Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.
Science Fiction, Crime
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Consciousness transfer.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Ancestor-body travel and the threat to future leaders' ancestry sustain Jack's mission.
Jack Deth's mind is sent into the body of his twentieth-century ancestor.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
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Cast: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Biff Manard, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur
22 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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4K UHD
Trancers 4K (1984)
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Release date
Oct 18, 2022
Studio
Full Moon Features
Resolution
Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region A, B
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Two-disc set (1 BD-66, 1 BD-50)