Your insertions into these movies are some of my favorite shit ever.

[@krisherdown]

The closest most could have imagined to a horror club in those days was Chainsaw and Dave walking around during Summer School.

[@jesseperry9602]

Well...and The Monster Squad.

[@jenniferphillerups8411]

How did he interact with the game? When he called the hotline he was given an auditory command to start the game by staring into the lighted eyes. hypnotic suggestions “You walk in and find a knife” “The pretty girl next door sees you limping home” Edward Furlong was also credited as ‘Joyrider’ in the music video for Aerosmith: Livin' on the Edge the year prior (1993) I’m a fan of this movie, it gives me warm nostalgia

[@MynameisDUmass]

Same, one of the few movies I've watched on acid in my early years 😂❤

[@FanboyFlicks]

I get that he was given auditory commands but the game has to somehow know what choices he’s making so that I can then adjust to those choices. Without that, it’s not really a game, it’s just a hypnosis tape. He could be relaying what choices he’s making out loud to the phone but my issues is that we don’t ever SEE that

[@jenniferphillerups8411]

@@FanboyFlicks We never see him hang up the phone, so I think it interacts with him the whole time It might also be that he doesn’t have a lot of choices in the game. Maybe a ‘choose A or B’ like a choose your own adventure book where there are only so many options and endings. Voice activated or interactive PC games did exist in the Mid90s that would react to voice prompts and with clocks running, they trigger events and scenes to move you along We also never see him use the bathroom … so maybe you’re onto something

[@stop-the-greed]

dail up internet

[@KasumiRINA]

@@FanboyFlicks considering how poorly Lawnmower Man aged, they made the right choise of not showing much of the game itself, just the mindscrew over what's real and what's virtual reality. Good they didn't use tape since it would be retroactively called the Ring knockoff, even if that released not promoting Get a Grip tour but around the next Aerosmith album, Nine Lives.

[@garinsparks7041]

Mark, you're getting into movies is UNDEFEATED!!! Hope you have a Happy Holidays!!!

[@supersaiyanbino]

The "so youre telling me there's a chance" add was awesome!!

[@jax2670]

Thank you for specifying the year the movie premiered. I always try to guess based on the fashion and end up having to google it to verify. As an 11 year old, I thought the lead actor, Edward Furlong seemed so mature and cool

[@howesteve966]

CGI back then was very expensive, and I am sure this movie didn't have the budget to give you a visual depiction of the subconscious

[@frankcolumbo4481]

Brilliant placement of yourself in the clips! 😂😂😂😂

[@madmarduk1936]

Btw just subscribed. Your way of presenting is fun and entertaining. Which is really important for a channel like this which is based on opinions over things that can get people pretty hot. Zero chance any two people are going to totally agree about every movie so I think being entertaining and general attitude are even more important than the opinions themselves. I look forward to more of your videos!

[@anotherplatypus]

This and Jacob's Ladder are my favorite horror movies, and no one's ever heard of either. Thanks for covering it.

[@xBINARYGODx]

oh palease, no on has heard of JL? There are like hundreds of hours of video on youtube about it millions of collectively views - come on now, son, lets get naked!

[@KasumiRINA]

Ah Jacob's Ladder might not be mainstream, but it was copied and referenced by everything, from Silent Hill games and Evil Within to Oppenheimer and the Sixth Sense. It's a must-watch!

[@anotherplatypus]

@@KasumiRINA I showed my brother Jacob's Ladder and he introduced me to the later Hellraiser movies... The 5th one and after also feel inspired (not derivative) this way and stand alone as good indi horror movies imho

[@tjkhanks]

I love the scenes when you put yourself in the movies. This one had me rolling. The wig you wore was so funny and fit your character perfectly. 🤣

[@nozoto]

4:05 You know, the speech of the principal about substance abuse escapism is pretty ironic, if you take into account that Edward Furlong wrecked his acting career over that... So... Yeah... This movie didn't only foresee some of the trends of modern gaming culture but also its main actor's fate as well, hahaaa. Thankfully, Furlong is doing better these days as he has been sober and working on new projects. So, good for him 😊

[@MrScratch69]

It put some hard miles on him though. Lord what a wreck.

