just saw scanners
 

i don't think i'd ever watched it entirely. great film, very canadian feel to it (eg. you can tell it's n. american but somehow.. european), colors were terrific. it's a monumental pity that the main character is such a hammy actor. all the other performers were quite good and he sticks out with this contrast. dubbing was a bit dodgy in spots.

the spy-like intrigue/horror sub-genre is not one that i imagine contains a lot of movies.. people might erroneously call scanners a sci-fi but i don't think so. the facial freak-out telekenesis scenes were of the highest order!

I totally agree two thumbs up for "Scanners" the music in that film is pretty good too, gives a real tense urgency to the film.

yea you're right! there's some bizarre stuff going on with fuzzy synths and insecty sounds

I'm a big Cronenberg fan. Scanners was a cool movie. :-)

Cronenberg fucking rocks Scanners and Videodrome are two of my all time favorites.

I LOVE Videodrome. Probably my all-time favorite Cronenberg film.

Yeah Scanners is excellent. Has anyone seen the sequel though as I never bothered and was wondering if it's worth hunting down?

never seen the scanners sequel or videodrome but weirdly, my mother really liked videodrome when she caught it on hbo one night a long time ago. she was raving about the 'gun-hand in the stomach scene' the next day?

There's actually a couple of sequels if I'm not mistaken. And there's Scanners Cop or some such thing, but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with Scanners or not. I can say, however, that I've seen Scanners 2... and, no, in my very humble opinion it is NOT worth hunting down.

a long time since i saw scanners, i seem to remember the fight at the end was vien popping-tastic. yeah i remember it being quite cool