Best Movies about Telepath

Filmy o telepatovi

In this special edition KBZ article, we’re going to review and list The Best Films About Telepathy. Telepathy is one of the most popular psychic abilities in film and involves one person reading and/or transmitting thoughts to another person’s mind. The resulting effect often includes the control of the other person’s mind by the person with telepathic powers. A variation of telepathic powers includes Dream Telepathy which we will expand on below. Examples of popular telepathy films include The Shining (1980), Scanners (1981), X-Men (2000), What Women Want (2000) and Doctor Sleep (2019).

Though this article will only cover films showing the telepathy psychic ability, you can check out our other lists of films by psychic ability below (including our entire list of every film listed by psychic ability):

• Kompletní seznam filmů podle Psychic Power Ability
• Nejlepší filmy o telekinezi
• Nejlepší filmy o telepatii
• Nejlepší filmy o pyrokinezi
• Nejlepší filmy o ESP a jasnovidectví
• Nejlepší filmy o médiích
• Nejlepší filmy o předtuchách a předtuchách
• Nejlepší komedie o duševních silách
• Nejlepší filmy o duševních silách

For our rankings we’re going to use some criteria to help define and refine our list. First, the film must show some form of telepathic power. Examples of telepathy can include a person reading someone’s mind to the telepath controlling the mind and actions of another person.

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Second, we’re going to give priority to telepathy films that show the various ways a telepathic person controls another person. These tend to be the best examples of telepathy in film and show why a telepathic ability is often considered the most powerful, and often most dangerous, psychic ability.

Third, we are going to include some Films Based on Superheroes & Comics, but this will mostly be relegated to the X-Men franchise and films where Scarlet Witch has a prominent role. As we outlined in our Complete List of Films by Psychic Power Ability, there are only a few Superhero franchises and films that specifically deal with psychic power abilities. Professor X, Jean Grey / Dark Phoenix and Scarlet Witch are considered three of the most prominent and powerful superheroes with telepathic abilities so their films will be considered for ranking purposes. Note: We are aware that Mantis and Cosmo the Spacedog are also telepaths in the Guardians of the Galaxy series of films, but the films have minor themes of telepathy so will unlikely make our Top 20.

Fourth, we’re going to deprioritize ranking for Films about Dream Telepathy. This is a sub variation of telepathy where telepathic communication (and sometimes control) happens in a dream state. Given there are only a handful of films that involve dream telepathy, we likely won’t have a separate article ranking these films. But for purposes here, we would rank the following dream telepathy films (from best to worst) in this order: Dreamscape (1984), The Black Phone (2022), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), In Dreams (1999) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988). You can also bookmark our Complete List of Films by Psychic Power Ability as we’ll always be updating this list once new films about dream telepathy are released.

And fifth, we had to follow our rule for all of KBZ’s film listings where we only list films that have a 4.0/10 or higher rating. We’re also only considering films released after 1970 unless they’re considered one of a few classic Films About Psychic Powers made prior to that date.

Náš úplný seznam filmů o duševních silách obsahuje více než 240 filmů z let 1960 – 2023, a přestože v naší sbírce ještě nerozdělujeme filmy podle jejich psychických schopností, můžete se podívat na náš Kompletní seznam filmů podle schopnosti duševní síly, pokud mají oblíbenou psychickou schopnost a filmy, ve kterých se používají. Můžete se také přihlásit k odběru našeho newsletteru, abyste byli informováni o tom, jak budeme vydávat budoucí články o každé psychické schopnosti a přidat do naší sbírky nejnovější a nejlepší filmy podžánru.

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#20 The Sender (1982) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#19 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#18 The Beastmaster (1982) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#17 Ve tvých očích (2014) Kde streamovat/koupit: Amazonka

#16 Fenomény (1985) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#14 Freaks (2019) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#13 God Told Me To (1976) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#12 Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#11 The Fury (1978) Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

Spiknutí: Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent – who wants to share the fear of his victims with her.

KBZ’s Take: Most films involving telepathy typically show a one-way connection where the telepath reads or controls another’s mind. Fear is one of the better films that shows a telepathic connection between two psychics where they can see what the other is seeing – and one of them is a serial killer.

This film has a similar plot to the Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) which is a much more well-known film of the subgenre. But where Eyes of Laura Mars focuses more on themes of clairvoyance, Fear is a great suspense thriller that delves into the psychological effects of a telepathic link. A forgotten film of the 1990’s that’s worth checking out by fans of the subgenre.

