A Joystick Remote Control For Your Kid's Brain

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A Joystick Remote Control For Your Kid’s Brain

It's probably not a great idea to smoke while you do brain surgery and insert mind-control electrodes into little kids' heads. But that's how you can tell the Canuxploitation film Terminal City Ricochet takes place in a future dystopia. Besides implants that let the mayor to control your kids' brains using a video-game remote control, the authoritarian society also uses television, consumerist crap... and thuggish police led by the Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra. Why is this movie not available on video?

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