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Trancers (1985)

 -  Action | Sci-Fi  -  22 May 1985 (USA)
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Jack Deth / Phil Deth
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Michael Stefani ...
Martin Whistler / Police Dective Weisling
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McNulty (as Art La Fleur)
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Engineer Raines
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Chairman Spencer
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Chairman Ashe
Miguel Fernandes ...
Officer Lopez (as Miguel Fernandez)
Biff Manard ...
Peter Schrum ...
Santa Claus (as Pete Schrum)
Barbara Perry ...
Brad Logan ...
Bull
Minnie Summers Lindsey ...
'Mom' (as Minnie Lindsay)
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Drunken Wise Man
Wiley Harker ...
Dapper Old Man
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Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in the bleak Los Angeles of the future. He's become obssessed with chasing Whistler - an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to convert people into zombie like creatures known as trancers. Whistler has managed to escape through time travel and is loose in 1980s L.A. but Deth is on his trail. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

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Meet Jack Deth. He's a Cop From The Future Trapped in the Present, and he's chasing a 23rd century menace in 1985 See more »

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22 May 1985 (USA)  »

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$400,000 (estimated)
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Jack Deth's car is a 1955 Mercury Montclair which was heavily modified by Gene Winfield, who built the spinners and full sized cars for Blade Runner. See more »

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During the fight with black woman in the diner at the beginning of the movie, for several shots from her back you can see it is a white stuntman doing the fighting. See more »

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Jack Deth: Last January, I finally singed Martin Whistler out on one of the rim planets. Since then, I've been hunting down the last of his murdering cult. We call them "Trancers:" slaves to Whistler's psychic power. Not really alive, not dead enough. It's July now, and I'm tired. Real tired.
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Prancer Trancer
2 October 2008 | by (Oxford, England) – See all my reviews

Trancers is a breathtaking film. Made on a minute budget, the sets clearly suffer from costings yet despite this the film is consistently humorous and riveting. Tim Thomerson blasts his way through many bad Trancers dude in his sarcastic and wry style - the scene where he tells a well toned body-builder (Michael McGrady) that his tan suits Christmas well is brilliant as are many of the daft remarks. Featuring a pre-fame Helen Hunt as Leena and a great range of supporting actors we also have to be grateful to the writers, Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo (later to concentrate on computer games understandably) who tone the film in ways that Charles Band (as director) could never have done alone.


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