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#9
Village of the Damned

Spiknutí: One day the peaceful village of Midwich is cast into a mysterious sleep for several hours, but with no obvious consequences, until soon all the women of child-bearing age turn out to be pregnant. Their children are all born at the same time, and grow quickly into very spooky young people, with strange white-blonde hair and eerie eyes.

KBZ’s Take: Though we personally prefer John Carpenter’s 1995 remake of this film, the original is a classic film of the subgenre and one that is a must-see for fans of Films about Psychic Powers. Though the film was released over 60 years ago, it’s had a massive influence on the subgenre – especially with respect to the more sinister effects of mind control.

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Spiknutí: Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

KBZ’s Take: The Innocents is a good companion film to our previous entry, The Village of the Damned. While both films are focused on children with telepathic powers, they explore much different themes. Village of the Damned incorporates themes of telepathy within an Alien Invasion framework whereas The Innocents is focused solely on young children developing psychic powers and their inability to understand or control them.

We do have to note that The Innocents is not an action-packed film of the subgenre. It’s a slow burn type of film that takes it’s time exploring themes of adolescence and how quickly the innocence of youth is lost once the children start using their newfound psychic powers with increasingly malicious intent.

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Spiknutí: Cho-In can control other people’s minds when they are within his field of sight. Except one man.

KBZ’s Take: The South Korean film, Haunters, is one of the most unique films about telepathy. We don’t want to go too much into the plot here as it’s best going into the film knowing as little as possible. We will say though that the film features some of the best displays of telepathy in the subgenre and how dangerous telepathy can be in the hands (and mind) of the wrong person.

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Spiknutí: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

KBZ’s Take: While Dreamscape’s main psychic power theme is dream telepathy, it’s also a film about traditional telepathy and ESP.

This is another classic film of the 1980’s that has been forgotten over time. While most people over the age of 35 have seen this film (and still have an emotionally scarred childhood as a result), it’s a much tamer film in this day and age. But that doesn’t take away from the film’s great concept, execution and genuinely terrifying dream sequences. If you somehow have still not seen this film, it’s a much watch of the subgenre.

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#5
Po čem ženy touží

Spiknutí: Reklamní ředitel Nick Marshall je namyšlený, ale co se stane se šovinistickým chlapem, když najednou slyší, co si ženy myslí? Nick je povýšen, ale poté, co mu nehoda umožní naslouchat ženským myšlenkám, použije svůj nově objevený talent proti Darcymu, svému novému šéfovi, který se do něj, jak se zdá, zamiluje.

KBZ’s Take: Most comedies about psychic powers often use telekinesis resulting in physical or slapstick comedy situations. What Women Want is one of the few comedies that utilizes telepathy as its comedic theme and it’s one of the best of the subgenre.

In a role seemed tailor-made for Mel Gibson (as Nick Marshall), the film uses the theme of telepathy to explore the age-old conundrum of how men and women think differently and can’t relate to each other…with often hilarious results. Though it’s pseudo-sequel, What Men Want (2019), reverses the gender roles, it can’t quite live up to its predecessor’s level of comedy and chemistry between Gibson and Helen Hunt.

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Spiknutí: Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

KBZ’s Take: We could have used any of the X-Men films in this slot as they all feature various forms of telepathy. But we wanted to focus on Professor X (Patrick Stewart) as he’s the most powerful telepath of the X-Men.

While Logan (2017) shows how destructive and unstable Professor X’s telepathic ability can become, it’s the first film that introduces the Cerebro supercomputer and how telepaths can use it to find fellow mutants. It’s also a great introduction to the power of telepathy in the X-Men world that’s equal parts benign and destructive.

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Spiknutí: Jack Torrance přijme místo správce v hotelu Overlook, kde musí spolu se svou ženou Wendy a jejich synem Dannym na zimu žít izolovaně od zbytku světa. Ale nejsou připraveni na šílenství, které se skrývá uvnitř.

KBZ’s Take: Some subgenre fans might question why Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film isn’t tops on our list. There are a few reasons we had while compiling our rankings.

First, though Danny Torrance’s ‘shining’ psychic ability is a major part of the story and film, it takes a back seat to the eventual psychological breakdown and possession of his father, Jack Torrance.

Second, there are two films that better explore and expand upon the nature of telepathic ability – one of which is closely related to this film.

