A Scanner Darkly

• 96mins |

Porlock Press film club proudly presents a special 20th anniversary screening of Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly.

In a near-future America, the war on drugs is lost and whole communities have been left ravaged by the effects of a highly addictive hallucinogenic compound called Substance D.

Narcotics agent Fred, posing undercover as a junkie named Bob Arctor, tries to infiltrate the supply chain of a local dealer network with the aim of making a major bust.

After Fred is bizarrely assigned to monitor his own alias, along with fellow addicts Luckman and Barris, the boundary between his two identities fractures and he begins to lose himself down a rabbit-hole of paranoia, deception, addiction and madness.

Based on the hit Sci-Fi novel by Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly uses rotoscope animation techniques (digital tracing over the top of live action footage) to perfectly capture the book’s uncanny, dystopian view of a damaged society.

Featuring an all-star cast including Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson, this is a future classic that demands to be seen on the big screen!

Please note, there will not be any trailers running before the film and it will begin after a brief introduction.