Critic Reviews
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Like Tod Browning, Cronenberg doesn't have the stylistic resources to match the forcefulness of his ideas, but his movies remain in the mind for the pull of their private obsessions.
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, Variety
All this should give fans of David Cronenberg's previous pix their money's worth, although lack of any rooting interest vitiates any possible suspense and highly elegant visual style works against much shock value.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Scanners is so lockstep that we are basically reduced to watching the special effects, which are good but curiously abstract, because we don't much care about the people they're happening around.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
The quality of the film's inventiveness is not always of the first order, which is too bad because Mr. Cronenberg does seem to be a director-writer of some style.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Ironside is fantastic as the lethal Revok, helping make this a popular cult favorite.
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Cast
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Stephen Lackas Vale -
Jennifer O'Neillas Kim -
Patrick McGoohanas Dr. Paul Ruth
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Lawrence Z. Daneas Keller -
Chuck Shamataas Gaudi -
Michael Ironsideas Revok
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