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Scanners

6.7R

MovieScience Fiction, Horror19811h 43m

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

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

Directed by
David Cronenberg
Written by
David Cronenberg
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Released
January 14, 1981
Runtime
1h 43m
Status
Released
Language
English
Countries
Canada
Studios
Filmplan International, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Montreal Trust Company of Canada
Budget
$4,100,000
Box office
$14,225,876
  • Stephen LackCameron Vale
  • Jennifer O'NeillKim Obrist
  • Michael IronsideDarryl Revok
  • Patrick McGoohanDr. Paul Ruth
  • Lawrence DaneBraedon Keller
  • Robert A. SilvermanBenjamin Pierce
  • LLee BrokerSecurity One
  • MMavor MooreTrevellyan
  • AAdam LudwigArno Crostic
  • MMurray CruchleyProgrammer 1
  • Fred DöderleinDieter Tautz
  • Géza KovácsKiller in Record Store
  • Sonny ForbesKiller in Attic
  • JJérôme TiberghienKiller in Attic
  • DDenis LacroixKiller in Barn
  • EElizabeth MudryKiller in Barn
  • VVictor DésyDr. Gatineau
  • Louis Del GrandeFirst Scanner
  • Anthony SherwoodScanner in Attic
  • KKen UmlandScanner in Attic

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  • CinemaSerf★ 7February 8, 2024
    When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world…Read more

    When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world! A few years later and "Vale" (Stephen Lack) is minesweeping from a burger joint in a mall when an altercation with two judgemental women results in an escalator chase throughout the building then a dart in the arm. He awakens to a meeting with "Dr. Ruth" (Patrick McGoohan not Ruth Westheimer) who manages to convince this man that "Revok" is a baddie and that his gang must be infiltrated if he is to be thwarted. "Vale" has a limited understanding of his talents, but armed with the calming drug "Ephemerol" sets off to try and track down his new nemesis. What now ensues follows his increasingly perilous and frequently quite surreal investigations to track down his quarry - and with bodies dropping like flies, he finds his only ally in "Kim" (Jennifer O'Neill) and discovers that there has got to be a leak at the company. The special effects aren't the best here, but it's a decent story with Vale and Ironside delivering quite well as we discover that the real story is nowhere near as simplistic as we'd been led to believe. McGoohan is as hammy as ever and O'Neill, well she never was much good and isn't really here, either. The make-up artists get to have some fun with the quirky denouement and all in all this isn't a bad sci-fi horror film that has a little menace, swipes at large scale pharma and has it's tongue firmly in it's cheek throughout.

Part of a collectionScanners CollectionFilm 1 of 3Also in this collection: Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The TakeoverView the collection

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