Scanners

"10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode."

Jan 14 1981 R 1h 43m

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Plot

Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.

Written by

David Cronenberg

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan

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Canada

Production Companies

Filmplan, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Languages

English

Awards

3 wins & 9 nominations total

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64,269

Average Rating

6.7 out of 10

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