Maximum Surge (2003) (TV)

Director:

Jason Bourque

Writer:

Keith Shaw (writer)

Release Date:

23 June 2003 (Canada)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Vitual Reality... Bytes

Plot:

When a super computer is linked to a video game network, a computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fantasies and defeat the computer before it causes a worldwide information crash.

Plot Keywords:

Computer | Virtual Reality | Computer Game | Super Computer | Jellybean

Cast

Yasmine Bleeth	...	Jo
Walter Koenig	...	Drexel
Dominika Wolski	...	Elaine Barker
Woody Jeffreys	...	Steve Hunter
Doug Abrahams	...	Mr. Brinkman
Craig McNair	...	NPD Officer Pinkerton
Marek Wiedman	...	Commander
Alvin Sanders	...	Professor Roswell
Erin Karpluk	...	Zoey
France Perras	...	Synthi
Manny Petruzzelli	...	Drexel (voice)
Brian Dobson	...	DJ
Andy Hirsch	...	Codec
Dick Miller	...	Boxing Cornerman
Michael Buffer	...	Boxing Announcer

Also Known As:

Game Over (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and some dialogue.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Insight Film Studios

Trivia:

Combines 65 minutes of new film footage with 35 minutes of film footage acquired from five separate full motion video computer games. In a similar manner to the original Raymond Burr Godzilla, all scenes with Yasmine Bleeth and 'Walter Koenig' we're originally shot for computer games that never made it to market in 1998. It weaves together a new story and plot connecting the various games together.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Corpse Killer (1994) (VG)

This film will bring you closer to your grave.

I joined IMDb with the intent of writing about Maximum Surge. In the event that something may have happened to me before I signed on, I would have been unable to warn people away from watching this terrible, awful film. That, I imagine, would have been extremely bad for my karma. It's taken a few years since this film was made, but now perhaps my soul will find peace.

First and foremost, Maximum Surge is just excruciating to watch. Beware of films that are so bad, they are good, this isn't one of them. Likely you will only see it on television, if you do, you must change the channel or turn it off lest you become one of those sad, lost minority who sat through the whole thing.

Much of the filming took place at a school I used to work at. The filming was brief. Although the school had a policy of showing films every weekend, Maximum Surge was never shown. This was the film shot in the one place you'd figure would guarantee that it would be shown. Nope. It was so bad, you couldn't even show it to the people who worked at the location is was shot in. The school has since been sold to a large American conglomerate.

Maximum Surge will induce maximum purge of brain cells, of slack, of life force, of anything that you value as important to your life and well-being. Stay away at all costs.