Scanners (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection) R
10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Ironside & Stephen Lack | |
Performer: | Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane & Patrick McGoohan | |
Directed by | David Cronenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
In Cronenberg's icy, insidious original the head-to-heads exude a menacing intensity...
Sight and Sound
...A murky mood piece that has lingered in the memory for 15 years...
USA Today
4 stars out of 5 -- David Cronenberg's original 1981 cult classic remains serious sci-fi...
Total Film
[W]onderfully paranoid and menacingly moody...
Uncut
...[The] modernistic natural locations have been exceedingly well chosen and are beautifully complimented by Mark Irwin's sharp lensing...
Variety
SCANNERS may have earned Cronenberg a permanent place in the gorehound hall of fame, but it also represented an early inch into mainstream genre filmmaking. -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, exercises the benefits of his special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. But a group of renegade scanners, led by the nefarious Revok, plans to create a race of telepathic ubermenschen who will rule the world. Vale must team up with a like-minded female scanner in order to thwart the plans of the fiendish gang. The protracted end game between Revok and Vale is heightened by a dark secret which is shockingly revealed just before their duel begins.