Regardless of its ranking here, The Shining is a classic horror film, one of the scariest films of all-time and a perfect film to watch on Halloween night.

Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

Spiknutí: Skenery jsou muži a ženy narození s neuvěřitelnými telepatickými a telekinetickými schopnostmi. Je mnoho lidí, kteří využívají výhod svých zvláštních darů bezpečným a uvážlivým způsobem. Existuje však skupina odpadlých skenerů, kteří plánují vytvořit rasu, která ovládne svět.

KBZ’s Take: Stejně jako u většiny Cronenbergových sci-fi filmů je zde téměř vždy zdravá dávka Tělesného hororu. Scanners přináší na obou frontách jeden z nejlepších filmů o duševních silách a jeden z nejikoničtějších Tělesných hororů celého subžánru. V tomto filmu je tolik klasických tělesných hororových scén vyvolaných psychickými silami, že je těžké vybrat jen jednu. Poznámka: grafický obsah v předchozích odkazech a není pro slabé povahy.

To, co také dává tomuto filmu náskok před ostatními subžánrovými filmy, je celý příběh o tom, jak Scanners vznikají a jejich plán ovládnout svět. Je to také určující role Michaela Ironsidea jako zlotřilého skeneru, Revoka.

Ačkoli je David Cronenberg známý především svými kultovními filmy o hororu těla, jako je Videodrome (1983) a The Fly (1986), jeho děsivý pohled na destruktivní a nihilistickou povahu psychických sil ve Scannerech patří k nezapomenutelným tématům filmu. podžánr.

Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

#1
Doktor spánku

Spiknutí: Dan Torrance, stále neodvolatelně zjizvený traumatem, které prožil jako dítě v Overlook, bojoval, aby našel nějaké zdání míru. Tento mír je však narušen, když se setká s Abrou, odvážnou teenagerkou s vlastním mocným mimosmyslovým darem, známým jako lesk. Abra instinktivně poznala, že Dan sdílí její moc, a tak ho vyhledala, zoufale touží po jeho pomoci proti nemilosrdné Rose the Hat a jejím stoupencům.

KBZ’s Take: This film is the main reason we could not rank The Shining higher on this list. Where the first film is an introduction to ‘the shining’s’ mix of telepathic and clairvoyant abilities, Doctor Sleep expands on the powers of this psychic ability while also exploring various forms of telepathy.

There’s Dan Torrance’s (Ewan McGregor) suppression of the shining ability through alcoholism, the cult of psychics that can use various psychic powers including telepathy to hunt down and kill other psychics for their ‘life force’ and the telepathic link between Dan and Abra (Kyliegh Curran) which is explored in greater detail than the first film’s link between Dan and Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers).

We’re not saying Doctor Sleep is a better film than The Shining by any means. However, it better expands on the psychic abilities introduced in the first film and provides closure to Dan Torrance’s story and that of the Overlook Hotel.

Kde streamovat / kupovat: Amazonka

CAPSULE: SUSPECT ZERO (2004)

SPIKNUTÍ: A mysterious vigilante cursed with supernatural visions singles out disgraced FBI agent Tom Mackelway as the man to apprehend a prolific serial killer.

KOMENTÁŘE : There’s a certain level of hubris, even for a cinematic interpretation of the FBI, in naming a secret program “Project Icarus.” Training agents in the gift of second sight to allow them to pursue elusive murderers, “Project Icarus” suggests unavoidable doom for the participants. All those involved end up dead or insane, except for one—who’s still kind of nuts. Ben Kingsley provides a stellar performance as Ben O’Ryan, the kind-of-nuts agent cursed with the sight; Aaron Eckhart provides a middling performance as Tom Mackelway, a migraine-prone lawman; and Carrie-Anne Moss is reduced to just kicking around as, perhaps, the audience’s conduit into the action. With the man behind Počatý a Shadow of the Vampire orchestrating what should be a hazy, unsettling outing in the world of serial killers, one has to wonder went gone wrong, and if hubris had anything to do with that.

Merhige has somehow managed to direct a ho-hum procedural here, which is a real pity. The stakes seem to be high—there are hundreds of dead and missing people, most of them children, and the killer(s) evade justice—but Eckhart’s FBI man just seems kind of addled and pissed off (explained at least in part by the fact that the poor guy suffers from constant headaches). There’s a bit of ambiguity, I suppose, vis-à-vis O’Ryan: no one that calm and smiling could possibly be an unalloyed goodie, right? Eh, maybe. Or not. Whenever Kingsley wasn’t on screen, it was a bit difficult to care.

