Brain Twisters

This film is very much like the superior Strange Behaviour, except there's no Tangerine Dream on the soundtrack and it's more boring. A high cheese factor does help, however. College kids who get involved with some professor's experiments end up killing people and then themselves. The professor's doing this on behalf of some evil corporation who have folks around just in case everything goes wrong, which, this being a horror film, it does.

Just to show how engaging this film this, I've forgotten the names of every single character. There's the main girl who works for the professor, and then there's the professor, who's kind of all over the place acting wise, and then there's this police guy snooping around the professor while trying to put the moves on the girl, while the evil corporation try to quietly clean everything up by shooting people in broad daylight, broadcasting freaky energy waves onto the girl's television, and generally arsing things up.

I know it was released in 1991 but this film has a full on eighties cheese factor on the go. However, there's not much by way of nudity or gore to liven up the cheap proceedings, so if you're intending to watch this one be well warned. The ending is also a bit of a head scratcher (with the worst looking console game ever).

Also – I'm not sure of why the evil corporation where doing what they were doing in the first place.

A college professor warps the minds of several of his students by exposing them to a video game that can bring about extreme changes in personality. This leads to several of them resorting to murder.

This cheap 90's science fiction thriller is not terribly impressive. The basic idea isn't particularly interesting to begin with but the execution is even worse. There are a series of scenes where we see the victims of the brain twisting game committing homicidal acts but none of them are well delivered and the movie subsequently has very little thrills. Its low budget is pretty obvious throughout but that's not really an excuse for the resultant lameness of the entire film. It's just very difficult to care very much what happens because the basic premise isn't presented or explained very well. We don't really see much of the video game and there isn't really a lot of connection between it and the murder scenes. It's just very poorly put together generally. The best moment, however, was a laugh-out-loud one when the professor unveils a severed head in a jar – it's not only presented in a ridiculously matter-of-fact way but it looks disconcertingly like the head of Beaker from The Muppets.

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.

This isn't as bad as most people say it is,, sure I rated it a 3 because it deserves it,, but I have at least 50 movies that I think are worse than this one . No major actors in this,, kinda can see why.. a College Professor has a class he teaches and he uses his students as actual lab experiments,, something to do with the brain , and mind control,, it seems that after going thru these mind control experiments his patients feel the need to go out in public and go on a murderous rampage. in the meantime we have one of our female characters falling for our cop friend, typical , but not what happens after she eats his home cooking. I found the movie to be hilarious at times,, I actually sat thru this one , without much pain to be honest.. I wouldn't say it's a classic,, but not too bad by any stretch of the imagination,, decent "b" movie. maybe slightly below average. but definitely watchable.

College students are being turned into killers by a large corporation when they watch a video screen. This is the premise of "Brain Twisters". The basic problem with this low budget horror/sci-fi film is that it is just so middle-of-the-road. Too good to be bad and not bad enough to be a guilty pleasure, it is just mediocre. The film is "G" rated for all but the last five minutes when it turns "PG". Such stalwarts of this low budget genre as gross-out violence, naked young bodies and serial sexual acts are completely missing. The killings are either off-camera or back to camera. The only attacks fully on camera are a fake beer bottle to the head, fingernails to the throat, and cooked spaghetti to the face. And when someone is killed, there is virtually no blood! The language is entirely sanitized except for two words near the end ( a f__k and a s__t). There is no nudity. The one bath tub scene has enough bubbles in it to cover Mt. Everest. This film proves once and for all that gratuitous nudity, sex and violence may not help a low budget horror flick...but it won't hurt it either.