Thy Davideth 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.

sol- Opening with a Christmas party in which a scanner shows off his powers with unexpectedly tragic results, this second sequel to David Cronenberg's 'Scanners' begins on a chilling note. Things only get more interesting as one of the party guests soon has to use her scanning abilities to fend off muggers, which results in massive headaches (having avoided scanning in so long) with a possible cure in an experimental nicotine patch style of sorts. After this promising start though, the plot soon derails as the patch as the side effect of turning her into a homicidal megalomaniac, similar to Raoul Max Trujillo in 'Scanners II'. Lead actress Liliana Komorowska manages to chew the scenery even more so than Trujillo though in such a wildly exaggerated performance that it is draining to watch. There are also a host of ill-defined supporting characters who inexplicably wear sunglasses all the time (to stop accidentally scanning??) and as she manages to control others through television sets, her powers end up more fantastical than pseudo-scientific as in the first two films. 'Scanners 3' does, however, deserve some points for presenting a more original plot than Part 2. There is also quite a bit of humour in the mix (forcing an obnoxious date to dance; waking up in a morgue) and the special effects are uniformly excellent, but this is a hard film to get excited about.

leathaface In the third installment the main villain is a woman scanner, who started out a normal person until she stopped taking her medication, Ephemerol-3. Eph-3 is a drug in the form of a patch that is placed behind the ear to relieve Scanners of the migraines they get when they are out in public (it must give them a headache to hear everyone's thoughts at once.) She eventually goes megalomaniacally insane and wants to take revenge on the doctors that experimented on her as a child, and ultimately rule the world with the rest of the Scanners. First she sets out to free the scanners currently being tested at Dr. Baumner's office then proceeds to kill him resulting in one of the most graphic deaths in the Scanners history. She blows up his finger then scans him until his eyeballs boil and his brain hemorrhages (you've got to see it) then finally his head explodes (of course.) There's all sorts of gory deaths. There's a syringe through the tongue, a man who dives head first into an empty pool, a drowning, an inflating (again, has to be seen) and exploding head, and a man who gets spun around in a revolving door so forcefully his face is deformed. But then it explodes anyway. This one actually probably has the highest exploding head count. The whole time her brother, the hero is trying to track her down and help her, but she evades him and eventually he is captured by her gang of scanner thugs and is pitted against her in a one-on-one battle on live TV. I don't recall him killing her, she just sort of goes back to "normal". Kind of a dull ending, but its made up for by the abundance of action and special effects. I enjoyed this one better than the second, which I thought was better than the first.

BigTete I rented this movie by mistake about three years ago, and ever since then, I've been a huge Scanners fan. This movie, which is in my opinion the best of all the Scanners films. Stars, Liliana Kormorowska (The Assignment, Screamers) as Helena Monet a scanner bent on ruling the world because of something called eph-3 which completely transforms her from you average every day nice girl to one of the most sadistic people I've ever seen. Her brother Alex (played by Steve Parish) is the only scanner with enough power to stop her and what ensues is an awesome confrontation of scanner power the likes of which I've never seen before. This movie is a must see if you've enjoyed the other Scanner's films and if you've never seen a scanner's film why not start with this one?