Therefore I'm watching movies. First up, Brain Twisters from 1991. The director appears to have a lot of roles in teh credits, which is an excellent sign.
Oh noes, cute jogging blonde (complete with cassette walkman! and those stupid headphones that floated off your head all the time) has been knocked over by a car. We cut to a geeky looking guy staring at comp/video screens. We know he's geeky as he looks like Seinfeld. oh dear his research project might get cancelled.
We've cut to a couple of college students, Ken doesn't seem alright.
A period of what may loosely be termed character development occurs, followed by the end of Maisie, a rapidly introduced and dispatched character.
The doctor (the earlier geeky guy) appears to be a nefarious character, but refuses to sleep with a slutty student to help her grades. But he does recruit her into his research programme, he works with computer programs. And we all know they lead to bad stuff, he also uses peoples heads when they're dead. People behave oddly, more murder, incompetent cops, irrational behaviour. It's all here. With perms. Lots of perms. And pacing which a glacier would look askance at. Laurie is getting suspicious of the doctor tho', and she doesn't like vanilla icecream. That may come back as highly relevant, but I doubt it.
Slutty girl is now showing she's able to use computer programs. Exciting times, except she's gone a bit crazy which won't end well for her boyfriend. Laurie is now watching a video she stole from the doctors lab, he's now gone around to her place with nefarious intents. Woohoo 8bit graphics, surely by '91 we were past that? But set up for a sequel, which is probably the most terrifying aspect of the movie.
The movie is 91mins long, but feels much much longer.
The full movie is also on youtube if you look really hard ...
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