Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 103 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack and Patrick McGoohan
IMDb score:
6,7 (67.529)
Releasedate: 14 January 1981
Scanners plot
"10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode."
Scanners can check the minds of others. Darryl Revok, a scanner, is the leader of a secret movement and wants to destroy humanity. Doctor Ruth, an employee of a company that disables scanners, has kidnapped Cameron Vale in hopes of persuading him to break into the secret organization.
Actors and actresses
Kim Obrist
Cameron Vale
Dr. Paul Ruth
Braedon Keller
Darryl Revok
Benjamin Pierce
Security One
Trevellyan
Arno Crostic
Programmer 1
Reviews & comments
lars-pixar
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- 1460 messages
- 3984 votes
The strong story is well presented and has quite a few beautiful moments to scare the viewer (especially at that time). Despite the fact that I didn't really like The Fly (from 1986), I had a great time with this Cronenberg film!
3.5*
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scorsese
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- 13332 messages
- 11192 votes
Nice film about a group of people with telepathic abilities who together form a secret collective. A great starting point for a horror film like this and while the plot is entertaining enough, it could have been developed a bit more captivatingly. Reasonably atmospheric and with good special effects and make-up effects.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6154 messages
- 2520 votes
I reviewed this film shortly after The brood, and then I notice that this is all just a bit better : the cast is better across the board, Michael Ironside is perfectly cast with his unfavorable appearance, the "production values" are higher (the artwork of Robert Silverman's character –the artist Benjamin Pierce–, for example, looks impressive), and the FX are sublime, the only downside being the annoying and dated synthesizer music of Howard Shore. Still, this isn't the perfect Cronenberg film yet, as the tight thriller form has somewhat replaced the bleakness and eccentricity of his earlier films - that one famous scene is still impressive, but the telepathic abilities and what you can do with it doesn't get under my skin as much as, for example, the Psycho-Plasmics from The brood.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
Scanner Cop II
1995
Scanner Cop
1994
Scanners III: The Takeover
1992
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Scanners II: The New Order
1991
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