Review of Scanners (1981) by Amy H — 29 Nov 2010

Ridiculous and forgettable aside from the iconic head exploding shot.

This review of Scanners (1981) was written by Amy H on 29 Nov 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 Film C (695) on 23 May 2016

Watching this I try to imagine Cronenberg's directing his lead actors: I need you to look as if you're trying to blow somebody's head off…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Joey P (128) on 07 Apr 2016

Great ideas, but plodding and ultimately not that engaging…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Grant G (247) on 06 Jan 2015

A Thought-Provoking And Compelling Sci-Fi Horror Gem…

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 Tony P (976) on 16 Oct 2015

Howard Shore's avant garde score is absolutely brilliant…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Matt G (2,017) on 12 Jun 2015

About 20 minutes into this challenging film that goes nowhere, the Citizen Kane-equivalent of horror violence occurs when a man's head literally…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Joe M (1,521) on 21 Sep 2015

There is almost certainly an invisible government black op on standby & out on the prowl for any of these anomolous scanner types who are extremely…

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 Spangle (1,205) on 13 Jan 2017

Scanners is a David Cronenberg film, through and through…

Read Review

Review of Scanners (1981)

By Bill S (2,971) on 29 Mar 2015

Another great Cronenberg classic, Scanners is a fully realized world of sci-fi horror, that if it were made today would be a franchise…

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 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 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

By Nicholas A (355) on 08 Jun 2015

How can the Arnold was bad in the first movie and the this movie he is good Also this was the same thing as the first one…

Read Review

Review of Saw II (2005)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Dec 2005

In a fun house like this the elaborate tortures seem to leave behind the real world of pain and suffering for the realm of slapstick; they're…

Read Review

Review of Saw III (2006)

By Masonh (3) on 04 Feb 2007

This movie is just a whole bunch of people dying in rediculously painful ways with no way of escape…

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 Minority Report (2002)

By Pauljohnson (27) on 05 Jun 2012

Everybody Runs. Yeah, away from the damn cinema screen. A convoluted, contrived, predictable and uninteresting mess…

Read Review

Review of A Clockwork Orange (1971)

By Asoomro (1) on 27 May 2012

This movie was needlessly pornographic and violent in a bad way. It was disgusting and a waste of time…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Scanners

1981

67%491 Reviews

It's a Free World...

2007

68%164 Reviews

Animal Crackers

1930

72%247 Reviews

Deadgirl

2008

49%363 Reviews

Dark Blue World

2001

71%109 Reviews

Frankenweenie

2012

71%813 Reviews

Muppets from Space

1999

59%487 Reviews

Anna Karenina

2012

62%860 Reviews

Daybreakers

2010

59%656 Reviews

Cremaster 3

2002

70%73 Reviews