Scanners (1981)
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: David Cronenberg
Written By: David Cronenberg
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman, Louis Del Grande, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Fred Doederlein, Murray Cruchley
Genres: Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller, Horror
Franchise: Scanners
Country: Canada
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1. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) (public: moderated by epiphany - 19 stars)
2. 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die (public: moderated by von krogh - 15 stars)
3. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
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11. Howard Shore (composer) (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
12. Canadian director (public: moderated by iconogassed - 2 stars)
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| Jun 21 | CAPPLIES | 2 19% |
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| Jun 18 |  |
twincinema | 70 54% |
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"We're gonna do this the Scanner way. I'm going to suck you [...] dry" damn, didn't realize how freaky this film would get. So, I realize that I am going to have to show my future child the head-exploding scene at some point. It's going to be tricky to figure out when the right time will be. I don't want it to be too young, but if I wait, their schoolyard chums could have passed them by with their viewings. Even a slower-paced Cronenberg is my bag, baby.
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BillyShears | 80 77% |
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What Stephen Lack lacks in acting chops he makes up for in spooky Scanner style staring. The sound design in this movie is menacing, whenever someone is about to scan it gets thumping. Next to JFK probably my favourite movie centred around a head exploding.
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A weird film with weird people doing weird things to each other, culminating in a gurn-filled weird-off. Gotta love some Michael Ironside. An odd, but rather fine and occasionally smart sci-fi, with some nice Cronenberg flourishes.
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Classic Cronenberg movies are kind of a one trick pony with cool gore, and while I'm a fan of that trick, "Scanners" is unique in that it has a far more interesting story than most of his other work, but it's still not an awesome movie, largely because of the lead, he's like the worst soap opera actor ever, but in a horror movie.
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Overwhelmingly tacky and goofy and yet somehow for all its tropes doesn't feel derivative.
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Brilliantly squirmy and queasy shot of Cronenberg body-horror feels like the deformed and ugly cousin of THE FURY; it's Cronenberg's decision to base the potentially absurd premise in an otherwise recognisably "real" world that makes this so creepy. Ironside and McGoohan take acting honours, and while there is something Lacking in the two leads, their slightly space-y, wooden affects do suit the alienated natures of their characters. Great fun and a harbinger of the masterpieces to come.
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Nathan S | 4 75% |
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Companion piece to De Palma's The Fury. The corporate espionage and gruesome effects are fun. Stephen Lack is plain awful in the lead role, but otherwise this movie is rad. A bit of trashy pulp which might have been further elevated if its ideas about the evolutionary ubermensch bore out more than rough sketches lost in the systemic details of plot and sometimes plodding pace. I still appreciate the hints of transhumanism, and it even points the way to the man-machine interfaces of cyberpunk.
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Strangely wooden performances for such an off the wall premise, especially from the lead. The movie likes to over-explain itself, which felt unnecessary. Not terrible, but a largely squandered original concept.
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Scanners is most famous for a scene that happens within the first 15 minutes of the movie. That scene grabs the audience by the balls and keeps them glued to their seats for the rest of the movie. Scanners is a really cool concept for a movie. Almost forty years later it is a bit cliched but I'm sure at the time it was revolutionary. Scanners would also make a great TV series. Cronenberg fit a lot into this movie. It is easy to tell that this is a movie that he crafted like a masterpiece.
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It's evident that this isn't quite full-fledged Cronenberg yet, the story is a little underwritten and the atmosphere leans a bit more toward the campy b-movie end of things. Still very endearingly dated (my main man makes a warehouse-sized computer blow up with his mind) and the final showdown had a couple bits of imagery that made me legitimately terrified of what could be coming next.
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