Scanners 1981 film biography
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Scanners (1981)
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Scanners
For other uses, see Scanner (disambiguation).
1981 Canadian film
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
Scanners premiered in January 1981 to lukewarm reviews from critics but became one of the first films produced in Canada to successfully compete with American films at the international box office.[4][5][6][7] It brought Cronenberg and his controversial style of body horror attention to mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic.[8][9] It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to graphically explode.
Plot
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Hello, and welcome back to My Journey into Science Fiction Part 18. Scanners is a science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. The movie was released on January 14th 1981 and was a success at the box office. However, it was not nominated for any major awards, but The Academy of Science Fiction gave it a Saturn Award in 1981 for Best International Film.
The world is changing as some men and women are born with telepathic and telekinetic powers, and these people are called scanners. Darryl Revok is a powerful scanner with a plan for future domination. Doctor Paul Ruth needs someone who can help bring down Daryl and Cameron Vale is dispatched by ConSec to seek him out.
I have to admit that I was scared by the Scanners poster as a child and it’s a film I have somehow avoided, until now. Starting this journey has made me realise I’m becoming quite the fan of David Cronenberg, as I have already reviewed The Fly for this project. There is something unique in his style and when we meet Cameron Vale Stephen Lack in the shopping mall, I am so impressed with his ability to make a film look like a piece of modern art. There is plenty of colour in the mall,