Product Details
Scanners (Widescreen) General
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| Video Format | Widescreen |
| UPC | 027616865496 |
| Release Date | 08/28/2001 |
| Running Time | 1 hour 43 minutes |
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| Number of Discs | 1 |
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Special Features
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| Region 1 |
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| Keep Case |
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| Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 |
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| Letterbox - 1.85 |
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| Dolby Digital Mono - English |
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| Dolby Digital Mono - French |
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| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer |
Format
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| Widescreen |
| Closed Captioned |
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| French, Spanish |
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Cast & Crew
Miscellaneous
| Muze Description |
| Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, exercises the benefits of his special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. But a group of renegade scanners, led by the nefarious Revok, plans to create a race of telepathic ubermenschen who will rule the world. Vale must team up with a like-minded female scanner in order to thwart the plans of the fiendish gang. The protracted end game between Revok and Vale is heightened by a dark secret which is shockingly revealed just before their duel begins. |
| Synopsis |
| Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, exercises the benefits of his special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. But a group of renegade scanners, led by the nefarious Revok, plans to create a race of telepathic ubermenschen who will rule the world. Vale must team up with a like-minded female scanner in order to thwart the plans of the fiendish gang. The protracted end game between Revok and Vale is heightened by a dark secret which is shockingly revealed just before their duel begins. |
| Production Notes |
| Photographed in Eastmancolor on location in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The film was shot in a widescreen process, with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. |
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| Estimated budget $4.1 million. |
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| Cronenberg previously dealt with the subject of telepathy in one of his earlier, more experimental, short films: "Stereo" (1969, Canada). "Stereo" is 63 minutes long and was shot without direct sound on black-and-white 35mm stock; a voice-over narration was written and added to the film after editing. Its story unfolds in an undesignated year in the future at a clinical institution established for the study of telepathic powers. Various cold-blooded experiments take place in this eerie institute, and the film can be seen as a deadpan satire on the humorless solemnity of scientific language and methods. As of 1993, "Stereo" was not available on video. |
Reviews
| USA Today |
| "...A murky mood piece that has lingered in the memory for 15 years..." |
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| 01/10/1997 | p.3D | Mike Clark |
| Uncut |
| "[W]onderfully paranoid and menacingly moody..." |
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| 09/01/2005 | p.146 | Peter Hogan |
| Variety |
| "...[The] modernistic natural locations have been exceedingly well chosen and are beautifully complimented by Mark Irwin's sharp lensing..." |
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| 01/21/1981 | Cart. |
| Sight and Sound |
| "In Cronenberg's icy, insidious original the head-to-heads exude a menacing intensity..." |
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| 09/01/2005 | p.91 | Matthew Leyland |
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Pros: Grand, glorious gore, some decent action and a couple of good villains.
Cons: A weak, workmanlike effort with a muddled story and bland leading characters.
The Bottom Line: My feelings for SCANNERS have shrunk over time, but let it be said that I still think it has a good head on its shoulders, unless...
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Pros: they're among us, trying to take over the world
Cons: where is the love...?
The Bottom Line: as an early film by this horror master it is interesting to see and compare it with his development
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Pros: mind blowing gore effects, intelligent themes, atmosphere
Cons: cliche characters, hammy acting
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