TY - ADVS AU - Cronenberg,David AU - Dane,Lawrence AU - David,Pierre AU - Héroux,Claude AU - Ironside,Michael AU - Irwin,Mark AU - Lack,Stephen AU - McGoohan,Patrick AU - Newman,Kim AU - O'Neill,Jennifer AU - Sanders,Ronald AU - Shore,Howard AU - Silverman,Robert A. AU - Solnicki,Victor AU - Spier,Carol ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Janus Films TI - Scanners T2 - Criterion collection SN - 1604658673 PY - 2014///] CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - [Publisher not identified] KW - Corporations KW - Drama KW - Psychic ability KW - Telepathy KW - Feature films KW - lcgft KW - Horror films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1981; Special features: Disc 1: Trailer; Radio spots. Disc 2: 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); The Bob McLean Show (excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC's "The Bob McLean show"); Stereo (Cronenberg's first feature from 1969, precursor to Scanners, stars Ronald Mlodzik). Plus: an essay by critic Kim Newman; Art director, Carol Spier ; edited by Ronald Sanders ; music by Howard Shore ; director of photography, Mark Irwin; Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert Silverman; Rating: R N2 - 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 ER -