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SCANNERS

  • 1981
  • 1 HR, 43 min
  • DEC 2
Details
Released 1981, United States
Horror, Sci-Fi
1 hour, 43 minutes
English
Starring
  • Michael Ironside
  • Jennifer O'Neill
  • Stephen Lack
  • Patrick McGoohan
Director

David Cronenberg

Friends of The Ross 45th Anniversary Series

With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. 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. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human mind was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States.

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Film Stills

Full Cast
Michael Ironside Darryl Revok
Jennifer O'Neill Kim Obrist
Stephen Lack Cameron Vale
Patrick McGoohan Dr. Paul Ruth
Additional Credits
David Cronenberg Director

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