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.
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beginning to regret my "watch every movie even vaguely connected to the notion of cyberspace" project
it's a cross between knightmare and a windows 98 screensaver. I mean that in the best possible way.
I want to triple bill this with hackers and brainscan (findlay if ur reading this it's gonna happen)
Has anyone ever noticed that this is definitely a Freddy Movie and that the kids are definitely Dream Warriors and Arcade is definitely a dream world and the Chrome Dragon is MOST DEFINITELY FREDDY KRUEGER?? There's even some heavy psyche issues that the kids have to face, helplessness, addiction and suicide. The finale with girl from Encino Man's dead Mom is just about the most upsetting shit I've ever seen and Albert Pyun is just like "lol jk it's only VR", and I'm like ... traumatized for life.
This movie never quite hit me the way it did this time. Somewhere between Seth Green's mushroom haircut and Rayanne from My So Called Life's Doc Martens, there's a sorcerous virtual overlord making moods out of plastic and pixels. Making screaming skeleton bats escape from the neon grid and the glitch goes wild.
With games like Arcade that are interactive, supercomputers, and microprocessors, man. They're the wave of the future.
There is a new cutting-edge game on the market called... well, ARCADE! It promises an arcade experience like no other. This 1990s virtual reality game features characters such as Ralphie from "A Christmas Story," Donna's dad from "That '70s Show," and a young Seth Green, who plays an annoying fuck as per usual. While the game draws comparisons to "Tron," its dated 90s graphics remind me more of the late 1980s TV show "Knightmare." Instead of the "Helmet of Justice," the characters wear cycling helmets and black jumpsuits. Despite its shortcomings, it doesn't overstay its welcome, which is one of the few positive…
like something made by a mad genius who grew up watching only afterschool specials. or tron reimagined by a fourth grader. a strictly filler mid-season buffy episode. black mirror meets gee whiz. i don’t know, man… it’s pretty weird.
I'm the kind of guy who still keeps up with vaporwave music releases in 2024 because for fleeting moments they almost fool me into believing I'm still living in the era of crackling dial-up internet, tube televisions, and CD-ROMs. In the same way that optimists of the 1950's imagined a sparkling chrome tomorrow of moving sidewalks and rocket travel, many in the 90's envisioned the world to come as a Virtual Utopia, a digital Forever Mall of soft pastels and easy consumerism. That sense of 90's optimism more or less evaporated on the morning of September 11th, but contemporary electronic music keeps its spirit alive: just about every week on streaming platforms you can find a new release that harkens…
Pyun brings us a breezy 85 minute movie (as with most Full Moon Productions, about 10 of those minutes are opening credits) in which the kid from A CHRISTMAS STORY warps into a video game with the love interest from ENCINO MAN. the name of the video game is literally Arcade, and i guess you're supposed to skateboard through a tunnel with some spikes and there's an evil spirit thing. this is one of the most 90's things ever produced, and the visuals swing wildly between typical Pyun beauty and hilariously awful -yet-charming, and if you watched this on VHS a billion times as a kid you'll surely get a nostalgic buzz. what i'm saying is, there's not really way…
Dante's Inferno is the local arcade and it's running a test demo for a new virtual reality video game called Arcade. All of the kids who happen to show up that day are given a console of their own to take home and test. It's then that they begin to disappear one by one. You see, losing at Arcade isn't just a frustrating defeat. It's fatal.
Upon popping in this film you are treated to the Full Moon Entertainment splash screen. Its one of those screens that tell me that I am in for something low budget that's going to be either really good or really bad. Unfortunately it's the latter.
The cheap ass font and equally cheap early CGI…
It makes me so nostalgic to see a movie from a time when actors standing in front of entirely digital backgrounds meant they were trapped in a computer game! These days I'm beginning to wonder if actors ever leave their green-screen studios. Deep in "Dante's Inferno" - great name for an arcade, my local was called "Aladdin's Castle" - there's a new game that sucks you in and takes over your whole life. And there's even a home version that you can never, ever shut off. No, it's not the Internet! It's some kind of really lame dungeon crawler with just one single monster. I'd rather be playing Wizardry. Star Trek: The Next Generation's very own "Q" introduces the game…
love that chuck band had this dumb idea and pyun had to go all dangerously close with it - kids totally abandoned by their parents, sitting on sidewalks unsupervised with only each other to rely on, sucked into video games that serve as their only babysitters, forced to rescue themselves from hell. look past the dorky nonsense plot and vaporwave graphics (even though i love those things) and there's something dark and heartbreaking here, emphasized by the gloomy nighttime atmosphere and foggy cave of an arcade. loved this the first time around but appreciated it so much more after becoming more familiar with his body of work, this fits in perfectly with his best stuff, his respect and compassion for women and kids and the weirdos of the world is as always one of his best qualities and puts him on a totally different level than his peers.
"Virtual reality is the way of the future!" Cheah ok...Not! Well it's definitely the way of 1994...This was a mess but can't blame it for trying so dang hard. A low budget teen adventure/horror film starring a whole lotta nerd hairs. Undercuts, flowy dumb hair and proofed out ponytails. Throw in some state of the art 90s video game FX and a 90s state of the art Seth Green and blam! 90 minutes of your life lost forever!
If only this had been made in 1986 instead...probably would have been more like that Emilio Estevez segment in Nightmares where he battles the killer arcade...That's some good shit right there. Not here. I need a beer...
Albert Pyun, a man influenced by many, never got proper credit for things he has potentially inspired. A combination of mind-melting imagery and such dry acting it could make you weep, Arcade is Evidence Article A for submissions on "who is Neil Breen's daddy?"
