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"This is arguably David Cronenberg’s masterpiece. ", Combustible Celluloid Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It’s uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women: including unsuspecting Claire. In portrayals that won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Award, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose emotional dependency collapses into mind games, madness and murder. David Cronenberg (The Fly) won the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Best Director honors for melding split-screen techniques, body doubles and Iron’s uncanny acting into an eerie, fact-based tale

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* The kids your mother never let you play with. Charismatic painter Steve (Scanners star Stephen Lack) has carved out a reputation as Montréal’s premiere drug connection, trafficking narcotics with a crew of friends and lovers living as a makeshift “family” on the fringes of society. But tensions rise when the police catch wind of their latest shipment, and Steve strikes up a friendship with a university student eager to observe the group’s illicit lifestyle for his graduate thesis. As the walls start to close in, old jealousies and new paranoias surface, and the family scrambles to adapt or perish. Featuring seven songs by acclaimed Leonard Cohen collaborator Lewis Furey, the directorial debut of Allan Moyle (Times Square, Pump Up the Volume, Empire Records) is an innovative drug drama that set the stage for Drugstore Cowboy and other celebrated portraits of addiction. Equal parts Warhol and Cassavetes, the film’s docu-fiction approach earned widespread praise for its urgency and vivid reality, with The Toronto International Film Festival citing it as “one of the best films of the ’70s.” Out of official circulation for decades, THE RUBBER GUN returns in a stunning new restoration from the original camera negatives. Bonus Features: 1. Newly scanned and restored in 2K from the original 16mm A/B negatives by Canadian International Pictures with sound transferred from the answer print 2. New interviews with actor and co-writer Stephen Lack 3. New interview with director Allan Moyle 4. New interview with composer Lewis Furey 5. New interview with co-cinematographer Frank Vitale 6. American Cinematheque Q&A – Post-screening discussion featuring Moyle 7. Fantasia International Film Festival intro and Q&A featuring Lack and Vitale 8. Original theatrical outro song 9. Archival stills gallery 10. Theatrical re-release trailer 11. Booklet featuring a new essay by professor Nathan Holmes and an archival profile by P.M. Massé-Connolly 12. Reversible cover artwork 13. English SDH subtitles Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews The Rubber Gun [Blu-ray] The Rubber Gun

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With SCANNERS, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary and frighteningly destructive telepathic abilities, is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other scanners have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human mind was the Canadian director's breakout hit in the United States. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES -New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director David Cronenberg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray -THE SCANNERS WAY, a new documentary by Michael Lennick on the film s special effects, featuring interviews with Cronenberg's collaborators -MENTAL SABOTEUR a new interview with actor Michael Ironside -THE EMPHEMEROL DIARIES, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack -Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC's THE BOB MCLEAN SHOW -New, restored 2K digital transfer of Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first feature film -Trailer and radio spots -PLUS: An essay by critic Kim Newman