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Information
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 103 min.
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 28,176
- Checks
- 7,461
- Favs
- 361
- Dislikes
- 63
- Favs/checks
- 4.8% (1:21)
- Favs/dislikes
- 6:1
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Mahler1860
Some cheese and campy acting keep this from being truly brilliant, but only just...a solid 8/10 for me. 9 years 10 months ago -
Siskoid
I've had a long history with David Cronenberg's Scanners, but this was my first time watching it. By long history, I mean I first saw shots of Michael Ironside popping veins at 10 or 11 years old in a magazine about the Unexplained. Obviously, I wanted to see this, but where and how? There may have been a Mad Magazine parody too, but still no way to see it. And whenever I thought about Scanners over the years (usually after watching another Cronenberg), I couldn't make it happen. Well, we live in a different world now. My first surprise is that I thought there'd be a lot more head-exploding action, and how early that iconic shot comes. Unless we count the computer as a brain, I guess. One of the weirdest hacking scenes in movie history, and I'm counting all of Hackers! So not the incredible classic I had imagined it to be, but I like this world of secret telepaths and how the story never goes where you think it will. 2 years 6 months ago
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This movie ranks #859 in The Criterion Collection
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