David Cronenberg is one whacked out Canadian. Almost every movie the guy has been involved with has some sort of anus typewriter, a cancer-gun, giant phallic do-dads or AWESOME exploding heads. Scanners has one of the best exploding heads in film and it happens in the first ten minutes of the flick.
This guy is on some panel and he has some kind of 'special' mental ability that allows him to scan a person's mind. Well...turns out our old buddy Michael Ironside, who plays Darryl Revok, a sick and twisted naughty Scanner with the ability to blow someones nugget into warm, pink mist, volunteers to be scanned by our bespectacled victim. Our hapless nerd Scanner, tries to scan Ironside but is forcible scanned himself! Hilarity ensues as his melon explodes like a pinata. Scanners are wicked cool. They can set you on fire, burst your organs, fry your brain, read your mind or even influence folks. Being a Scanner would be awesome.
This guy is on some panel and he has some kind of 'special' mental ability that allows him to scan a person's mind. Well...turns out our old buddy Michael Ironside, who plays Darryl Revok, a sick and twisted naughty Scanner with the ability to blow someones nugget into warm, pink mist, volunteers to be scanned by our bespectacled victim. Our hapless nerd Scanner, tries to scan Ironside but is forcible scanned himself! Hilarity ensues as his melon explodes like a pinata. Scanners are wicked cool. They can set you on fire, burst your organs, fry your brain, read your mind or even influence folks. Being a Scanner would be awesome.
Our exploding head is pure physical special effects bliss. Master FX artist, Dick Smith [http://www.dicksmithmake-up.com/], took care of our grisly head popping. This head burst is cool because there is a HUGE flap of facial skin
that stays with us and falls over the chest like a lobster bib. Also, it's cut well and you don't get the 'frozen mannequin' look that some lesser films give us. This is one of the better exploding head sequences in film. Check it out!
that stays with us and falls over the chest like a lobster bib. Also, it's cut well and you don't get the 'frozen mannequin' look that some lesser films give us. This is one of the better exploding head sequences in film. Check it out!
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