🧠💀📼 90s Techno-Paranoia Cinema 101

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from the archives of Buzz Drainpipe and the Fogwood Video Society

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🎞️ Module Title:

"Your Mind Is Still Not Your Own"

– Analog Bodies, Digital Dreams, and CRT-Sick Futures –

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🔍 Core Film

🧠 Mindwarp (1992)

Bruce Campbell vs. the simulated wasteland of your mind.

Themes: Dreamworld control, survivalist flesh-realism, biohacking religion, decayed cyber-simulacra.

Format: VHS only. Tracked once. Dubbed twice.

> “Mindwarp is the video store’s forbidden fruit. It’s raw, it’s sad, it’s too real for the grid.”

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🛠️ Co-Feature:

💀 Death Machine (1995, dir. Stephen Norrington)

Corporate cyber-dread, psychotic A.I. weaponry, and tech-bro fascism in trench coats.

Character to note: Jack Dante – half hacker messiah, half gutter prophet.

Why it pairs: Both films imagine the future as a sewer—one spiritual, one industrial—but both visceral.

> “Death Machine is what happens when corporate R&D hires a goth Terminator to write his own HR policy.”

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🧠 Buzz’s Updated Contextual Diagram

[Mindwarp]

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     |——> [Death Machine] ———> [Tetsuo: The Iron Man]

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     |——> [Brainscan] ———> [The Lawnmower Man]

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💾 Themes to Track

Meat vs. Machine

Corporate Despair

Simulated Bliss vs. Physical Ruin

Pre-Matrix Dream Logic

Mid-90s Hacking as Religion

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🎧 Sonic Companion:

Front Line Assembly – Tactical Neural Implant

Skinny Puppy – Last Rights

Lou Toad – BORED-RIGID BEAST

Soundtrack to Your MRI Results

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📎 Suggested Assignments

Write a diary entry from inside the Mindwarp VR system.

Create a corporate memo from CHAANK Industries (Death Machine) requesting more ethical mayhem.

Mix a VHS fan-trailer for both films using degraded stock footage, local news clippings, and modem noises.

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🧾 Zine Insert Quote:

> “They told us to upload our minds. They didn’t say where it would go.”

– Buzz Drainpipe, Fogwood Tape #17