[@slubberdagollian]

I remember hiding out in the bathrooms in High School working on DnD campaign based on Stephen King's "The Stand." Good memories.

[@jennyanydots2389]

I used to hide out in the bathrooms and furiously JO three four five times a day sometimes.

[@ericleejohnson1402]

I once looked up how much of the Trickster's appearance was prosthetics. All of it. Literally all of it. Even the ears.

[@shawnfields2369]

So...nothing even remotely "realistic" about this Trickster guy? I thought he was just an edgy 80s pop star trying to either be Ozzy Osborne, or Christopher Lloyd, if they were stuck in an obscure mid 90s horror movie, that's trying to be a poor man's version of Lawnmower Man, meets a VERY poor man's version of Videodrome, meets a poor man's version of The Matrix sequels, meets the poorer man's version of Transcendence, meets a poorly done man's version of Tron. But it doesn't look too bad as a movie. As an actual game, maybe it probably would've been more successful?

[@michaels7984]

I'm pretty sure it's just Ted Danson in a wig.

[@Holypikemanz]

"how many exits are in this room?" hilarious question

[@deadlynightshde]

Criminally underrated. Ive never seen anyone talk about this movie. One of my favorites

[@troin3925]

10:45 The Trickster menacingly pointing a camcorder at the kid reminds me of the Mystery Man from Lost Highway.

[@vercoda9997]

The editing around the 7-minute mark - Chef's kiss. Superb stuff. 👏

[@thenerdsentertainmentchann7922]

Oh, hi Mark!

[@oswerk]

Oh hey Johnny! What's up?

[@desertcoliseum]

@@oswerk You obviously haven't seen The Room

[@HeriEystberg]

​@@desertcoliseumthat's what she said!

[@oswerk]

@@desertcoliseum

[@suzybearheart530]

​@@desertcoliseum So anyway, how's your sex life?

[@Zach_Beebe]

This video unlocked a deep seeded memory of watching this movie shortly after it came out. Loved it.

[@bensneb360]

The Trickster is a fun & underrated villain, between the look and T. Ryder Smith's charisma, he is so much fun to watch and I would of loved to have seen him in the role more

[@someone28]

I was in the same club. Mississauga chapter, used to skip class at my school to go to the mall that was 500 feet away that had a theater that charged $2 for a matinee viewing. I saw so many movies that way. My parents never found out.

[@shanellsplace]

I remember watching this back in the day just because Edward Furlong was in it but ended up being freaked out by The Trickster 😂😂

[@AdamManning-f8n]

Underrated movie, rented it on VHS when it was released and enjoyed the concept and style very much. Most people would never had heard of it but it deserves an audience

[@alicewright4322]

He drinks milk because it represents innocence. but he can't drink it because he has been corrupted. the milk is his soul. he is trying to drink a glass of his soul. when a child drinks milk in a film it represents innocence. when an adult drinks it, it represents weirdness or deviance eg. clockwork orange.

[@jennyanydots2389]

He drinks milk because it loosely resembles sea men and he always wanted to be a sailor.

[@iancharest7655]

This immediately brought to mind The Professional, and I think your statement stands

[@JamieWilliams-rh8vl]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@ Anytime. You're welcome boy.

[@katsrebro4684]

The nostalgia of this movie I watched several times in the mid-90s. 😅 Memory unlocked! I just realized I was the Kimberly to my neighbor cute computer nerd boy and he thought I watched him back but it was actually my thirsty grandma being a creep. 😂

[@NefariousKoel]

It seem thirsty grandmas have always been an ever-present threat.

