Scanners
Scanners • 1h 43m
Directed by David Cronenberg • 1981 • Canada
Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside
With SCANNERS, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. 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, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human mind was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States.
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Jonathan Lethem on SCANNERS
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The SCANNERS Way
The following documentary, produced in 2014 by Michael Lennick, a Toronto-based documentarian and visual effects designer and supervisor, explores the “predigital” special effects in SCANNERS and features interviews with several of David Cronenberg’s collaborators.
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Michael Ironside on SCANNERS
In this interview, conducted in March 2014, actor Michael Ironside discusses SCANNERS and his extensive career in both Canada and Hollywood.
