Scanners

I will always have fond memories of this film and you'll be hard pressed to ever see me write something bad about David Cronenberg...well...maybe about M BUTTERFLY but we'll forget about that one. Still..upon recent viewing I was shocked at just how dated SCANNERS is. Sure, it still has one of the best head explosions you'll ever see and the creep out factor is still over the top but there is something about this film that doesn't quite stand the test of time. It may rest in the fact that the future has caught up with his past vision of it...it could be that Stephen Lack is still horrible in the lead or it could be that we've seen this flick ripped off so many times now that we've forgotten where the rip-off begins and the imitation ends. Once again there is the amazing score from Howard Shore and there are no complaints to be had with Cronenberg's directing style...perhaps it is simply the fact SCANNERS is a product of it's time and hence must be viewed as such.