[@dktrted]

Wow ... using the Lawnmower Man as a positive counterpoint. That's the sickest burn I've ever heard.

[@mikeshark6927]

I can’t wait to see this video. I’m sure it’s going to be your best one yet. Been following you for years. Your videos are awesome.

[@jeremielebrun3637]

2:49 my parents would have been like : "ok, you're epileptic. no more gaming."

[@shawnfields2369]

Really? Because i have epilepsy too...but my parents still let me play games though...but unfortunately, I don't have any friends or girls who are interested enough to care...or interested in me at all, honestly. And also, because I have epilepsy, I couldn't even graduate high school 12 years ago. I had a seizure, and I don't even remember what happened afterward. Maybe I starred in a bad horror movie with the kid from T2?

[@TemperedMedia]

How did I miss this one?! The edits are gold, Mark!

I have a friend who insists this film was edited shortly after it was released. He saw it right when it came out and claims there was a really disturbing scene where Furlong’s character has a nightmare about raping his girlfriend’s corpse. He told his friends about it, but when they went to see it, and when my friend saw it again, the scene was gone. Anyone have any info on this? Or is my friend crazy?

[@atomiswave2]

You're Canadian sense of humor is spot on brah

[@irkalla100]

Im 41 years old. I want an apartment like that!

[@motherwar_87]

Between 6:04 to 7:08 is when I realised how much I cherish this channel!

[@THE8BITWARRIOR1]

You’re my type of person I’d like to learn more about movies from. ☮️ subscribed 🤓 greetings from Albuquerque New Mexico 🔥

[@treyliles117]

This movie was written by Andrew Kevin Walker, who would later go on to write Se7en (one of my favorite movies of all time).

[@jennyanydots2389]

Seven would have been a decent movie if Thom Cruze was cast instead of Morgan Freeman or Brad Pitt. Thom could have played both characters more genuinely.

[@WILIscredia]

So fired up that somebody is covering this, I keep *meaning* to do something on it...but I'm lazy. I am graciously living through you...with grattitude

[@joeshats1]

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine.

[@smallies7154]

Salt and pepper and heavy D up in the limousine

[@OrbGoblin]

lol oh man that Snoopy game. My brother and I got stuck in this camper for a weekend and that's the only game they had. Not the greatest memories.

[@andymcfly]

Your editing has gotten so good.

[@georgeh6856]

I hated CD caddies. I worked in a computer lab in the 1990s, doing Unix server and workstation software development. When we had to use CDs like for new OS builds which happened a lot, I would have to put the CD in a caddy, and then insert the caddy into the CD drive. If the caddy was missing, then I would have to go looking for one. Such a pain.

[@gigeorge6sic6]

17:18 it’s so weird that a lot ppl actually get those nightmares about about forgetting a school project that is due last minute. I still get those nightmares, specifically related to my university program, even though I graduated years ago

[@JF-em6hr]

I can't get enought of the "in-takes". It's like taking Rifftrax to the next level...man.

[@kevinmcbride4269]

The Snoopy/Nintendo interlude was brilliant! Thanks for that...

[@xax888servo7]

One thing worse than the "it was all a dream" ending is "the writers didn't even care to try" ending

[@madmarduk1936]

They left the ending open to several creepy interpretations. They just didn't do all of the mental legwork for people like movies tend to do.

[@ChristopherDimitriousPhanara]

Hey Mark!!! Love your stuff and appreciate all the hard work you put into the vids. Your one good looking nerd. You Rock!!!

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

It's strange that Edward Furlong was in multiple movies and the only two we know are Terminator 2 and American History X.

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

Pet Semetary 2, Pecker, Detroit Rock City, A Home of Our Own, Before and After and that's just off the top of my head.

[@whoisdavidpeterson]

2:30 "it's what I had, and I was grateful". This sums up my childhood with the gameboy and godzilla (1990) LMAO

[@MrTravisofthecosmos]

Mark, in the 80s we had the video game “Platoon,” for the NES. Looking back on it, there is nothing more depressing than playing a Vietnam War themed game, especially based on the movie “Platoon.”

