Scanners
(2014)

Fiction

DVD

Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/HORROR/SCANNERS

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/HORROR/SCANNERS Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]
[United States] : The Criterion Collection
EDITION
[Criterion collection]
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9781604658675 CC2378DDVD, 1604658673, 9781604658675, 1604658673 :, 715515120012
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from web page

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

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981

Special features: The "Scanners" way, new documentary on the film's special effects, featuring interviews with Cronenberg's collaborators; Mental saboteur, a new interview with actor Michael Ironside; The Ephemerol diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack; Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC's "The Bob McLean show"; trailer and radio spots; Plus: an essay by critic Kim Newman

Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack

Rating: R

DVD, widescreen (1.78:1); stereo

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