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Arcade
Alex 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. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
1993 · Directed by Albert Pyun · 85 min · Fantasy · Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 4 frames
Tagline
The Game Wants to Play With You.
Plot
Alex Manning (Megan Ward) is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Alex and her friends 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, Difford, who hands out free samples of the home console version and hypes up the game.
It soon becomes clear that the teenagers who play the game and lose are imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain: Arcade. Arcade was once a little boy who was beaten to death by his mother, and the computer company felt it would be a good idea to use some of the boy's brain cells to make the game's villain more realistic. Instead, it made the game deadly. The game's programmer knew there would be a problem with this and tried to convince the computer company, Vertigo/Tronics, to halt the game's release.
Nick and Alex enlist the help of the game's programmer and head to the video arcade for a final showdown with Arcade and his deadly virtual world. While Alex is able to release her friends from a virtual prison, she also frees the evil little boy, who taunts Alex in the final moments of the film.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David S. Goyer
- Cinematography: George Mooradian
- Edited by: Miles Wynton
- Production design: Don Day
- Produced by: Cathy Gesualdo
Cast
- Megan Ward as Alex Manning
- Peter Billingsley as Nick
- John de Lancie as Difford
- Seth Green as Stilts
- Sharon Farrell as Alex's Mom
- A. J. Langer as Laurie
- Bryan Dattilo as Greg
- Brandon Rane as Benz
- B.J. Barie as DeLoache
- Humberto Ortiz as Boy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Full Moon Entertainment
- Themes: video game
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