Scanners (1981)
Part of the David Cronenberg
| Director: | David Cronenberg |
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| Certificate: | BBFC 18 |
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Sci-Fi horror in which a ciroiratuin attempts to use scanners (people born with a mutation that causes them to have telepathic and telekinetic abilities) for its own purposes. Here Cronenberg does conspiracy theories and paranoia to his usual high standards.
Other films in the David Cronenberg:
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Film: The Brood (Dir. David Cronenberg) (1979)
15 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Oliver Reed (!!) stars as an unconventional therapist who encourages Samantha Eggar to undergo “psychoplasmic” therapy – whereby mental and emotional trauma takes physical form – and produces scores of deformed, murderous children who prey upon her young (human) daughter. Made after a difficult custody battle between Cronenberg and his former wife, The Brood is perhaps the director’s most cathartic and autobiographical film.
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Film: Existenz (1999)
19 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Cronenberg returns to original-screenplay work with the crafty virtual-reality adventure eXistenZ (1999), which glistened with spinal bioports and sticky-icky “game pods”. Released around the same time as The Matrix, the movie appeared as the smarter, scrappier arthouse cousin to the self-important blockbuster.
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Film: Dead Ringers (1988)
26 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
What could be better than Jeremy Irons?
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Film: Stereo (1969)
29 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films.
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Film: Crimes Of The Future (1970)
29 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films.