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Horror Movie Club

Scanners (1981)

Horror Movie Club

Ashvin and Brian

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We grunt, strain, and blow each other’s minds in this episode on Scanners.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know someone's out there.

0:07.0

Hey there, listeners, welcome to horror movie club, the show where two dudes who aren't

0:20.7

quite nerds but not quite nubes.

0:22.5

Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review.

0:25.2

I'm Oshfin and I'm on the phone with Brian.

0:27.3

And this week we're talking about the 1981 film, Scanners, written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, and Michael Ironside.

0:38.5

In this film, a man with psychic powers is recruited by a private company to hunt down an underground group of people with similar capabilities.

0:47.1

If you are new to our show, Brian and I are going to have spoiler-free discussion for the first 10 to 15 minutes.

0:52.8

Then we'll take a quick break and you're going to hear a little bit of music.

0:55.7

And then we'll come back, go over the plot, spoil the film, and give our review.

1:01.7

Brian, this was the first time watch for me.

1:03.8

Had you seen this one before?

1:05.6

I had seen it before, but I think this is only the second time I've seen it.

1:08.9

Oh, okay.

1:09.8

I know I've called you out on

1:11.4

this in the past i feel like you've got a bit of a kronin boner uh you like this uh this guy

1:17.0

karnenberg quite a bit right i do yeah yeah uh and uh yeah i think i've only seen a few of his

1:23.0

films like uh the fly obviously uh we saw the brood.

1:30.8

And, oh, what are some more video drone?

1:33.0

What were the more recent ones that we've seen?

1:34.1

Crimes of the future.

1:34.6

Yeah.

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