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- Title
- Scanners
- AKA
- Telekinesis (Mexico)
- Year of Film
- 1981
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Starring
- Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman, Jock Brandis, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore
- Origin of Film
- Canada
- Type of Poster
- Quad
- Style of Poster
- --
- Origin of Poster
- UK
- Year of Poster
- 1981
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- Joann Daley
- Size (inches)
- 30 1/16" x 39 6/16"
- SS or DS
- SS
- Tagline
- 10 SECONDS: The Pain Begins. 15 SECONDS: You Can't Breathe. 20 SECONDS: You Explode. | ...Their Thoughts Can Kill!
David Cronenberg‘s ‘future shock’ classic Scanners features a memorable turn by Michael Ironside as the superbly-monikered Daryl Revok, the evil leader of a renegade group of ‘Scanners’; mutant humans born with extreme telepathic and telekinetic powers who are capable of controlling machines and infiltrating the minds of others, often with head-popping consequences. The film is responsible for one of the best animated gifs on the internet.
This British quad features great artwork by Joann Daley and a great tagline. It loses the headline seen on the US one sheet but retains the ’10 seconds…’ section.
Check out the equally great Japanese poster.
The film’s original British trailer is on YouTube (“You pray it will end…and it will!”).
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I’d first discovered your online collection in the form of Q – The Winged Serpent.
Since that time, I’d had your site bookmarked as I absolutely love the large, hi resolution images you’ve shared.
Today’s Scanners posters are beautiful in their own creepy, compelling way. Thanks for posting them for nerds like myself 🙂