Scanners (1981)

R01/14/1981Science Fiction, Horror1h 43m
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10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.

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, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jennifer O'Neill

    Kim Obrist

  2. Cast 1

    Stephen Lack

    Cameron Vale

  3. Cast 1

    Patrick McGoohan

    Dr. Paul Ruth

  4. Cast 1

    Lawrence Dane

    Braedon Keller

  5. Cast 1

    Michael Ironside

    Darryl Revok

  6. Cast 1

    Robert A. Silverman

    Benjamin Pierce

  7. Lee Broker

    Security One

  8. Mavor Moore

    Trevellyan

  9. Adam Ludwig

    Arno Crostic

When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world! A few years later and "Vale" (Stephen Lack) is minesweeping from a burger joint in a mall when an altercation with two judgemental women results in an escalator chase throughout ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$4,100,000.00

Revenue $14,225,876.00

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