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.

Scanners (1981)
  • Rating: (17,095 votes)
  • Taglines:There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. » Their thoughts can kill! »
  • Runtime:103 minutes
  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Country:Canada
  • Actors:
    Kim Obrist
    Jennifer O'Neill
    Cameron Vale
    Stephen Lack
    Dr. Paul Ruth
    Patrick McGoohan
    Braedon Keller
    Lawrence Dane
    Darryl Revok
    Michael Ironside
    Benjamin Pierce (as Robert Silverman)
    Robert A. Silverman
    Security One
    Lee Broker
    Trevellyan
    Mavor Moore
    Arno Crostic
    Adam Ludwig
    Programmer 1 (as Lee Murray)
    Murray Cruchley
  • Genres:Horror, Sci-Fi
  • Producers:
    Pierre David
    executive producer  
    Claude Héroux
    producer (as Claude Heroux) 
    Victor Solnicki
    executive producer  
  • 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. Written by Paul Reynolds <pauljr@innotts.co.uk>
Scanners
  • User's comment:Scanners is one of Cronenberg's early films of worth by tavm

    David Cronenberg is one of the most provocative horror directors ever as one of his early films like Scanners proves. Stephen Lack has just been picked by Dr. Patrick McGoohan to infiltrate a sinister organization of scanners-people of telepathic abilities. Lack is one of them who gets administrated a drug to control his more intense urges. Michael Ironside is the one they're looking for. Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, and Robert Silverman also lend support. See heads explode and veins pop! There's lots of exposition but more than enough gore and action to satisfy any hard core fans out there. Film actually seemed a little short but there's not a wasted minute here. All Cronenberg and horror fans should definitely seek this one out.


  • Quotes: Cameron Vale: I'm one of you. Benjamin Pierce: You're one of me? Benjamin Pierce: You're one of me?
  • Also known as: Scanners (France), Scanners (Portugal - imdb display title), Scanners (Spain - imdb display title), Agyfürkészők (Hungary), Kontrolori (Serbia), Scanners - I nyhta tou tromou (Greece - DVD title), Scanners - I pensieri possono uccidere (Italy - imdb display title), Scanners - Ihre Gedanken können töten (West Germany), Scanners - Sua Mente Pode Destruir (Brazil), Scanners - dödande tanke (Finland - Swedish title), Scanners - tappava ajatus (Finland), Scanners 1 - Sua Mente Pode Destruir (Brazil - video title), Scanners, i nyhta tou megalou tromou (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Scanners: Mentes destructoras (Peru - imdb display title), Skanerzy (Poland - imdb display title), Tarayicilar (Turkey - DVD title, Turkish title), Telépatas, mentes destructoras (Mexico - imdb display title), Telepathy 2000 ( - undefined),

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