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- Cast: Jennifer O'Neill | Lawrence Dane | Michael Ironside | Patrick McGoohan | Robert A. Silverman | Stephen Lack
- Directors: David Cronenberg
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- Product Types: Movies & TV Home Entertainment
- Formats: DVD
- Genres: Cult Cinema | Horror | Science Fiction | Thrillers
- Studios: Criterion
- Original Release Date: January 14, 1981
- Product Release Date: July 15, 2014
- Rating: r
- More: David Cronenberg | 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.
Special Features
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director David Cronenberg
- The “Scanners” Way, a new documentary by Michael Lennick on the film’s special effects, featuring interviews with Cronenberg’s collaborators
- Mental Saboteur, a new interview with actor Michael Ironside
- The Ephemerol Diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack
- Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC’s The Bob McLean Show
- New, restored 2K digital transfer of Stereo (1969), Cronenberg’s first feature film
- Trailer and radio spots
- An essay by critic Kim Newman
- New cover illustration by Connor Willumsen
Specifications
- Runtime:103
- Audio:Original Monaural
- Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
- Region:1