[@godchi1dvonsteuben770]

You had my sub at "his was just more perverted"! Lol, genuinely laughed, and that's rare 😊

[@vasilypugh696]

Definitely underrated. And Trickster was brilliant.

[@jennyanydots2389]

Too much CP in Trickster

[@juanrangel6880]

4:29. How many exits are in this room... Dude i was drinking pop when you said that.... Out the nose but worth it. I love it when you put yourself in the movie😂😂😂

[@Cristopher.C]

great, now I'm gonna have to watch this movie

[@ColinLenehan]

Your editing is amazing!

[@WTF_WHAT_THE_FLICK]

The trickster kind of looks like Kathy Griffin now. I'm also convinced Kathy Griffin it's just Andy Dick in drag.

[@louloubydesign1926]

lol, good one

[@fraziocolucciio9213]

Highly underrated movie. Plus i love the part when the truckster turns off Edward Furlong 's metal music and turns on PRIMUS lmao

[@jnmortell66]

The poor man's Videodrome.

[@shawnfields2369]

The poor, poor POOR man's "Lawnmower Man", meets "The Matrix", or all the bad Matrix sequels, like...literally ALL of them, meets, "Transcendence", a bad, and boring movie from 2014, that tried to be the poor man's "Tron", that I haven't seen, but even the main actor on the poster for Transcendence looks as bored as I am. Ok, so to sum it up this film is the equivalent of the poor, poor, POOR man's Lawnmower Man, meets the bad Matrix movies, meets the poorer man's "Transcendence", meets a poor man's "Tron" meets the poor man's "Videodrome". Does that sound like a good movie or game to you? No? Me neither. And I've never even heard of this movie until just now. Mainly because when it came out, I would've only been a year old...

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@shawnfields2369 The second matrix wasn't that bad... the third wasn't great though and ugh the fourth one shit the bed. There will be a fifth however. That should be worse, hopefully Doogie Howser doesn't return.

[@shawnfields2369]

@jennyanydots2389 Yeah, I guess that's true. 2nd Matrix was OK, 3rd was confusing, but had a pretty awesome fight at the end, that weirdly enough, reminds of the fights from DBZ, but the 4th, yeah, I think they just made that one out of spitefulness. Because even I could tell it was going to be the worst of the Matrix sequels. So, sorry if I didn't word that properly enough earlier. Maybe this concept could've worked better as a game, rather than a movie? I don't know...I was only a year old back in 1994... I didn't start playing games until the N64 in 1996. I loved the N64. But I genuinely hope there's no Matrix 5. They should've stopped after 3. 4 was just the plot of a bad video game movie, that's not even a real game, but at least Keanu Reeves still nailed it. It's impossible to make that guy look bad, because of how cool he is. Even in something as bad as Cyberpunk 2077, he still kills it. So even if they don't learn anything from how awful "Matrix Resurrections"(or as Jeremy Jahns put it: "Matrix 4: Regurgitations"). Which is the more fitting title for it. But they could save that for the 5th one..."Matrix 5: Return of the Regurgitations: Part 2: Loss of even MORE of The Audience Than Before."

[@jnmortell66]

@@shawnfields2369 I think you're right, sir. I was a teen when this came out, and I remember thinking, "Did they recycle the Zelda mask from Pet Sematary to use for the Trickster?"

[@jonahweinshenker]

Videodrome might be one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen Cronenburg is out of his mind.

[@unnamed715]

When I saw the "6yo me writing 'and it was all just a dream' at the end of my short story" meme it instantly reminded me of this classic gem.

[@Hykje]

A horror movie about a VHS tape? -that's just silly. Good that they changed it.

