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Trancers is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Charles Band released in USA on 6 may 1985 with Tim Thomerson
Trancers (1984)
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Add to a movie listTrancers is a 1985 science fiction film. It was directed by Charles Band and stars Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt. It is the first film in a series of six: Trancers (1985), and the direct-to-video releases; Trancers II (1991), Trancers III (1992), Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (1994), Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (1994) and Trancers 6 (2002). A lost half hour sequel titled Trancers: City of Lost Angels, which was set between the first two films, was released via fullmoonstreaming.com in September 2013.
This film portrays a method of time travel: People can travel back in time by injecting themselves with a drug that allows them to take over the body of an ancestor. When Jack Deth arrives in 1985, he is in the body of his ancestor, a journalist; Whistler assumes control of his ancestor, a police detective; and Deth's supervisor, McNulty, borrows the form of his own forebear, a young girl.
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Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a police trooper in the year 2247 who has been hunting down Martin Whistler (Michael Stefani), a criminal mastermind who uses a psychic power to turn people into zombies and carry out his orders. Deth can identify a tranced victim by scanning them with a special bracelet. All trancers appear as normal humans at first, but once triggered, they become savage killers with twisted features.Actors
Tim Thomerson
(Trooper Jack Deth)
Helen Hunt
(Leena)
Art LaFleur
(McNulty)
Richard Herd
(Chairman Specer)
Telma Hopkins
(Ruth Raines)
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