Scanners III: The Takeover
Directed by:
Christian DuguayComposer:
Marty SimonCast:
Liliana Głąbczyńska, Colin Fox, Chip Chuipka, Michel Perron, Daniel Pilon, Jason Cavalier, Richard Jutras, Michael Copeman, Valérie Valois, Aimée Castle (more)VOD (1)
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Second sequel to David Cronenberg's 1981 horror, about a group of telepathic people, known as 'scanners', operating on the fringes of human society. Young Helena Monet (Liliana Komorowska) has exceptional telepathic abilities, but when she tries an experimental drug developed by her father she turns into a deranged killer, using her abilities to cut a murderous swathe to the top of her father's pharmaceutical company. On her quest to dominate the world, Helena takes over a television station, and the only man who can stop her is her scanner brother Alex, recently returned from honing his skills in a Thai monastery. (Second Sight)
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"Scanners III" is a movie that you could easily miss because it doesn't mean anything for the series anyway. It is a movie that could have been made countless times on this subject. Simply take the character of a scanner, possibly take more of them, and add some banal plot to it. The movie tries to say something, but it says the same thing as Cronenberg's film, which was able to present it truly darkly.
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