Telekinetic Horror Presented in Awesome Widescreen; Unfortunately, No Extras!
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Ever since watching Brian De Palma's "Carrie" (Carrie) and "The Fury" (The Fury), I've been obsessed with telekinesis. The Scanners franchise also fulfilled my desire to watch people move objects with their thoughts. The original "Scanners" (Scanners) was directed by David Cronenberg who became famous for his controversial science fiction horror films starring controversial actors [e.g., "The Brood" (The Brood), with brawler hunk Oliver Reed, and "Rabid" (Rabid) with former porn star Marilyn Chambers]. "Scanners" focuses on an emotionally disturbed, homeless scanner, Cameron Vale (Stephen...
SCREAM FACTORY'S SCANNERS II & III
I'm a big fan of Scanners especially the original scanners film by David cronenberg which is a classic
but Scanners II is pretty Good and Scanners III is a bit ridiculous but still Good.
any fan of Scanners knows what scanners II & III are about, they're both similar to the original
Scanners II was released in 1990 but was a Direct to video release
i don't think it was shown in many cinemas, if it was shown in some Cinemas
then it would have been a short run
Scanners III was no different, it was released in Cinemas 1 year after Scanners II
again Direct to Video after a short run playing in some cinemas.
both Scanners II and III never got a U.S. DVD release ever
both Scanners films were only released on Anchor bay DVD in the U.K. back in 2003
so both scanners films have only been available in the U.K. on Anchor bay DVD.
Until now this year, scream factory who's part of shoutfactory in L.A. California
finally got...
VHS QUALITY ONLY!
These movies were fine when they came out in the early 90's. I already own these on VHS. I had this pre-ordered for a while. I started the Blu-ray disc and let me say the quality is not good, worst BD I have seen. Looks like they just took the VHS tapes copied them to Blu-ray and called them Blu-ray when there not. The introduction credits bounce up and down a little (was a tracking issue for VHS tapes). They only have 2-channel audio no 5.1 or 7.1. I hate to see what the DVD disc looks like since they have crammed 2 movies to one disc. I have seen DVD movies that have better quality than this. I know Shout Factory is a low budget studio but they could have done a way better job than this, especially when they are going to sell this as Blu-ray. I would not recommend these to anyone. To me if you have the VHS tapes don't waste your money on this set because you're going to get the same video & audio quality!
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