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By Andy McKeague Jul 17, 2005, 14:25 GMT

DVD Review: Scanners Trilogy Boxed Set

Anchor Bay has packaged all three of the ‘Scanners’ movies together in a handsome slipcase and at just under £20 this is a bargain indeed. Sadly it is in this type of scenario that you can see just how far the sequels fell from the tree. 1981’s ‘Scanners’ was a marvellous sci-fi horror tale making a social comment along the way against the madcap mayhem for parts 2 and 3 where this is thrown away like dust in the wind. 2 and 3 are more action orientated exploitation flicks and are popcorn fodder at best. Actually with hindsight looking back at ‘Scanners’, before the time of the worldwide web and before the term hacker was created, it seems that this was also somewhat prophetic. For more indepth look at each of the titles and their extras please refer to their individual reviews. Here, as a boxed set, you can look upon those sequels as some kind of unwelcome offspring or like an expanded extra of how not to make a sequel. There's a great 8 page booklet with this set, giving a few snippets of information and a mindblowing centerpiece. In short this is a bargain price for this set, and it will look great on any DVD shelf. And right now they are touting a remake being made !

'Scanners Trilogy Boxed Set' is available via AmazonUK and as of yet has no US release date, each title is also available seperately. You can read more about the DVDs in our database.

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