DVD Review: Scanners Trilogy Boxed Set

DVD Reviews

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

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.

Christian Duguay Picture Galleries

David Cronenberg Picture Galleries

View blog reactions

Latest Headlines in DVD

Talkback

There are currently no comments for this article. Be the first to comment! (no registration required)

Latest from M&C Blogs

Second presidential debate; no 'gamechanger' ? - Global Eye on October 8, 2008 5:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

Debate: did McCain do enough? - Global Eye on September 29, 2008 6:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (24) | TrackBacks (1)

Should Sen. John McCain's health records be made public? - Global Eye on September 15, 2008 8:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (52) | TrackBacks (0)

Raindance Film Festival - Estomago - London Calling on October 8, 2008 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Raindance Film Festival : It's Hard To Be Nice - London Calling on October 8, 2008 9:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

London Film Festival - Dean Spanley - London Calling on October 6, 2008 9:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport - The World in Pictures on October 2, 2008 4:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Devotee to Chinese Shrine of Sapam has face pierced - The World in Pictures on October 2, 2008 4:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Indian Muslims offer prayers on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr - The World in Pictures on October 2, 2008 4:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

DVD

DVD Review: Scanners Trilogy Boxed Set

DVD Reviews

Christian Duguay Picture Galleries

David Cronenberg Picture Galleries

Latest Headlines in DVD

Talkback

Latest from M&C Blogs

Scanners Trilogy Boxed Set

Related Articles

Similar articles

More about Christian Duguay

More about David Cronenberg

In Monsters and Critics

Corporate

The Fine Print