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Scanners( 1981)

TV-MAScience FictionHorror
67%
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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

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      Jennifer O'Neill

      Kim Obrist

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      Stephen Lack

      Cameron Vale

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      Patrick McGoohan

      Dr. Paul Ruth

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      Lawrence Dane

      Braedon Keller

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      Michael Ironside

      Darryl Revok

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      Robert A. Silverman

      Benjamin Pierce

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      Lee Broker

      Security One

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      Mavor Moore

      Trevellyan

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      Adam Ludwig

      Arno Crostic

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      Murray Cruchley

      Programmer 1

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      Fred Döderlein

      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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      Elizabeth Mudry

      Killer in Barn

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      Victor Désy

      Dr. Gatineau

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      Louis Del Grande

      First Scanner

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      Anthony Sherwood

      Scanner in Attic

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      Ken Umland

      Scanner in Attic

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      Anne Anglin

      Scanner in Attic

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      Jock Brandis

      Scanner in Attic

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      Jack Messinger

      Scanner at Door

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      Victor Knight

      Dr. Frane

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      Karen Fullerton

      Pregnant Girl

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      Margaret Gadbois

      Woman in Mall

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      Terrance P. Coady

      Security 1 Car Passenger

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      Steve Michaels

      Security 1 Car Driver

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      Malcolm Nelthorpe

      Security 2 Car Driver

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      Nicholas Kilbertus

      Security 2 Car Partner

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      Don Buchsbaum

      Large Man in Mall

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      Roland Nincheri

      Large Man in Mall

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      Kimberly McKeever

      Hallucinating Guard

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      Robert Boyd

      Hallucinating Guard

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      Graham Batchelor

      Yoga Technician

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      Dean Hagopian

      Programmer 2

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      Alex Stevens

      Programmer 3

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      Neil Affleck

      Student

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      John Brasington

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      Chris Britton

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      Jack Canon

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      Richard Chapman Jr.

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      Leon Herbert

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      William Hope

      Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

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      Thomas Kovacs

      Boyfriend (uncredited)

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      Michael Maloley

      Doctor in Hall (uncredited)

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      Ian McQue

      Scanner / Security Guard (uncredited)

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      Chuck Shamata

      Tony (uncredited)

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      Sam Stone

      Security Guard (uncredited)

    Social

    Review 1Discussion

    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Feb 08 2024
    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 t...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    4100000.00

    Revenue

    14225876.00

    Keywords

    • mind control
    • telepathy
    • paranormal phenomena
    • telekinesis
    • murder
    • psychic power
    • mind reading
    • scientist
    • exploding head
    • drugs