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Brainscan | 1994 | R | - 5.7.6
A virtual reality game becomes real, with violent results. With Edward Furlong.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A teenage boy watches his sweetheart undress through a telescope, and she is briefly shown topless. They later make-out in her bedroom.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - There is a car crash in which a woman is killed and her child is injured. A vampire is chopped up on TV. A sleeping victim is stabbed and his foot severed (the foot is later found in a refrigerator and is then carried around by a dog). A video game character breaks his own fingers, but they repair themselves, and he later eats a raw chicken. A character is crushed by falling bricks, and a another is shot.
LANGUAGE 6 - The F-word is employed numerous times, as well as scatological and anatomical references.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Random murder, voyeurism, lack of parental guidance.
MESSAGE - Some vague point about the mesmerizing effect of video games.
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