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Scanners
Rated R, 102 min. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Charles Shamata.
Wanna see someone's head blow up and eyes pop out? Be certain of your answer before casting your gaze on Scanners, because otherwise it's liable to blow up in your face without warning. Toronto's king of the visceral horror tale, David Cronenberg (Videodrome, The Fly, Naked Lunch) tells another of his mind-tripping stories designed to get underneath your skin and your psyche. Though the ideas in this movie are a good twist on the body-snatchers idea in which there exists among us an imperceptible breed of telepathic humans called scanners, and the good ones are called on to weed out the bad ones, who are bent on world domination, their execution leaves too many details too fuzzy. Still, this relatively early work from Cronenberg shows all his signature stylistics in full bloom.
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