The Story Behind the Famous Head Explosion in David Cronenberg's 'Scanners'

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The Story Behind the Famous Head Explosion in David Cronenberg's 'Scanners'
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Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction pieces published in several independent magazines including RMIT Catalyst and The Bowen Street Press.

The Big Picture Sometimes a film can have a single moment that nearly overshadows the rest. Not that the 1981 film Scanners isn't a good movie, it belongs in the pantheon of great sci-fi horror that came out in the 1980s, and is considered a cult classic. It was the public's first exposure to the master of body horror, writer-director David Cronenberg, this being his breakthrough onto the scene after a few years of honing his craft in grindhouse cinema.

Scanners R Horror Sci-FiThriller A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called"scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners. Related David Cronenberg's ‘American Psycho’ Adaptation We Never Got To See We almost saw Patrick Bateman's dark journey end in a big musical number. The baseline of the head's filling was, naturally, fake blood. The classic formula of corn syrup, flour, and food dye could only get them so far; they had the blood, but the human head contains a brain, a skull, and general viscera.

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