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Sci-fi movie ads No.19: Scanners
Martin Anderson
Published on Jan 5, 2009
I'm unable to find out who the graphic artist was behind this extraordinary recreation of late-40s/early 50s magazine ad artwork in David Cronenberg's grisly thriller. Ephemerol is the fictional tranquiliser for expectant mothers that turns out to have created a race of telekinetic warriors called 'scanners', and the quality of this ad really 'sells' the idea...
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