[@tessacanterbury8935]

Ringu or the Ring is awesome

[@icebergherg2019]

The background music in the very beginning of the film is so nice. Reminds me of talking to my scale by young adolph

[@Helloyousilverdevil]

Edward furlong in a movie after T2 and before he went off the rails? I AM SO DOWN.

[@Trist805]

Little Odessa was a great movie with him and Tim Roth. American Heart was good too with him and Jeff Bridges.

[@TheArtofGuitar]

I think he interfaces with Trickster through the flashing light hypnosis part, so it's all in his head and he doesn't need any gear.

[@Generalfund]

8:06 - BRO! So glad you mentioned that! This movie's antagonist always reminded me of Little Monsters - another film that just creeps me the f*ck out...

[@user-ul4nw3bn5m]

14 at that time, Papa John's Pizza, & Wolfenstein 3D on the SNES...Funny I remember exactly when I saw the film lol! My dad always went out on the weekends & left me with a couple hundred bucks & said "Watch your little brother...go get games, movies, & order pizza" lol! Such nostalgia...TY!

[@cameroncorrosive925]

God I love this piece of cheesy gold. I watch Brainscan at least twice a year. Then again grew up on stuff like Tales from the Crypt so it just hits that goofy, nostalgia for me.

[@BrotherJP333SP]

Man this episode was funny as hell. Good stuff again Mark.

[@endowarrior7399]

This is one of your best episodes. Ive been watching you since jump.

[@whypothetical]

That animation/effects of the Trickster coming out of the TV screen is awesome even by today's standards.

[@VaterOrlaag]

Trickster looks like F. Murray Abraham's character in Star Trek: Insurrection. Back when he was in his rebellious phase.

[@Moshtache88]

One of your best videos yet! “Who does that?!?!?!?“

[@_JoJo83_]

The Trickster always reminded me of the villain from the 1986 movie Trick or Treat. This movie is definitely highly nostalgic.

[@TheBlueB0mber]

I felt your "awkward interaction scene" on a personal level

[@CMc-v7z]

What I love about Mark inserting himself in to the movies is, the outfits are ALMOST right. The fact that they are just a little off actually adds an uncanny valley type effect which makes it even funnier.

[@Fottow]

To quote Bruce Greene: "Stop, talking, about - Lawn-mower -man!" *please keep mentioning it*

[@user-gb1pr8tw8v]

I'll say it again - Mark's ability to insert himself in the film he is reviewing is unparalleled - truly a student of the art.

[@DaymanOurSavior]

The dumb and dumber edit was GOLDEN

[@MrRezRising]

I knew T. Ryder Smith back when he filmed this. He was working at a bookstore here in nyc called The Drama Book Shop. My gf worked there then. T. Ryder was trying to break out of theater and into movies, and was hoping Brainscan would become a series. He disappeared from the shop for a couple months in '93 to film it, then returned, and told me Primus was going to be in the movie. Don't remember much about him other than he was a nice guy who liked my favorite band. Man, been awhile...

[@fuguestatetoo6789]

first time i seen Brainscan was on IFC in early 2000's, and i am still kind of mad i didn't discover it sooner. it's in my top 100.

[@brycestrife5605]

Good stuff as always buddy!❤

[@PuppetDungeon]

For me I was kind of cool with the ambiguous mechanism the game works on. So many times I've seen people try to explain things like that and it always comes off as an infodump or just being dumb. The fact you have to watch it most likely means visual and auditory hypnosis... but the fact he has a seizure over the phone means they prime you to accept the hypnosis using sound. I'd say binaural, but it sounded more like a modem noise really... and phones are not stereo. Most likely in that case it's relying on your subconscious to remember and decode something faster than a human can consciously register. In any event, it's a cool concept and fun flick.

[@sethkaicer319]

Mark ran around my backyard naked while doing impersonations of Elvis Presley 😎🎸🍺🕺

[@ajhproductions2347]

“A healthier version of Steven Tyler” 😂😂😂☠️☠️ true brilliance right there my man 🤘