David Cronenberg’s Scanners is Coming to Blu-ray!

We have fantastic news for fans of Scanners that have been eagerly awaiting news of a Blu-ray release. David Cronenberg has been overseeing a newly restored transfer of the film that will be available on Blu-ray & DVD as part of The Criterion Collection in July:

"With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human brain was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States."

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

• New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director David Cronenberg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• The “Scanners” Way, a new documentary on the film’s special effects
• New interview with actor Michael Ironside
• The Ephemerol Diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack
• Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC’s The Bob McLean Show
• Stereo (1969), Cronenberg’s first feature film
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kim Newman
• New cover by Connor Willumsen

Scanners will be available on July 15th on DVD and in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. To pre-order, visit:

• http://www.criterion.com/films/28043-scanners