Scanners 1-2-3 ( Scanners / Scanners II: The New Order / Scanners III: The Takeover ) [ Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import – Sweden ]
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Sweden released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player. You need Blu-Ray DVD player to view this Blu-Ray DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby TrueHD ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Music Video, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Scanners: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn’t, and converts him to their cause – to destroy the underground movement. Scanners II: The New Order: Good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. One scanner escapes from a mental center and is hired by the politician to use his powers to gain control of others minds, and then, their actions. Scanners III: The Takeover: A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her father. Her brother, who is also a scanner, is the only one powerful enough to stop her. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Fantasporto Awards, …Scanners 1-2-3 ( Scanners / Scanners II: The New Order / Scanners III: The Takeover )
MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
Package Dimensions : 6.69 x 5.28 x 0.39 inches; 2.12 ounces
Director : Christian Duguay, David Cronenberg
Media Format : Import, Widescreen, Blu-ray
Run time : 307 minutes
Actors : Michael Ironside, Paul Stewart, Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
Subtitles: : Swedish
Producers : Scanners 1-2-3 ( Scanners / Scanners II: The New Order / Scanners III: The Takeover ), Scanners 1-2-3, Scanners / Scanners II: The New Order / Scanners III: The Takeover
Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
ASIN : B077Y1PB5W
Country of Origin : Sweden
Number of discs : 1
Amazon Customer –
Great movie to watch
Best movie ever, I’ve never heard or seen it but I said hey the cover looks good and you know what i was right this time lmao
Jasper –
Scanners
I loved this movie when I was a kid so I recently ordered it so I could see it again since they never play it on cable t.v. It’s still pretty good even nowadays. I have seen all of them, there were quite a few, but the first 3 were really pretty entertaining. Lots of gore if you like that. 🙂
Sci-fi Geek –
One of the greatist Horror movies of the 80’s.
This 1981 Canadian made Sci-fi Horror thriller is about people with telepathic and telekinetic Powers called ” Scanners”, they also use their powers to make people explode. The Story deals with a Young Scanner named ” Cameron Vale” ( Stephen Lack) who joins with a Scientist ( Patrick Mcgoohan of Braveheart) and a Woman Scanner to stop a Mad Scanner named ” Daryl Revok” ( Michael Ironside of V and Starship Troopers) before he sells a deadly drug that will make a army of evil Scanners.Intelligent, Exciting, fascinating and Great all the way!!! this film became one of the highest grossers of 1981 in Canada and USA, proved that not all Horror can be European or Hollywood. I saw it three years ago on Video and loved it, then i bought this movie for my collection. it’s also known the infamous Gore such as the Exploding head scene, it’s a must see Horror/ Sci-fi film for thinkers or film-goers cause i guarantee it will blow your mind!!! ( Literally, ha ha ha ha).Recommendations: Akira, Firestarter, Carrie, Making Contact, Total Recall, The Matrix, The Stuff, Day of the Dead, The Evil Dead, Robocop, and The Terminator.
Tomboy girly girl –
I Hate It
Because “I” wasn’t careful & busy I didn’t look at the regions & these only play overseas. They REALLY should have something that alerts you to the region though. Maybe, b4 the transactions complete, open a screen w/ that information for people. I can’t dog on the service. I suppose by it coming all that way, it wasn’t late. I hate it b/c I really wanted to watch those movies. I guess the store is okay :/
Star Sailor –
THIS MOVIE SCREAMS FOR A DVD RELEASE!!
Can I get a witness!! This movie was the first David Cronenburg film I ever saw. When I saw this the first time, I was 11 and it completely enthralled me! Before this movie, I had never seen a movie with so much Twilight Zonish quality with a story that could upsell low budget movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th. I see much of Cronenburgs work has been successfully transferred to DVD, except this gem? What’s up with that! I just viewed the VHS version and unfortunately, there is no widescreen version of this film. I would love to get a better sound quality version of this too. Hopefully, studios will get the hint and release a deluxe special edition of this movie on DVD with lots of extras! As far as the VHS version, it’s so so. For the sake of viewing a really great piece of sci-fi, this movie is one not to pass up!
