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Scanners (1981)

Directed by David Cronenberg

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, lordofthemovies, seanCduregger, eduardovictory

Overview

After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Rated R | Length 103 minutes

Actors

Jennifer O'Neill | Stephen Lack | Patrick McGoohan | Lawrence Dane | Michael Ironside | Robert A. Silverman | Lee Broker | Mavor Moore | Adam Ludwig | Murray Cruchley | Fred Döderlein | Géza Kovács | Sonny Forbes | Jérôme Tiberghien | Denis Lacroix | Elizabeth Mudry | Victor Désy | Louis Del Grande | Anthony Sherwood | Ken Umland | Anne Anglin | Jock Brandis | Jack Messinger | Victor Knight | Karen Fullerton | Margaret Gadbois | Terrance P. Coady | Steve Michaels | Malcolm Nelthorpe | Nicholas Kilbertus | Don Buchsbaum | Roland Nincheri | Kimberly McKeever | Robert Boyd | Graham Batchelor | Dean Hagopian | Alex Stevens | Neil Affleck | John Brasington | Christopher Britton | Jack Canon | Richard Chapman Jr. | Leon Herbert | William Hope | Thomas Kovacs | Michael Maloley | Ian McQue | Chuck Shamata | Sam Stone

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

The Criterion edition of this was on sale so I finally bit the bullet and snagged it. The packaging is amazing and the print is gorgeous; easily the best this movie’s ever looked. Considering I grew up watching this on VHS to begin with, it’s quite a jump up in quality.

I had a problem with the sound on my system though that was causing some pretty serious echo/reverb in the front speakers. I had to pause the disc and pull up my AVR settings to sort it out. It was more noticeable because of the stereo sound on this disc, but I’m sure it was muddying the sound on other movies too. I thought dialogue sounded a bit echo-y on other films the last week or so but with surround and Atmos it wasn’t nearly as defined. Glad I tracked it down and fixed it though.

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