Scanners (1981)
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. (imdb)
Genres: Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller, Horror
Franchise: Scanners
Country: Canada
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
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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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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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This movie has got a lot of charm and atmosphere, something I noticed that David Cronenberg is really great at bring out in nearly all the work I've seen of his so far. Grotesque and over the top at times, as much as the acting could potentially annoy some I find that it fits the tone of this movie and what it's going for. The music in this is also really fantastic, all of these put together make for a very fun and tense experience that captures a Midnight Movie feel exceptionally well.
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prologue is satisfying, dark ambience is just beautiful. but the motivation of the philosophical basis is progressively decreasing through the film. epilog is a little bit confusing, still mindfuck positive way. it seems to me 'scanners' is kind of early trying of the 'existenz'.
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