Looking closely, one can see the missed opportunities here. Merhige unfortunately keeps his keen sense of visual on the stylistic periphery. The dark art of “Remote Viewing,” the technical term for the paranormal power of perception, is a treat to view, with visions of the crimes, and those involved, coming through the viewer’s pupil in the form of a sepia-’90s camcorder hybrid. There are also singularly creepy charcoal renderings, and the occasional shot of what I’ll call as the Wandering Merhige Eye (those familiar with Počatý may guess it’s an extreme close-up of a troubled, scanning eyeball).

My best guess is that main(ish)-stream filmmaking is beyond the reach of certain auteurs who are steeped in their own vision. (John Paisz is another of these, albeit in a manner quite different from Merhige.) Počatý is one of the most original films of the second half of the 20th century. It is something extreme, and different from just about any feature film. Shadow of the Vampire similarly explores mythical (and ocular) themes through a comedy-horror lens. Unfortunately, Podezření nula is little more than wasted potential across the board. That’s not to say it isn’t “good enough,” but it is pouze good enough—when it could have been a tantalizing vision of humanity’s darkest corners.

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212. AFTER LAST SEASON (2009)

“This movie makes no sense. I don’t mean the story doesn’t make sense, it almost does. I mean the movie as a thing that exists doesn’t make sense.”–Rob Steele

PŘÍMO : Mark Region

FUNKCE : Jason Kulas, Peggy McClellan

SPIKNUTÍ : Matthew and Sarah are med students with an interest in neurology. A fellow student is knifed to death by a serial killer. Matthew runs a telepathy experiment with Sarah, who sees visions of the killer, and together they try to visualize the murderer.

SOUVISLOSTI :

• Po minulé sezóně made a minor stir on the Internet in 2009 when its nonsensical (but, as it turns out, completely representative) trailer was released on YouTube and other video sites. The piece was so thoroughly anti-cinematic, with its laughable props and the meaningless minutiae of its dialogue, that many people assumed it was a parody of a low-budget indie film created by an established director. The frenzy reached it’s peak when “Entertainment Weekly” published an article repeating rumors that the trailer was a hoax by notorious prankster Spike Jonze intended (somehow) to draw attention to his upcoming film Kde jsou ty divoké věci.
• Po minulé sezóně got a one week release in four U.S. theaters.
• Director Mark Region claimed the film cost $5 million to make. Few believed him.
• After the original run, producer/distributor Index Square stopped offering new DVDs for sale, and actor Jason Kulas said Region has told him there are no plans to produce more.

NEVYMAZATELNÝ OBRAZ : The astoundingly crude computer-generated animation, which often looks like it could have been drawn in MS Paint. The best moment is when a killer’s knife (which looks like an ice cream cone held upside down) emerges from out of a blank wall.

TŘI DIVNÉ VĚCI : Cardboard MRI; Photoshopped telepathy; invisible ghost

CO JE TO DIVNÉ : “Huh?,” “um…,” and “whah?” are all equally valid responses to Po minulé sezóně. This movie may go down as this generation’s Beast of Yucca Flats: stultifyingly dull at times, but so full of misguided directorial choices and failed attempts at cinematic poetry that it takes on a dreamlike character. Watching Po minulé sezóně is like trying to follow a old-timey radio serial on an AM station with fading reception: you can tell there’s a voice trying to make itself heard, but the transmission is so garbled that the basics of the story become lost in static and long stretches of dead air. It’s difficult watching, for sure—thus the “beware” rating—but for intrepid curiosity seekers looking to experience the weirdest of the worst, it’s a must see.

Originální trailer pro Po minulé sezóně

KOMENTÁŘE : There’s a concept in cinema theory called “film grammar;” it refers to sets of filmmaking conventions that have been Continue reading 212. AFTER LAST SEASON (2009) →

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PŘÍMO : Mark Region

FUNKCE : Jason Kulas, Peggy McClellan

SPIKNUTÍ : Although it’s fairly incoherent, the core of the story involves two medical students working on a project and a serial killer who is stalking the area; telepathy and ghosts also play significant roles, and clunky “special effects” are added courtesy of primitive CAD software.

