Cult Classics: Scanners

Psychic powers and corporate dystopia in a Cronenberg body-horror classic

Arc Cinema

8:00PM

$19.50 Full / $16.50 Concession (+$1.50 booking fee)

Fri, Jul 31, 2026

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Cult Classics: Scanners 31 July, 2026

Cult Classics with Venus Mantrap dives into the world of sharp, edgy films and beloved fan favourites.

Each event features a pre-screening live performance by Venus in our beautiful art deco Arc Cinema.

1981 | R18+ | 100 mins | CAN | D: David Cronenberg

Scanners are people with dangerously powerful telepathic powers who have been weaponised by a sinister corporation. When one scanner (Michael Ironside) begins to build an underground army, another scanner, reclusive outsider Cameron (Stephen Lack), is recruited to stop him.

Classic body horror from David Cronenberg presents an elegantly polished series of gory special effects.

‘Scanners offers at least one literally eye-popping moment and another that can only be called mind-blowing.’ – Variety

Our Cult Classics screenings are often interactive and always full of laughs and surprises. Leave your serious side at home and enjoy a movie night with a twist. And probably a shimmy.

Arc Cinema

We are situated in the heart of Canberra on McCoy Circuit, Acton, between the shores of Lake Burley Griffin and the grounds of the Australian National University. Just a 10-minute walk from the city and state bus interchanges.

1 McCoy Circuit, Acton, ACT 2601

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