Arcade Page #4

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


At the moment, there's quite a bit of activity at the Inferno's entrance.

KIDS are clustered around and Slip-Stream employees are passing out Arcade

promo sheets.

THE GROUP:

heads for the entrance, plowing their way through the crowd. Stilts and

Benz have their skateboards, jumping up onto the curb with them, then

popping them up into their arms.

INT. DANTE'S INFERNO -- DAY

Inside, the Inferno is a mishmash of video games, ancient carnival props

and old horror movie posters. Dusty, creepy under the right circumstances

and filled with leering faces... in short, any kid's bedroom taken to a

horrific extreme. At Dante's Inferno, they've got the latest games side

by side with chestnuts like Pac-Man.

THE GROUP:

makes their way inside, joining a cluster of KIDS in the center of The

Inferno. And there it is...

ARCADE:

It looks out of place in the midst of The Inferno. Shiny black,

high-tech, and almost self-contained, like some sort of space-age vertical

coffin. Laser-etched graphics on the sides bear the ARCADE logo and the

same strange, frightening face.

Alex and her friends are suitably impressed, most notably, Nick and Benz.

BENZ:

Check it out...

STILTS:

Definitely cool.

Nick is silent, letting his eyes explore the machine. He turns to Greg

and grins.

NICK:

Super computers, micro-processors... That's

the future we're looking at.

Another kid, DELOACH, pushes his way to the front of the group. His

fighting a losing battle against acne.

DELOACH:

(looking around)

So how come they're previewing it in this

sh*t-hole?

STILTS:

If you weren't such a dick, you'd know what

a cool place this was.

DELOACH:

Gimme a break, they got f***ing Space

Invaders here. That's sh*t's for retards.

STILTS:

So...are you trying to say I'm retarded?

Is that what you're implying?

DELOACH:

No, but since I'm standing here, I'm

noticing that you're an ugly little f***

and you're making me sick...

That's it for Stilts. He launches himself at DeLoach, catching him off

guard and KNOCKING him to the floor.

Nick, Alex, and Greg are on them in a minute, trying to extract the two

from each other.

A LARGE MAN:

pushes his way towards them and effortlessly scoops both boys up, wrapping

a beefy hand around the scruffs of their necks. This is FINSTER, the

proprietor...enormous, bald, and always irritable.

FINSTER:

(shaking them)

Cut it out!!!

His face contorts and he spits as he speaks. Nice guy. Alex steps

forward, always the voice of reason.

ALEX:

It's okay, Mr. Finster...

FINSTER:

No it's not.

(to the boys)

You guys are shits and I'm throwing you out.

DELOACH:

(acting tough)

Your place sucks. Who gives a sh*t about

"ARCADE" anyway?

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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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