Film-In-Residence: Scanners (1981)

...surely pleasing to the most ghoulish fancies... provides you with gigantic goose pimples of horror...

Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 4:00pm
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 4:00pm
Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 4:00pm

Film-in-Residence is a series of casual matinee film viewings, accompanied by a self-guided tour of the exhibits at the Velaslavasay Panorama.

 

 EXPERIENCE THE OUTER REACHES OF FUTURE SHOCK

 

 Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1981

Scanners (1981)
By David Cronenberg

Saturdays at 4:00pm
August 16, 23, 30, 2025
Doors open at 3:30pm
Tickets $10 General / $5 VPES

SCANNERS presents a “disturbing world of psychic mutation,” taking us into corporate pharmaceutical boardrooms, the ConSec manufacturing plant and mind-control battles between those born with advanced telepathic abilities.

Scanners. 1981. Canada. Written and Directed by Davide Cronenberg. Starring  Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Robert Silverman. Score composed by Howard Shore. English. Color. Digital Projection. 1 hour 43 minutes. 

 

 

THE LOS ANGELES THEATRICAL DEBUT OF SCANNERS WAS JANUARY 16TH, 1981. 

THE FILM’S THEATRICAL RELEASE WAS ADVERTISED IN THE JANUARY 14TH LA TIMES EDITION.

FILM-IN-RESIDENCE ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE AN LA TIMES SIMULACRUM PRINT COMMEMORATING THE DEBUT.

 


LA TIMES SCANNERS SIMULACRUM PRINT

 

 

 Hollywood Entertainment Limited Edition Scanners T-shirts

with a Mind Melting Digital Download!

$35

in-person $5 discount!

$30

For sale during Scanners screenings on Saturday Aug 23rd & 30th!

A three-color back print with a two-color front print on a high-quality 100% white cotton shirt. Limited quantity and sizes. Printed In Los Angeles, CA.

 

 

This iteration of Film-In-Residence is supported in part by a grant from the Los Angeles Breakfast Club Foundation and the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.