movieman_kev
Silly me, I thought that "Blood Trails" was the worst film that I'd have the misfortune to watch today. But lo and behold, here comes "Brain Twisters" to again prove me wrong, oh so VERY wrong.This relatively bloodless tale of an insane scientist (but aren't they all) who's experiments with a video game make his student subjects into mindless murderous psychopaths, has nothing going for it. Insanely bad acting, and horribly disjointed storyline that at times I think was merely jotted haphazardly on paper cocktail napkins. This stinker not only scrapes the bottom of the proverbial barrel, but permanently resides there. It can't get much worse than this.
SanteeFats
About the only redeeming thins about this movie is Farrah Forke, from Wings fame, is in it. The guy who plays the professor is not a very good actor. He does get the smarmy, superior academician snobbish down very well. The professor is doing psycho experiments on some of his students that cause them to go nuts when they see flashing lights and kill innocent bystanders. Terminating the experiments which have been funded by some corporation the professor is in turn terminated a further into the film. There is a detective who is investigating some of the murders/suicides and starts dogging the prof. Then the FBI gets involved, he keeps his investigation going and gets suspended for two weeks. The corporate exec that is masterminding the cover up gets killed by one of the experiments. I don't know this a pretty uneven and poorly done movie. Why was it made? Who knows, someone with more money than taste? Wil;l I watch it again? Oh, Hades no!!!
BA_Harrison
College professor Dr. Phillip Rothman (Terry Londeree) uses members of his class as unwitting guinea pigs in an experiment, exposing them to video graphics (that look like the loading screen from a mid-80s computer game) which cause sudden violent outbursts. Cop Frank Turi (Joe Lombardo) investigates these strange occurrences with help from Laurie (Farrah Forke), one of Rothman's students...Although Brain Twisters meets some of the criteria necessary for an entertaining slice of early 90s cheeze—a silly story, poor acting, terrible fashion, naff computer effects—it seriously neglects the two main staples of the 'genre'—gratuitous nudity and OTT splatter—thus failing to qualify as an essential title for fans of trash cinema.Forke is certainly fit enough for some gratuitous flashing of bare flesh, as evidenced in the brief swimming pool scene that reveals an impressive form, but she remains hidden under nasty, baggy 90s fashion for the remainder of the duration, and despite the film featuring several violent deaths, the gore is limited to a terrible severed head in a jar and an unconvincing slashed throat.
Michael O'Keefe
A university research psychologist, Dr. Phillip Rothman(Terry Londeree) convinces a group of college friends in taking part in an experiment to see if changing colors and patterns of a computer game changes behavior. The software company providing the games figures to use the experiment's results in recouping and making money with expectations the games will become popular among colleges students and would eventually control them. But bad thing is... the students in the experiment are already becoming very violent. A pretty tame thriller. Nothing redeeming. The cast includes: Farrah Forke, Donna Bostany, Heather Ann Barclay, Shura McComb and Joe Lombardo.
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