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Call Number: DVD Horror Scanners
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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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.
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.
DVD, widescreen (1.78:1); stereo.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
712.
PUBLISHED
[New York, N.Y. ] : Criterion Collection [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 2 videodiscs (103 min.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604658408
1604658401
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cronenberg, David, 1943-
McGoohan, Patrick, 1928-2009,
O'Neill, Jennifer, 1948-
Lack, Stephen,
Criterion Collection (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Telepathy -- Drama.
Psychic ability -- Drama.
Corporations -- Drama.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.