Trancers III: Death Lives, is the end of the line for Helen Hunt (she probably did a day's work), and she will be missed. 1992 is the year she gets big, and you can tell she's way too good for this shlocky series. We've also lost McNulty, and that's a shame, and they've changed the method of time travel, which I don't think is for the best either. In most ways inferior to the preceding Trancers films - Charles Band is no longer directing and there's a more definite straight-to-video feel - it has a couple things going for it. One is that Jack Deth goes back to the origin story of the trancers, and it helps make sense of the whole psycho zombie trope. The other is that they've gotten Andy Robinson to be the father of the trancers - a Dr. Muthuh (yuck yuck) - showing Full Moon still knows a creepy villain is a better villain. One could still do without the sex stuff he gets up to with his trancers, but it works in that context. Otherwise, the action's not great. But they've decided to through an android shark-man into the mix, and Jack is able to look into camera pointedly, so it's bonkers fun despite its failings.
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Trancers III: Death Lives, is the end of the line for Helen Hunt (she probably did a day's work), and she will be missed. 1992 is the year she gets big, and you can tell she's way too good for this shlocky series. We've also lost McNulty, and that's a shame, and they've changed the method of time travel, which I don't think is for the best either. In most ways inferior to the preceding Trancers films - Charles Band is no longer directing and there's a more definite straight-to-video feel - it has a couple things going for it. One is that Jack Deth goes back to the origin story of the trancers, and it helps make sense of the whole psycho zombie trope. The other is that they've gotten Andy Robinson to be the father of the trancers - a Dr. Muthuh (yuck yuck) - showing Full Moon still knows a creepy villain is a better villain. One could still do without the sex stuff he gets up to with his trancers, but it works in that context. Otherwise, the action's not great. But they've decided to through an android shark-man into the mix, and Jack is able to look into camera pointedly, so it's bonkers fun despite its failings.