Review of Scanners (1981) by Björn O — 19 May 2010

Classic Cronenberg with the infamous head exploding scene.This movie turned a few heads back in 1981.They dont make horror films like any more!

This review of Scanners (1981) was written by Björn O on 19 May 2010.

Scanners has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Scanners

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Brett C (553) on 11 Nov 2014

Another sleeper hit. That was an amazing film. Self-induced psycho-kinectic powers. Genius idea. Probably fairly new at the time…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Ross V (116) on 30 Dec 2016

Scanners is a movie that is as every bit about exploding conventions as it is about exploding heads…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Andrew O (949) on 05 Dec 2018

Scanners jarringly veers from dull and sleep-inducing technobabble to outrageously violent action, and yet once its over it retains a strangely…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Ernesto C (20) on 08 Mar 2015

Probably my favorite Cronenberg movie. Not as gross as the movie poster might suggest but still brutal enough for the gorehounds…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Brian S (2,291) on 22 Apr 2016

A classic. Special effects are spectacular, even by today's standards…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Charles P (1,784) on 08 Aug 2015

The grisly special effects (exploding heads and all) are the most impressive thing about the film, but they're in service to a premise that,…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Chris H (3,076) on 25 Mar 2018

On a second viewing I enjoyed it far more. More great Cronenberg. The special effects are insanely gorey and cool…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Patrick C (750) on 27 Dec 2015

Great 80's horror/thriller/sci-fi. Michael Ironside carries his weight but Stephen Lack lives up to his name…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By David F (1,889) on 11 Jan 2017

Ho hum...it's hard to believe that this is one of those films we couldn't see growing up because of an R rating…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Eli?Ka P (2) on 04 Feb 2017

I don't think I'd seen this film since the days of VHS and I was quite surprised what a good film this was…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Strange Days (1995)

By Martin D (1,305) on 20 Feb 2010

My main interest in seeing this was to see an early film by the director of The Hurt Locker (which I found to be rather brilliant)…

Read Review

Review of Nowhere (1997)

By Shane M (526) on 01 Jan 2004

This movie is like a bad acid trip....scene after scene of vile, disgusting images with no redeeming qualities whatsoever…

Read Review

Review of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

By Gamer44 (10) on 05 Dec 2012

My question is how did spider-man 2 score better than the first instalment…

Read Review

Review of The Devil's Rejects (2005)

By Gabora. (60) on 30 Jan 2006

People caught in posession of kiddy porn are thrown into jail because the type of people that would watch such a thing are likely to enact…

Read Review

Review of Saw (2004)

By Kevinb. (15) on 20 Jul 2006

Uh...first of all...this isnt a horror film...its a snuff film...its not scarey, it just nasty...bad acting and stupid plot...as most snuff…

Read Review

Review of The Incredible Hulk (2008)

By Mick510 (2) on 21 Oct 2016

I hate this movie. By the end of the movie I wanted to kill myself. The story is awful. The dialogue sucks…

Read Review

Review of Next (2007)

By Jiminybbeat (1) on 26 Apr 2007

What a total POS movie! Terrible on nearly every level with Cage turning in yet another dreadful, self-indulgent performance…

Read Review

Review of K-PAX (2001)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Oct 2001

Tailor-made for the K-Mart sect, K-PAX is a weepy regression fantasy for the psychologically half-conscious…

Read Review

Review of 28 Days Later (2002)

By Richs. (2) on 31 May 2007

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'll always remember how bad it was because I was laughing the whole way through…

Read Review

Review of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

By Keyflame (17) on 20 Mar 2022

A MASSIVE miss use of the term that I don't want to say, but I will say the word but the letters will be switched around, erap…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Scanners

1981

67%491 Reviews

In the Electric Mist

2009

51%371 Reviews

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000

83%729 Reviews

The Scorpion King

2002

49%548 Reviews

Surf Ninjas

1993

55%352 Reviews

Ice Age: Continental Drift

2012

59%800 Reviews

Source Code

2011

76%1,085 Reviews

Fame

2009

52%479 Reviews

Into the Blue 2: The Reef

2009

38%122 Reviews

King Kong

2005

69%1,005 Reviews