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Scanners
10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.
Rating
4.5 (1)
Release Date
1/14/1981Runtime
103 minsGenres
Overview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$4,100,000Revenue
$14,225,876Homepage
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How It Feels
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A visceral techno-horror that treats psychic powers as both a curse and a weapon, where reality itself becomes unstable under the force of competing wills. Cronenberg's clinical direction turns intimate body horror into philosophy, scanning someone else's mind is as invasive as it is destructive.
Mood
Dread-soakedParanoidTenseUnsettling
Themes
PowerCorruptionIdentityObsession
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrastPractical effects
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceBody horror
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Kim Obrist
Stephen Lack
Cameron Vale
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence Dane
Braedon Keller
Michael Ironside
Darryl Revok
Robert A. Silverman
Benjamin Pierce
Lee Broker
Security One
Mavor Moore
Trevellyan
Adam Ludwig
Arno Crostic
Murray Cruchley
Programmer 1
Fred Döderlein
Dieter Tautz
Géza Kovács
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Reviews
Scanners Collection
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