Director David Cronenberg also wrote the 1981 science fiction horror film Scanners. Howard Shore provided the original music. Scanners is about a corporation that attempts to use people who have telekinetic abilities. The film stars Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O’Neill, Lawrence Dane, and Robert A. Silverman. Make-up artist Dick Smith, who also provided the make-up for
The Exorcist, provided the prosthetic make-up effects for the movie. The film’s budget was $3.5 million and grossed over $14 million at the box office. Scanners was David Cronenberg’s most profitable movie at the time. There were plans for a remake to be released in 2008, but it has been pushed back to 2009.
