This is definitely my vote for the worst Cronenberg movie (I still haven't watched Cosmopolis), but I'll still be buying this immediately! It's still quite entertaining and has a couple makeup effects that are rightfully legendary. It might line up with the Barnes and Noble sale, too. I will be especially curious to see that Michael Ironside interview. I distinctly recall an interview with him in Premiere magazine years ago where he was asked about Scanners and told a short story about how Cronenberg was always coming to set and talking about really disgusting dreams he'd had the night before, and how everyone on set quickly learned to make themselves scarce whenever they saw him coming! He ended it with something like "you do NOT want to be in that guy's head." I've never heard any comments like that about Cronenberg from any other actor in the years since, I wonder if Ironside will still be so blunt about his disgust for him, haha.
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