PROČ BY MOHLO VYTVOŘIT SEZNAM : “Huh?,” “um…,” and “whah?” are all equally valid responses to Po minulé sezóně. This movie may go down as this generation’s Beast of Yucca Flats: stultifyingly dull at times, but so full of misguided directorial choices and failed attempts at cinematic poetry that it takes on a dreamlike character. Watching Po minulé sezóně is like trying to follow a old timey radio monologue on an AM radio station with fading reception: you can tell there’s a voice trying to make itself heard, but the transmission is so garbled that the basics of the story become lost in static and long stretches of dead air. It’s difficult watching, for sure—thus the “beware” rating—but for intrepid curiosity seekers looking to experience the worst of the worst, it’s a must see. It has potential to become a Pokoj-like cult item. Time will tell if Po minulé sezóně gains enough of a following that its devotees storm 366 Industries World Headquarters and take the staff hostage, demanding this anti-masterpiece take its rightful place on the List.

KOMENTÁŘE : There’s a concept in cinema theory called “film grammar;” it refers to sets of filmmaking conventions that have been proven over time to work to tell a story to an audience in a coherent fashion. A director breaks these “grammatical rules” at the risk of confusing and losing his audience. Here’s a very simple example of a “grammatical” movie “sentence”: a two way conversation starts with a shot of the character who’s speaking, cuts to a reaction shot of the party who’s listening, then cuts back to allow the speaker to finish his thought. In Po minulé sezóně director Mark Region consistently exhibits atrocious film grammar: he will have his speaker deliver a line and then pause awkwardly, then cut to a shot of the listener Continue reading LIST CANDIDATE: AFTER LAST SEASON (2009) →

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Filmy o telepatovi

Street Date: July 15 th 2014

Technical Specifications: 1080P Video, Color, 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

Délka: 103 minut

Scanners (The Criterion Collection)

Film:

As a life-long Horror and Science Fiction aficionado, I felt like I hit the gold mine when I came across David Cronenberg’s work for the first time when I saw Fly (1986) as a pre-teen. The Director’s insanely gory vision of the dark side of technology, as well as his reliance on a solid story and realistic characters, made me seek out his work in a frenzied pre-pubescent panic. Soon I would watch Videodrome (1983), which would become one of my all-time Top 10 films. But it was Scanners, a film that as far as I knew was about exploding heads, which really captured my interest at the time. What a concept! We’ve all had a bully or tormentor of some kind that we only wished we could unleash the same sort of telepathic revenge on. The concept had been done before in films like Carrie (1976) a Fury (1978), but Cronenberg brought a polished level of sadism to his take, and a cinematic Horror classic was born.

In Skenery, Stephen Lack stars as Cameron Vale, a telepathic vagrant known as a “Scanner”, who is completely unaware of the full extent of his powers. “Scanners” can telepathically link themselves to others’ nervous systems, allowing them access to their thoughts, heart rate, brain waves, you name it. Following a disturbance in a mall food court, Cameron is captured by government agents and placed into the care of Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan), a research specialist with ConSec. When one of ConSec’s scanners is attacked by the dangerous rogue scanner Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside), the company turns to Dr. Ruth for a solution. Dr. Ruth begins to train Cameron to not only control his “scanning” capabilities with an experimental drug called Ephemerol, but also to hone his dangerous skills in order to defeat Revok once and for all. Skenery is one of those films that I would hate to spoil for those who haven’t seen it, so I’ll leave my plot synopsis at that.

Probíhá revize Skenery on this brand new Blu-Ray edition from The Criterion Collection was both delightful and eye-opening in that I continue to appreciate the film as a unique and strong effort from Cronenberg, but I’m also willing to admit that the film is quite dated in 2014. Perhaps it’s just that I’ve seen so many various telepathic movies since I first viewed Skenery as a pre-teen, and I’m able to recognize its strengths and shortcomings by comparison. Skenery still benefits from fine execution on behalf of the filmmakers, with brilliant special effects that are still very effective and engaging performances from a talented cast. What does it lack? Well the ending for one, though the effects are impressive, is a bit anti-climactic and “small scale” for a film that promises it’s viewers an all-out telepathic battle of epic proportions. It’s rather short and confined to one space.

Though it may sound like I’m being too hard on a legitimate cult classic, there were just a few things I noticed this time around that somehow evaded me over the years. Believe me when I say that I wouldn’t own four separate versions of the film on home video if I didn’t adore it, even with a few shortcomings. Skenery remains an exciting cinematic tale of social paranoia and telepathic chaos that will delight fans of the genre.

