Scanners (1981) (RM4k SS 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 Commentary) David Cronenberg Jennifer O Neill Stephen Lack Patrick McGoohan Lawrence Dane Michael Ironside Robert A Silverman Lee Broker Mavor Moore Adam Ludwig Murray Cruchley hq
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Scanners
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.
Scanners (1981), directed by David Cronenberg, Second Sight 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including subtitles in English, French, German, and Spanish.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/
Video encoded in two-pass 16.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Another great 4k remaster from Second Sight here, and a do-over of one of my very early encodes, it's the inimitable Scanners, perhaps the first "mature" Cronenberg film, where his obsessions and themes of body as expression of psyche, identity, faceless corporate and medical hierarchies plotting in the wings, and of course brutal, shocking violence, were well established. The story is fairly slight, but some of the practical effects are unforgettable, and while Stephen Lack's performance has been critized, those of Jennifer O'Neill and Michael Ironside more than make up for it. Also features Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, and Robert A. Silverman.
Cameron Vale is homeless and seemingly suffering from schizophrenia, hearing voices in his head, however, what he's hearing is actually the thoughts of others, and when he causes a woman who insults him in her thoughts to have a seizure, he's chased and captured by two mysterious men, and wakes up restrained in the care of a Dr. Paul Ruth. Ruth tells Vale he's one of 237 known individuals with extensive, highly powerful psychic abilities, and temporarily calms Vale's mind by injecting him with a drug, Ephemerol, which inhibits his powers. At a marketing event for a private security company, Darryl Revok volunteers for a demonstration of psychic powers by one of the company's employees, but turns out to have extremely powerful abilities himself, gleefully making the other man's head explode. Employees of the company apprehend him, but he uses his abilities to deceive them and then kill them, getting away. Dr. Ruth turns out to work for the company, and since they now have no active psychics, he rushedly trains Vale to infiltrate Revok's group, which seeks to take over society. However, people's loyalties are more complicated than they seem, Vale discovers another independent group opposing Revok's, and soon the bodies are piling up and Vale has to go on the run with that group's leader, Kim Obrist.
This is a very nice 4k remaster, excellent color and contrast, good detail, and fairly restrained grain. The 5.1 remaster sounds very good too, the original mono is fine if you prefer it, there's an alternate mono from a previous DVD you might want to check out, and there are plenty of commentary tracks, although two of them are in German with no English subtitles available.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 691 kb/s / 6 channels / 5.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 247 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 265 kb/s / 2 channels / Alternate dual mono mix / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 149 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film scholar William Beard / English
Audio #5 : AAC LC / 166 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by filmmaker & critic Caelum Vatnsdal / English
Audio #6 : AAC LC / 127 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by Dr. Marcus Stiglegger / German
Audio #7 : AAC LC / 175 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film historian Dr. Rolf Giesen and Gerd Naumann / German
Audio #8 : AAC LC / 246 kb/s / 1 channel / Isolated score & effects /
Text #1 : SRT / 38.0 b/s / American English
Text #2 : SRT / 44.0 b/s / American English SDH
Text #3 : SRT / 37.0 b/s / UK English
Text #4 : SRT / 39.0 b/s / UK English SDH
Text #5 : SRT / 41.0 b/s / Canadian French
Text #6 : SRT / 32.0 b/s / Parisian French
Text #7 : SRT / 42.0 b/s / German
Text #8 : SRT / 33.0 b/s / Castilian Spanish
Text #9 : SRT / 37.0 b/s / Latin American Spanish
Text #10 : VobSub / 12.6 kb/s / German for film scholar William Beard commentary
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : "Creatures like that"
00:05:01.468 : Dr. Ruth
00:10:11.861 : ConSec
00:21:50.309 : "Freaks of nature"
00:29:22.636 : Psychic Sparring
00:35:19.117 : "My art keeps me sane"
00:44:52.607 : Group Scan
00:58:10.195 : Biocarbon Amalgamate
01:05:19.916 : The Ripe Program
01:16:41.305 : Self-Destruct
01:28:09.993 : Brotherhood
01:37:15.580 : "We've won"
01:39:10.361 : End Credits
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