just saw scanners

[buddy]

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!

[Aylmer]

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.

[buddy]

Originally posted by Aylmer
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

[Dreaming Girl]

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

[Elvis_Christ]

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

[Dreaming Girl]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
Cronenberg fucking rocks Scanners and Videodrome are two of my all time favorites.

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

[sleepaway]

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

[buddy]

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?

[Dreaming Girl]

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

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.

[Splatter Phreak]

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