THE MIND’S EYE
Certainly not a great movie by any stretch, it is at least, in many ways, it is the true spiritual sequel to Scanners, as it’s heads and tails better than either Scanners II or Scanners III.
Director/screenwriter Joe Begos inserts a few interesting elements into his story about people with super acute mental powers and his antagonist is promising. The film flounders, however, by not making the villain dastardly enough and by not taking the effects and gore to more creative levels; Begos, who is known for his over-the-top splatter effects, keeps things rather tame here. Plus he more or less sticks to the blueprint devised by Cronenberg. The one stand-out is the sound design (the film even begins with the prompt: "This Film Needs To Be Played LOUD”), which is intensely immersive.
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