Starring - Marta Martin (Star Trek, City of Angels), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep), and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm, John Dies at the End)
Release Date - 1992
Genre - Horror/Sci-Fi
Tagline - "In the future, life will be a dream. And reality a nightmare"
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection) (Screener)
Rating (out of 5):
Every October I bury myself in the films centered around Halloween while friends continuously watch horror films. While I rush and panic to find Halloween flicks. This year I've decided to give that up and watch any horror movie I can get my hands on. Its a lot more relaxing that way and I really get into the holiday spirit. Sometime ago Mill Creek Entertainment sent me the Mindwarp/Brainscan double feature on blu. Mindwarp, aka Brain Slasher, was one I had never seen before and it really peaked my interest when I saw it starred Bruce Campbell. As soon as I had the chance I tossed it in.
The film takes place in 2037 and the world is in ruins. Some live in a walled in city where they tune out the real world in live in virtual reality while the world crumbles around them. Judy (Martin) is sick of living this way and when she finds her mother dead she is removed from the city and tossed into the wasteland. She is grabbed by mutant cannibals but is saved by Stover (Campbell). He takes her back to his shack but his home is soon overrun by the mutants and they take them back to their landfill where their leader, her father (Scrimm), reveals that he wants to use her to breed with because the others are mutated and diseased. She is able to free herself from his clutches and she saves Stover in the process but once they get away Stover changes and wants to lead the mutants much like her father was. She then awakens and realizes she was never cast into the wasteland but it was all a test from her real father to see if she has what it takes to take over for him when he retires running the city. 
I'll be completely fucking honest when I say I wasn't interested in seeing the film until I saw Bruce Campbell was in it. The artwork for the film, foreign poster excluded, is boring as fuck. I'm glad I gave the film a chance because it was really fucking awesome and surprisingly gory. The acting in this one is solid. The film stars two horror legends and they both deliver great performances. Campbell takes on a more serious role than his portrayal of Williams and he kills it. Angus Scrimm is fantastic as well but his performance is very short lived. His screen time is not as long as many of his fans would have liked but he kills it as well. I really like Marta Martin's character. She was extremely likable and commands every scene she is in. The story for this one was not what I was expecting. The original poster for the film does not do the movie justice. The sci-fi approach before the post-apocalyptic scenarios was a great contrast that worked. The two work together to give the viewer something different instead of keeping them in one style of film the entire duration. Finally, this film is surprisingly gory. The kills we get use great practical effects and the gore is fucking amazing. Fans of blood and gore will be satisfied with this one. Overall, Mindwarp is an extremely underrated early 90s horror/sci-fi mashup that just begs to be seen. Check it out on blu from Mill Creek that looks great which is something you can't usually say about a Mill Creek blu release. 
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