Duuuude. The IMDB and the WIkipedia do disagree, but one of them says 1992 which was my exact guess.
Okay dude, did you know there are 5 Scanners movies? Something about establishing a world with rules and with a interesting dynamic to the system must be the trick about building series. Scanners was a fairly normal idea for a sci fi thriller: guys have certain cool mental powers to manipulate and control others, all up to making their heads explode. Nice.
So in this one, there's a experiment going on with the Scanners where they're administering an experimental drug to Helena, which is slowly turning her evil. Her brother Alex eventually begins to notice a change at the same time that bodies are piling up. Helena, it seems, has very powerful mental powers including being able to control people over TV screens and controlling them deeply enough for those people to kill others or even themselves.
Theres some really good bloody sequences, decent kills and some wacky bullshit going on. Online this gets shouted out for being the worst of the first three, and if it's because this movie is silly and a B movie and it knows it, then I say I don't mind that. Maybe Scanners coming from a place of social commentary and excellent direction by David Cronenberg wasn't the top movie to make a straight genre sequel to, but worse has definitely happened.
This is a fast moving, B grade sequel that is still plenty of fun and would make one want to watch the others in the genre, which I hopefully will. I give it 3 stars.
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