Michael is a typical suburban teenager. Isolated from his distant father and dead mother, he finds refuge in horror fanzines and gory slasher flicks. When he plugs into Brainscan, an interactive game where the player initiates all-too-real murders, he's confident he can beat the wisecracking game master until he finds a severed foot in the fridge and belatedly realizes there may be more to Brainscan than he realizes!