#28 Arcade

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Plot:

Alex Manning is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO who is more than willing to hand out free samples of the home console version and hype up the game as if his job is depending on it, and it is. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who play the game and lose, are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain; "Arcade". And it gets worse when a virtual reality game begins to take over the minds of teenagers. The computer company felt it would be a good idea to use some of the boy's brain cells in order to make the game's villain more realistic. Instead, it made the game deadly...

A User Review:

So I was at blockbuster and I thought, "Hey, a movie about video games! I love video games! I better get some popcorn 'cause I'll be having fun tonight" So I popped it in my VHS player, and tried REALLY hard to like it. Its basically crap, and there is no point to it. I watched the entire thing, and I've got to say, it was really boring. Basically, these kids are kind of beta-testing some virtual reality game, and things go *cue the dramatic music* horribly wrong! Yeah, seriously, its horse feathers.

I had no idea Seth Green was in this.

Now I suppose I'll have to go back and watch it again. Maybe this time around, I'll enjoy it?

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One of the many Full Moon Releases

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