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David Cronenberg’s Scanners and The Brood coming to 4K Ultra HD with limited edition sets

January 16, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Second Sight Films has announced that two of David Cronenberg’s classic films, the 1981 sci-fi horror Scanners and the 1979 psychological body horror The Brood are set to arrived on limited edition 4K Ultra HD on March 31st; check out the cover artwork and details below… A scientist recruits a drifter with extraordinary telepathic ability […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: David Cronenberg, Scanners, The Brood

HBO adapting David Cronenberg’s Scanners as a series

September 22, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

It’s enough to make your head explode with excitement. David Cronenberg’s 80’s classic Scanners is being adapted and reimagined as a series for HBO Max.  Five years since the idea of a small-screen Scanners was first mooted as a project for Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Bron Studios, THR are reporting that it’s now a […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, News, Television Tagged With: David Cronenberg, HBO Max, Scanners

October Horrors 2021 – Scanners (1981)

October 10, 2021 by Graeme Robertson

Scanners, 1981. Directed by David Cronenberg Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neil, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: A man with extraordinary psychic powers is recruited by a secretive agency to hunt down others with powers similar to his own. Mind readers, mediums and mystics, the world is full of people claiming to possess […]

Filed Under: Graeme Robertson, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: David Cronenberg, Jennifer O’Neil, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Scanners, Stephen Lack

The Best David Cronenberg Movies of All Time

January 1, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents Cronenberg nightmare fuel… David Cronenberg is one of the most iconic horror directors of all time. His name has come to be synonymous with a subgenre of terror that focuses on the degradation of the human body by internal and external sources. And boy that does that get to us! The natural […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Red Stewart Tagged With: a history of violence, cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Dead Ringers, Marvelous Videos, Scanners, spider, The Brood, The Dead Zone, The Fly, videodrome

David Cronenberg’s Scanners is heading to the small screen for a TV adaptation

October 1, 2017 by Gary Collinson

According to Deadline, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Bron Studios have come out successful in a bidding war for the TV rights to David Cronenberg’s classic sci-fi horror Scanners, and are currently developing a small screen adaptation of the movie. Released in 1981, Scanners revolves around a group of people with telekinetic powers called “scanners”, […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: David Cronenberg, Scanners

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