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Scanners (1981)
6.7
Ratings: 6.7/10 from 17,921 users
Metascore:
60/100
Reviews: 133 user | 66 critic | 8 from Metacritic.com A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. Director:David CronenbergWriter:David Cronenberg |
103 min - 
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Braedon Keller
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Benjamin Pierce
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Security One
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Mavor Moore | ... |
Trevellyan
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Adam Ludwig | ... |
Arno Crostic
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Programmer 1
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Fred Doederlein | ... |
Dieter Tautz
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Géza Kovács | ... |
Killer in Record Store
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Sonny Forbes | ... |
Killer in Attic
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Jérôme Tiberghien | ... |
Killer in Attic
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Denis Lacroix | ... |
Killer in Barn
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Storyline
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement. Written by Paul Reynolds <pauljr@innotts.co.uk>
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
CanadaLanguage:
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Telepathy 2000 See more »Box Office
Budget:
$CAD4,100,000 (estimated)Gross:
$14,225,876 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Filmplan, Victor Solnicki Productions See more »
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MonoColor:
Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Cameron: It created Scanners.
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Trivia
William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel 'Naked Lunch' contains a chapter concerning "Senders", a hostile organization of telepaths bent on world domination, a clear literary inspiration for this film. See more »Goofs
Crew or equipment visible: When Cameron Vale first visits Kim Obrist, before going up the stairs to meet her, some lighting equipment and the boom microphone is reflected in the glass door as it closes behind him. See more »Quotes
Darryl Revok: This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product. The product was a drug, a tranquilizer called 'Ephemerol'. It was aimed at pregnant women. If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America. But the campaign failed and the drug failed, because it had a side effect on the unborn children. An invisible side effect.Cameron: It created Scanners.
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Crazy Credits
Credits scroll like words on the CONSEC computer monitor. See more »Connections
Referenced in "The Big Bang Theory: The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization (#1.9)" (2008) See more »
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