Video Quality:

Mind=blown. I’ve owned many different versions of Skenery on home video throughout the years, from Laserdisc to VHS and DVD, and this latest Blu-Ray edition features a transfer that blows them all away. Restored digitally from a 2K scan, the fine object detail is outstanding, revealing facial features and small clothing textures that one would have never noticed on previous formats. The colors look superb and accurate to the time period in which it was filmed, retaining the somewhat washed-out look of the theatrical print. This is a very clean print to boot, with very minimal (if any) anomalies or artifacts to report. Beautiful doesn’t quite capture it; this is one of the better restorations I’ve seen in 2014.

Kvalita zvuku:

The HD Mono track presented here may lack the power of a multi-channel effort, never quite enveloping you in the cinematic realm, but dialogue always comes through clean and clear and background sound design is captured with somewhat dynamic results (given the limitations). It’s a little front heavy and obviously lacks range, but it gets the job done.

Speciální vlastnosti:

The Criterion Collection has provided fans of Skenery with their usual Collector’s Edition treatment, loading this Blu-Ray release with tons of great features. Here’s a breakdown of what’s included:

• The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in Skenery– This great featurette lasts over 20 minutes and delves into the creative process involved in the special effects wizardry behind the film. Featuring several of the crew that worked on the makeup and practical effects, these extended interviews offer some fascinating insight the work that these magical people do on a daily basis.
• Mental Saboteur- How can one not love Michael Ironside? He’s one of my personal favorite villains and character actors of the 80’s and 90’s, and this nearly 20 minute interview is fascinating. Michael delves into all things Scanners including his respect for David Cronenberg, comparing paychecks with his fellow cast mates, the special effects wizardry behind the exploding head sequence, his other work following his move to America from Canada, and much more. I absolutely loved hearing from the man himself about his career. He’s very down-to-earth and honest about life and the living he chose to pursue.
• The Ephemerol Diaries— This featurette was produced in 2012 and features a roughly 14 minute extended interview with actor Stephen Lack discussing his work on Scanners and other films as well as his contribution to the visual arts. I especially enjoyed hearing him discuss Patrick McGoohan’s daily frustrations on the set relating to the screenplay and focus of the film.
• The Bob McLean Show- Taken from a March 1981 episode of the show and running about 11 minutes, Bob McLean sits down with Director David Cronenberg to discuss Skenery and his seven previous films at the time including: Stereo, Rabid, The Brood, and other cult gems.
• Stereo- On a disc packed with great special features, this is the standout gem of the set! Stereo is David Cronenberg’s first feature film from 1969 and truly acts as a prequel to Skenery in some ways, as it involves telepathy and medical experimentation. Presented in High Definition black and white, the film looks splendid on the format. The feature running time is 65 minutes.
• Radio Spots- Roughly 1 ½ minutes of radio spots that aired during the theatrical campaign for Skenery.
• Trailer- The original theatrical trailer for the film runs over 2 minutes and gives viewers a fairly good idea of what they’re in for by presenting an edited version of the exploding head scene. The video quality is understandably not up to par, but it adds to the nostalgic atmosphere.

Balení:

This Blu-Ray edition from The Criterion Collection features some brilliant new artwork on the cover, with Michael Ironside in the midst of combustion. Hardcore fans of the film have been a little mixed on this artwork, but I personally dig it. On the reverse of the slip-box you’ll find a plot synopsis, a listing of special features, and technical specifications. Inside the case is a digi-pack with more beautiful art which contains the Blu-Ray disc, and two separate DVD discs for the film and special features. There is a booklet with an essay by Kim Newman entitled Mind Over Matter, as well as some more in-depth technical information on the video transfer and production notes. This is a slick and modern looking set with a design that Cronenberg fans will adore.

Scanners (booklet + discs)

Konečná zpráva:

Zatímco Skenery hasn’t necessarily aged as well as other films from the Cronenberg catalog, it remains a well-executed science fiction horror hybrid that balances terror and high-drama in equal measure. The director’s later films would delve more deeply into the bizarre extremities of humanity, but Scanners is a solid and exciting effort with fine performances from the cast and incredibly fun special effects that solidifies its well-deserved rank among the genre films of the 1980’s. This long awaited Blu-Ray edition from The Criterion Collection delivers the goods on picture and audio quality, and provides a fascinating array of special features (including Cronenberg’s first film Stereo) that will delight fans of the film. This Criterion Collection edition comes recommended, especially with the top-notch video/audio and fully-loaded bonus features.

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