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Michael Ironside Remembers Narrowly Escaping the 'Scanners' Head Explosion Scene Unscathed

The eye-popping, brain-raining skull explosion in the early goings of David Cronenberg’s 1981 horror classic Scanners remains one of the most impressively executed movie deaths of all time. To reset the scene: the dome-exploding man, credited as “First Scanner” and played by Canadian actor Louis Del Grande, intends to demonstrate his telepathic powers for a roomful of suits at the private security firm ConSec. He invites a “volunteer” from the audience, who turns out to be a “scanner” himself