22 March 2009

Yes, we scan

Scanners

(1980)
I'm not ready to prostrate myself at the Cronenberg altar on the basis of this, but I am intrigued to wonder what he might do with this material today, with a budget and the ability to hire as his lead actor someone other than the aptly named Stephen Lack, who is certainly the worst actor in the history of cinema, and maybe the worst since Sophocles thought of that weird story of murder and incest.

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