Charles Band's Eliminators series

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Beware, not really an "official" series, but you can see it in this way.


Eliminators (1986)

A super cool, classic b-movie featuring a team of "eighties" cliché heroes:

Mandroid - half man/half machine.
Harry Fontana - the adventurer.
Colonel Nora Hunter - the scientist fighter.
Kuji Takada - the ninja.
S.P.O.T. - a superpowered version of Herbie (see Fantastic Four).

The movie is wonderful. There are two blu-ray editions, the best one is the the UK release (88 Films).




Well, "Eliminators" has two apocryphal sequels, always produced by Charles Band! Both released in 1993:

Mandroid
Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight

They are strictly related in terms of continuity, filmed back-to-back in Romania, and feature a new team of Eliminators:

Wade Franklin + Mandroid
Zanna Zimmer
Benjamin Knight/Invisible





Finally, there's an unrelated rip-off, Manborg (2011), featuring a futuristic line-up:


Manborg
Justice
Mina
#1 Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manborg

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Any feedback?

"Eliminators" had two HD transfers. SHOUT! used a release print or an interpositive. It looks good. Cue marks are visible.
88 Films used the original camera negatives. Great picture quality.

[bigrob]

they are both exactly the same?

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Originally Posted by bigrob

they are both exactly the same?

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...109975&i=3&l=0

I don't know. 88 Films claims it's a brand new master from original camera negatives (OCN).

[L.J.]

Cool