David Cronenberg Retrospective: Scanners
February 25, 2012
Scanners! You were far sillier than I remembered!
Cronenberg's next film after The Brood lacks its gravitas. Scanners actually differs from almost all Cronenberg films in that there is far less emphasis on psychological and physiological irregularity, and almost none of the skewed sexuality that permeates his other films. Scanners is, dare I say it, a pretty straight horror/sci-fi flick.
Following on from reflective ruminations of our time in the BBC Scanning Room (see previous post)... “We’re gonna do it the Scanner way. I’m gonna suck your brain dry!”
