SCANNERS (1981)

 

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Starring: Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Robert Silverman, Mavor Moore, Anthony Sherwood, Fred Doederlein, Victor Desy, Louis Del Grande, Alex Stevens, William Hope, Christopher Britton, Leon Herbert, Neil Affleck

103 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:

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.

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