Scanners
Sign in to saveScanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
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6.7After 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.
Released: 1981-01-14103 minDir: David CronenbergScience Fiction, Horror
Cast
- Stephen Lack as Cameron Vale
- Jennifer O'Neill as Kim Obrist
- Michael Ironside as Darryl Revok
- Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Paul Ruth
- Lawrence Dane as Braedon Keller
- Robert A. Silverman as Benjamin Pierce
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Scanners
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- Scanners.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- David Cronenberg
- Film.producer
- Claude Héroux
- Film.writer
- David Cronenberg
- Film.music
- Howard Shore
- Film.cinematography
- Mark Irwin
- Film.editing
- Ronald Sanders
- Film.studio
- Filmplan International
- Film.runtime
- 103 minutes
- Film.country
- Canada
- Film.language
- English
Key dates
- Published
- 13 May 1983
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Scanners II: The New Order
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Screenwriter
- David Cronenberg
- Cast member
- Leon Herbert
- Composer
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22 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Financing
- Filming
- Effects
- Release
- Reception
- Box-office
- Critical response
- Accolades
- Soundtrack
- Legacy
- Sequels
- Spin-offs
- Canceled remake
- Television series
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
Scanners premiered in January 1981 to lukewarm reviews from critics but became one of the first films produced in Canada to successfully compete with American films at the international box office. It brought Cronenberg and his controversial style of body horror attention to mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic. It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to graphically explode.