Where was Scanners filmed?
1981 horror film directed by David Cronenberg
Scanners (1981) was filmed in Toronto and Montreal — 2 recorded filming locations in Canada. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Montreal
🇨🇦 Canada
largest city in Quebec, Canada
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🏙 Towns & cities
Toronto
🇨🇦 Canada
capital and largest city of the province of Ontario, Canada
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 3 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🛣 Streets & squares
Rue de la Commune
🇨🇦 Canada
thoroughfare in Montreal, Canada
“The sequence of Revok (Michael Ironside) hijacking a car and causing another to crash were shot on Rue de la Commune.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Yorkville
🇨🇦 Canada
neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Additional scenes were filmed in the Yorkville neighborhood.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Yorkdale
🇨🇦 Canada
subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“The only indicators of its location are a scene of Revok and Keller meeting at the Yorkdale station of the Toronto subway and some visible bilingual signs.” Wikipedia
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- The Terminal 2004
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Set in the same places
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More filmed in Canada
Every filming location in Canada →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Scanners have?
2 places recorded on Wikidata, and 3 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across Canada.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
300 (2006), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Life of Pi (2012), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.