Scanners III: The Takeover (1992)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Scanners 3 is about a woman who discovers her scanner powers which gives her permanent non-stop PMS and wants to kill everyone. Her pansy ass brother must stop her. Same director and same year production (I think) and yet it is vastly inferior to the 2nd installment. What the f***? It's not bad at all, it's just the 2nd Scanners was well shot and this is just, I don't know, stupid. The direction was a little incompetent, the acting was retarded and story was silly and stupid. The action was good though this installment is less gory and not as well executed. Still it serves as good entertainment for those who like their entertainment horrid.

Scanners 3 could just be the most unrelentingly ludicrous film in movie history, no exaggeration. I'm actually surprised it doesn't seem to have built up a retro cult fanbase the way movies like Troll 2, The Room or Samurai Cop have. I think it could easily reach those giddy heights of 'so-bad-it's-ridiculous' acclaim if enough of the right audience saw it. It veers like a drunk on steroids from one totally demented set piece to another, never pausing long enough to ask itself wtf is going on. The acting is gloriously OTT, especially from the female lead who comes across like the ultimate pantomime baddie, cackling sneering and roaring her way through the film with a luminous green flashing circle stuck behind her ear (don't ask).It seems pointless describing much more. If you're a fan of the bizarre, the absurd, the bad, the twisted, the preposterous, the uncanny and the warped, then enter this way and bring a crash helmet. It's years since I saw Cronenburg's original and I can't even remember if I saw the first sequel, but Scanners 3 must surely stand alone as probably the most bonkers piece of cinema, of the 1990s at least, but possibly ever?

First movie is outstanding and second Scanner movie was really good, I really enjoyed both.The movie start of with a party.Then two guys, one of them is a scanner.Alex Monet is showing off, and a friend dies in a tragic accident, so he goes to Tibetan to get away.Meanwhile his siste,r Helena and her friend are walking in ally come underattack and Helena ability come into action.As Helena get home, then her father tells that he got a new drug Eph-3, which she does use even, when her father tells her not too, the drugs take over her and she start acting for evil and want Scanners to take over the world.There is only one person that can stop her, that is her brother Alex, who has to get away from other Scanner, that are trying to kill him.This movie was really poor, I did not enjoy it, this movie not that gory at all or even nasty, they even taken a death scene from first movie and made it look so cheap, other deaths silly and really badly done.There even tired to add some humour in this, which did not work at all, the jokes were not funny at all.The acting wasn't to bad for a 3rd movie in the series. I am going to give this movie 4 out of 10

I recently picked up the scanners box set which contains one, two and three. Afetr having seen the first two movies and enjoying them hugely I decided to watch the third in the series. I found this movie to be a huge let down with absolutely no redeeming features what so ever, i think that this movie is an insult to the series, so much so that could not actually watch it all the way through, I really would rather that this abomination was forgotten. The film could possibly have been better with the help of good friend alcohol but then i don't think even this could have made any difference. It's very unusual for me to dislike a film this much and considering the job that Christian Duguay did with the second movie I can't work out what happened. Complete tripe.