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3 things I took away from Scanners

posted 12 years ago by ForrestHump
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1) Stephen Lack's dreadful performance. Oh. My. God.
2) The mole on that hacker guy's face. I want to c-u-u-t it off, ch-o-o-p it off, and make guacamole.
3) The poor makeup on Michael Ironside's forehead. Looked like a bad case of acne.

Hard to believe in a mere 5 years, Cronenberg would go on from from directing this amateurish B-movie piece of trash to developing The Fly which, to date, is still an absolute masterpiece of visual and psychological horror.

[–] psychocosmic-1 11 years ago

Yes. With a bigger budget there was no big moles on the actors faces in the Fly!

[–] theoriginalskinnyrinny 11 years ago

Similar to The Fly, he makes an the exterior of an ordinary office building look terrifying.

[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 11 years ago

Because of the oddities of Canada's film financing structures at the time, it was necessary to begin shooting with only two weeks' pre-production work, before the screenplay had been completed, with Cronenberg writing the script between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. each morning throughout shooting.

Since the production design team had no time to build sets, in some instances the crew had to drive around looking for things to shoot. As a result, Cronenberg has said, Scanners was a nightmare to make.

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

[–] ForrestHump 11 years ago

That explains why it turned out like Vinny Chase's box office bomb Medellín.

[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 11 years ago

It does help explain some of the cheesy things about Scanners...except it made pretty good money considering its budget.

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?