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Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
Plot
Cameron Vale is a vagrant suffering from voices manifesting in his head. After involuntarily causing a woman to have a seizure with his telepathy, Vale is captured by the private military company ConSec and brought to Dr. Paul Ruth.
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| author | David Cronenberg |
|---|---|
| award | Saturn Award for Best International Film |
| contentLocation | Canada |
| director | David Cronenberg |
| editor | Ronald Sanders |
| genre | action horror science fiction |
| keywords | act biokinesis build capture computer program driven mad hear human evolution kill market meet mental patient new generation private military company psychokinesis recruit seizure suffer technopathy telepathy telephone booth turn |
| musicBy | Howard Shore |
| producer | Claude Héroux |
| productionCompany | Filmplan International |
| publisher | New World-Mutual |
| recordedAt | Montreal Toronto |
| theme | body horror independent science fiction action science fiction horror telekinesis |