This is one of the most iconic horror scenes of all time
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True!
I loved scanners from the moment I saw that scene. That was 1981 ā¦ unbelievable! Nobody could see this without being shocked and fascinated.
Also: Michael Ironside!
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Great flick!
My father loved that movie. He would rewind the tape and we would watch it again ( I saw the head explosion many times). And later he would talk a lot about how great that movie was. Maybe Iām impervious to horror films because of all the weird things I watched when I was a kid. 
Itās funny my mother canāt remember my sister and I watched horror films with them. She was some day saying they had never let us watch scary things when we were kids. Canāt she really remember? I watched all sort of horror movies with them. The Exorcist, The Thing, Poltergeist, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Evil Dead, Hellraiser, that series with an evil Jason (Friday 13th? Canāt remember), Invasion of The Body Snatchers (the one with Donald Sutherland), Alien, some scary film or series with mutant killer babies, whatever it was. And these just out the top of my head.
Iām sorry, I forgot this was the āA little music related funā threadā¦
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Letās make it relevant again: we are currently rewatching all āScary Movieā movies. I find those movies often MUCH better than the originals (that says a lot!).
Also, Michael Jackson is in it, you know, the one that did āBillie Jeanāā¦
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This is so funny to me. My mom is the same way. She does not remember exactly how unsupervised I was growing up lol. I first saw The Shining the moment that it hit HBO in the 70s and I was a literal kindergartner. I must have watched that movie a dozen times before I was in first grade 1981. Iām kind of glad though because it really sparked my absolute love for horror. Iām a total super fan, been chasing the dragon with it my whole life lol.
(Edited for terrible memory)
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Another classic! And one of my fatherās favorites. He bought the book too, and I read it. The book was much more scary than the movie, even though the movie and Jack Nicholsonās performance were fabulous.
Iām glad too my parents let me watch all those horror movies (though my mother canāt remember it). Also, my fatherās enthusiasm for the genre made the movies much less scary than they would have been otherwise.
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I am just going to say this as it highlights how funny memory is, which goes to the parents too, because the Shining was made into a movie in 1980 and wouldnāt have made HBO until 81, but you clearly have earlier memories.
Red Rum
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Oohooh shit, thatās what I get for talking smack, I may need to call my mother and apologize 
Still though, Iādāve been 8ish I guess. Now that makes me wonder if it was really my first horror movie or if it was something else 
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hahahaha
Early memories can be peculiar.
I clearly remember when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Not cause I was there with Armstrong personally, but I remember my parents and neighbours gathering around the black&white TV, watching full of excitement, and me standing in the doorway, in total awe, without understanding what was really happening.
I must have been three then, so Iām not sure how real that memory is.
On the other hand, this could have been my first Stanley Kubrick movie, if the rumours are true:
Armstrongsās unforgettabe words when he touched down on the moon makes me wonder about all that: āHereās Johnny!ā 
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An oldie but a goodie. First appearance in this Part 2 edition, though.
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Thatās all been debunked.
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