Cronenberg in transition: Scanners (1981)
With Scanners, his occasionally gory telepath thriller, David Cronenberg made a significant move from low-budget horror towards the […]
Review: Scanners (1981)
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside,
Jennifer O'Neill
Stephen Lack
Patrick McGoohan
Lawrence Dane
Michael Ironside
Plot: 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.
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