Part of An Evening with Michael Ironside

David Cronenberg’s commercial breakthrough film may have oozed its way into our (pop-)cultural memory because of FX whiz Chris Walas’s superbly realized head explosion. But it also represents an overall evolution of the director’s signature soft spot for mutations. Scanners are people with unusual telepathic and/or telekinetic powers who are either exploited by the industrial complex or, like Michael Ironside’s highly charismatic terrorist leader Darryl Revok, have withdrawn into the militant underground, where they plan to topple the world order—visionary! (mk)

In attendance of Michael Ironside (actor)