The once-proposed theatrical remake of
David Cronenberg's
Scanners is evidently turning into a TV show. The 1981 film most famous for its
exploding head opening (and less famous for Stephen Lack's toneless but oddly appropriate performance) has already spawned a couple of shoddy sequels. So this isn't quite the unwelcome spin-off that, for instance, a sequel to
Videodrome might be.
In fact,
Scanners is the sort of story ...