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Synopsis: 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. 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". It would seem that "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 in order to make the game's villain more realistic. Instead, it made the game deadly. The
Genre: Adult
Year:
1994
58 min
553 Views


Greg pulls the Polaroid out and peels off the backing. Before the picture

even develops, he begins rubbing his fingers over it, manipulating the

emulsion.

NICK:

(engrossed in his game

again)

You making another one, Greg?

GREG:

Sure. Practice.

BENZ:

Lemme see...

Greg pulls some papers from his backpack and slides them over to Benz.

The papers are color xeroxes of Polaroid blow-ups. Greg has messed with

them, creating swirling, psychedelic patterns with the images. Stilts and

Laurie lean in.

STILTS:

Cool.

GREG:

(still working)

See, when the emulsion's still warm you can

move it around...

(stops)

There.

Greg holds up the Polaroid for Alex to see.

POLAROID:

Greg and Alex are side by side, grinning...all around them the world has

spun into strange colors. It's an odd effect.

Greg drops the photo in his shirt pocket and pats it.

GREG:

Safe keeping.

Meanwhile, Nick's pocket video game emits an EXPLOSION NOISE.

NICK:

Sh*t. I'm out.

He sets the game down, dejected.

BENZ:

You guys going to Dante's after school?

GREG:

I don't know.

BENZ:

Check it out...

Benz pulls a flyer from inside his coat. It's an ad for a new game called

"ARCADE", featuring a pair of evil eyes and glowing hands coming out of a

circuit board. The tag at the bottom reads, "COMING THIS FALL. REALITY

WILL NEVER BE THE SAME".

NICK:

(excited)

That's the new Slip-Stream game. Those guys

are good. It's supposed to be interactive.

Graphics are unbelievable.

BENZ:

Yeah? They were handing these out at

Dante's. Test marketing it or something.

Gonna have a demonstration today.

STILTS:

Cool.

LAURIE:

Can you say anything but "cool"?

STILTS:

Of course I can. I can say all sorts of

things...

GREG:

(annoyed)

Guys...

Benz pulls back the flyer and looks at it again.

BENZ:

So how 'bout it?

NICK:

I'm game...

(to Greg)

Greg?

Greg turns to Alex.

GREG:

Come on. We'll hit Dante's after school,

try the game out, maybe get some dinner.

ALEX:

And then keep on driving?

GREG:

Sure. Never come back. Disappear forever.

LAURIE:

(nodding)

I could go for that.

Alex laughs. Laurie took the words right out of her mouth.

CUT TO:

EXT. DANTE'S INFERNO -- DAY

The Inferno is a run-down video arcade near the beach, notable because the

games it sports are generally defective and out of date. Nevertheless,

it's become our group's hang-out. It has its charms.

A huge mural, chipped and faded with age, adorns the front of the

arcade...something straight out of Hieronymus Bosch. Demons in day-glo.

The yawning mouth of an enormous devil surrounds the entrance.

ALEX AND THE OTHERS

pull up across the street, caravan style. Greg and Alex are in one

car...an ancient Buick Skylark. No Honda Accords or VW Rabbits for this

group.

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Charles Band

The son of filmmaker Albert Band, Charles Band followed in his father's shoes. After several years as an independent filmmaker, he started Empire Pictures in the mid-'80s. That company collapsed due to the falling Italian currency--the company's studio was headquartered in Italy--Band established Full Moon Pictures. Full Moon has grown into an empire with several subsidiary companies, including Pulsepounders, Surrender Cinema, Pulp Fantasy, Action Xtreme, Alchemy, Filmonsters, Moonbeam, Torchlight, Monster Island and Cult Video. more…

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