Jeffrey Ellis –
Oh yeah, the movie with the exploding head…
The exploding head movie. Even if the film didn’t have other qualities to recommend it, Scanners will always be remembered for the scene where Michael Ironside uses his psychic powers to make another man’s head explode in fully, gory, on-screen detail. Its a shocking moment and hasn’t lost any of its power in the twenty-or-so years since the film’s original premiere. But beyond that shock, the film has much more to recommend it.The plotline of Scanners is a familiar one that, following Scanners success, has since become even more imitated. Essentially, there are two types of people in the world — boring people with no psychic abilities and then Scanners, who have psychic abilities and can make people’s heads explode (actually they can do quite a lot of things but that exploding head — seen early in the film — tends to stick with you). Our Scanners seem to be divided into two opposing forces. One is led by the enigmatic Prof. Ruth, who is well-played by Patrick McGoohan as a friendly type who, nevertheless, still comes across like he might be the devil in disguise. The other group is led by the previously mentioned Michael Ironside. Since Scanners, Ironside has been one of the busiest character actors in B-films. At times, he seems to play the villian’s sadistic sidekick so many times that just the sight of his glowering face qualifies as camp. However, in Scanners, he gives a truly amazing and chilling performance. Sporting a prominent scar on his forehead (described as a “third eye” but actually the result of a suicide attempt with a power drill), Ironside is technically the film’s villian but director David Cronenberg makes it clear that Ironside feels, somewhat justifiably, that he has been more sinned against and his actions, if extreme, make sense in the context of survival.The film’s episodic plot centers around McGoohan and Ironside’s attempts to recruit Scanner Stephen Lack to their respective causes. An artist of some renown, Lack was not a professional actor and many viewers have had some problems with his performance. Lack does not project a terribly winning presence on screen and at times, some of his dialouge is delivered in a rather flat, child-like monotone. However, I don’t think Cronenberg meant for Lack to be extremely likeable. When we first see him, Lack is an unwashed vagrant and easily mistaken for schizophrenic. Cursed with powers he doesn’t understand (and can’t control), Lack is as alienated from the rest of the world as Ironside. Instead of a major miscasting blunder, it becomes obvious, on repeat viewings, that Cronenberg very cannily (and subversively) made a deliberate effort to make his villian the most likeable and charismatic character in the film.Scanners, at first glance, doesn’t seem to have a lot in common with other Cronenberg films. There’s little evidence of Cronenberg’s usual sexual metaphors and the film has an almost mainstream feel in many of the action sequences. Still, there are some familiar elements. Cronenberg directs in his usual chilly but wryly humorous style and Lack’s attempt to “scan” a computer touches on themes that the director explored more directly (and surrealistically) in films like Videodrome and eXistenZ. Lack and Ironside’s own complex relationship carries shades of the director’s later film Dead Ringers. Personally, my favorite image from the film comes early one when Lack visits another Scanner played by Robert Silverman, a Cronenberg mainstay. Silverman is a sculptor and, in almost a throwaway bit, we get to see the home Silverman has built for himself — a gigantic replica of his own head. To me, this sums up one of the main themes running through Cronenberg’s varied cinematic output; the horror and the beauty of actually entering your own mind and discovering what’s lurking around in there. If Scanners, at times, seems like toned down Cronenberg, it is still unmistakably a product of his fertile imagination.
Piers –
C’Mon MGM How’s About A DVD Version….,
Like the last guy who wrote on here, I really think that this film would be great on DVD, particularly as my video copy is currently having death throes and I want to see it in widescreen. So MGM get yourselves in gear!!Anywho, to repeat the plot (in short terms), prototype medicine leads to the creation of telepathics (it pretty much says this on the box so I am not spoiling) and there are good and bad ones. Of course the good will have to face off with the bad with pretty explosive results.This film is my favourite Cronenberg work, as it combines his weird ideas with more plot than usual. I liked Videodrome a lot as well, but this one holds together a little bit more. The visuals are nice (abstract canadian architecture) and the ideas are awesome (shady drug companies, links between madness and art etc), actually the central idea of the “Bad Medicine” probably has some basis in the Thalidomide cases of defect births. Hmmmm. Anyways people have discussed the merits of exploding heads et al enough here. I really just want a DVD realease of this film and it seems odd that MGM haven’t when they have put out so many others.
Mr. K. B. Ashe –
Swift delivery and very satisfactory service. Plus itâs an excellent film and Iâm looking forward to enjoying a crisp new bluray copy⦠thanks!
Fran Hall –
my mum told me about these movies and after a brief summery i HAD to buy them.loved the first one and ended up watching all three in the same night.
dspdspes –
Der Film ist nur auf englisch und es gibt nur Untertitel auf schwedisch oder so, und nirgends steht davon etwas…selbst die Zusammenfassung ist auf schwedisch, da muss doch drauf hingewiesen werden!!! Langsam reicht es, das ist nicht das erste mal….
Bennny boy –
What a great trilogy!!
Darkalo –
David Cronenberg’s Scanners is without doubt the best film in the series, but if you liked the concept of the first entry of the saga you will probably find a way to enjoy Scanners II and III. They are definitely not that bad. So, if we also take into account the special features (though I do miss some deleted scenes, a making of, etc.), the good quality of the picture of all three movies and the packaging, we definitely have quite a nice DVD collection.SCANNERS (1981)1 disc. Feature running time: 99 min. Audio: Stereo 2.0, Optional 5.1., DTS. Feature aspect ratio: Widescreen presentation (1:85.1) Enhanced for 16:9 TVs.Region 2. English subtitles for the Hard of Hearing (feature only)>Extras * ‘The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg’: 59:02 min. documentary * ‘Inside Scan: Scanners’: 08:28 min. featurette * Trailer 1, Trailer 2 and Trailer 3. * ‘The Brood’ trailer * Film Notes * Biographies: David Cronenberg, Jennifer O’Neil, Patrick McGoohan and Michael Ironside * Stills gallerySCANNERS II: THE NEW ORDER (1991)1 disc. Feature running time: 100 min. Audio: Stereo 2.0, Optional 5.1., DTS. Feature aspect ratio: Widescreen presentation (1:78.1) Enhanced for 16:9 TVs.Region 2. English subtitles for the Hard of Hearing (feature only)> Extras * ‘Inside Scan: The New Order’: 07:42 min. featurette * Trailer 1, Trailer 2 and Trailer 3. * Film Notes * Biographies: Christian Duguay, David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin.SCANNERS III: THE TAKEOVER (1991)1 disc. Feature running time: 95 min. Audio: Stereo 2.0, Optional 5.1., DTS. Feature aspect ratio: Widescreen presentation (1:78.1) Enhanced for 16:9 TVs.Region 2. English subtitles for the Hard of Hearing (feature only)> Extras * ‘Inside Scan: The take over’: 05:31 min. featurette * Trailer 1, Trailer 2 and Trailer 3. * Film Notes * Biographies: Christian Duguay.