Review – Scanners

In the big low-brow cinema lexicon, this one’s known as the “head blowed up” movie, so called due to a memorable scene early in the production. The plot posits that a Thalidomide-esque drug somehow transformed a small group of individuals into psychics capable of “scanning,” reading minds, projecting thoughts and making heads blow up. As an early example of horror maestro David Cronenberg’s work, this is an unpolished but nonetheless visually powerful film. If only the script and acting had been just a little less ham-handed. Mildly amusing