Movies Like Scanners III: The Takeover (1992)

Scanners III: The Takeover is a 1992 action, horror, science fiction film from Christian Duguay with a MovieMagicScore of 4.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Scanners and Scanners II: The New Order.

Action Horror Science Fiction

Scanners

1981

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

6.7

MagicScore

Scanners II: The New Order

1991

A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.

5.2

MagicScore

Ghost Machine

2009

Two technicians battle a vengeful spirit that has infected their stolen military software.

4.8

MagicScore

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

1996

After being rescued from the ruins of Virtual Space Industries, Jobe is rebuilt and reconnected to virtual reality by corporate mogul Jonathan Walker. Years later, teenage hacker Peter Parkette helps Jobe locate Benjamin Trace, the original creator of virtual reality, only to uncover Jobe’s plan to launch a new world order using Walker’s tech. Now, Peter, Trace, Cori, and a band of runaways must stop Jobe and Walker before they enslave humanity through cyberspace.

3.3

MagicScore

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

7.1

MagicScore

The Matrix Revolutions

2003

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

6.7

MagicScore

Oxygen

2021

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

6.6

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THX 1138

1971

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

6.4

MagicScore

D.A.R.Y.L.

1985

Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

The Matrix Resurrections

2021

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Demon Seed

1977

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.

5.8

MagicScore

#12

One Point O

2004

Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.

5.6

MagicScore

#13

Evilspeak

1981

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

5.3

MagicScore

#14

Choose or Die

2022

In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.

5.2

MagicScore

#15

Helix

2015

When a low-level cop, Aiden Magnusson, solves an infamous crime, he is promoted to Sector One and used as a "poster boy" of success. But his newly established status and lavish life is jeopardised when the central computer system that governs his city accuses him of murder....Now Aiden must return to the ruins he once called home to solve the mystery and prove his innocence.

5.1

MagicScore

#16

Cyber Wars

2004

In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose.

4.9

MagicScore

#17

Ghost in the Machine

1993

After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

4.7

MagicScore

#18

Nightmare Weekend

1986

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

3.4

MagicScore

#19

Her

2013

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

7.8

MagicScore

#20

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

2015

The fourth instalment in the surreal Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared videos in which the three returning characters enter a sinister digital world through their computer.

7.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Scanners III: The Takeover?

The top films similar to Scanners III: The Takeover by MovieMagicScore are Scanners (6.7), Scanners II: The New Order (5.2), Ghost Machine (4.8). Each shares action/horror/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Scanners III: The Takeover worth watching?

Scanners III: The Takeover holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.4/10 from 116 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Scanners III: The Takeover?

Scanners III: The Takeover (1992) is a action, horror, science fiction film directed by Christian Duguay, starring Steve Parrish, Liliana Komorowska, Valérie Valois.

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This ranked list pairs Scanners III: The Takeover (1992), a action and horror and science fiction film from Christian Duguay, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Steve Parrish take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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