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Scanners 1981

David Cronenberg

Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside

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Aaron Jones almost 3 years ago

Raw 80s horror. Aesthetic and amazing effects make up for "on-the-go" script.

Christophe Cheval 5 years ago

bleuh

Robert Stuart over 5 years ago

Exploding head.

Peter Renshaw 6 years ago

I want you to access the Ripe program. I do not have ConSec computer clearance.

Austin over 6 years ago

Shot composition and special effects are astounding. Everything else, much less so.

Tim Jules Hull almost 8 years ago

When special effects were "special" and acting was wooden, but stories were paramount.

Chris Majchrzak over 3 years ago

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Timothy Masterson 6 years ago

Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. The film is about a corporation that attempts to use people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities for its own purposes. Scanners are people with powerfully intense telepathic and telekinetic abilities. ConSec, a weaponry and security systems company, captures a homeless scanner named Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) at a shopping mall. Vale has been able to get by using his telepathy to make people eating near him allow him to steal some of their meals. Vale psychically overhears two women talking negatively about him, when suddenly one of them begins to convulse. Without knowing he is responsible for this, Vale attracts the attention of two ConSec agents, who shoot him with a tranquilizer dart and drag him away. He supposedly possesses tremendous scanner power, which ConSec wants to exploit, but he has become a...