Brainscan

Brainscan (1994) is a British-American sci-fi horror you can watch online on iFILM. Director John Flynn put Edward Furlong — fresh off Terminator 2 — in front of a mysterious CD-ROM game that promises to tailor every kill to the player's deepest fears. The game delivers.

After one hypnotic session, teenager Michael wakes up holding real evidence of a real murder. Out of the disc steps Trickster, a gleefully unhinged demon played by T. Ryder Smith, who insists the only way out is to keep playing. Detective Brittain, played by Frank Langella, is closing in from the other direction. Michael has nowhere to go — except back into the screen.

The film landed right in the middle of the mid-nineties panic over violent video games, and it plays that anxiety straight. It's a lean 92-minute creature-feature that works best if you remember the specific dread of early CD-ROM horror titles. Stream Brainscan (1994) online on iFILM.