Scanners (1981)

There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning.

Original Title :	Scanners
Director :	David Cronenberg
Writer :	David Cronenberg
Genre :	Horror
	Sci-Fi
Country :	Canada
Language :	English
Producer :	Pierre David , Claude Héroux , Victor Solnicki
Music :	Howard Shore
Photography :	Mark Irwin
IMDB ID :	0081455
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Scanners (1981) - David Cronenberg

Starring

Jennifer O'Neill		Kim Obrist, Scanner
Stephen Lack		Cameron Vale, Scanner
Patrick McGoohan		Doctor Paul Ruth, Psychopharmacist
Lawrence Dane		Braedon Keller, CONSEC Director of Internal Security
Michael Ironside		Darryl Revok, Scanner Leader/Head of Biocarbon Amalgamte Drug Lab
Robert A. Silverman		Benjamin Pierce, Crazy Scanner Sculptor
Lee Broker		Security One
Mavor Moore		Trevellyan, CONSEC Chairman
Adam Ludwig		Arno Crostic, Art Gallery Owner
Murray Cruchley		Lee, CONSEC Programmer 1
Fred Doederlein		Dieter Tautz, Yoga Master
Géza Kovács		Killer in Record store
Sony Forbes		Killer in Attic
Jérôme Tiberghien		Killer in Attic
Denis Lacroix		Killer in Barn
Elizabeth Mudry		Killer in Barn
Victor Désy		Dr. Gatineau
Louis Del Grande		First Scanner
Anthony Sherwood		Scanner in Attic
Ken Umland		Scanner in Attic
Anne Anglin		Scanner in Attic
Jock Brandis		Scanner in Attic
Jack Messinger		Scanner at Door
Victor Knight		Dr. L. Frane
Karen Fullerton		Pregnant Girl in Frane's Waiting Room
Margaret Gadbois		Woman in Mall
Terrance P. Coady		Security 1 Car Passenger (as Terry Coady
Steve Michaels		Security 1 Car Driver
Malcolm Nelthorpe		Ray, Security 2 Car Driver
Nicholas Kilbertus		Security 2 Car Partner
Don Buchsbaum		Large Man in Mall
Roland Nincheri		Large Man in Mall
Kimberly McKeever		Hallucinating Guard
Robert Boyd		Hallucinating Guard
Graham Batchelor		Yoga Technician
Dean Hagopian		CONSEC Programmer 2
Alex Stevens		CONSEC Programmer 3
Neil Affleck		Medical Student in Mall rest of cast listed alphabetically
Sam Stone		Security Guard (uncredited

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.

Comments

Not as good as a lot of other Cronenberg films, but good enough "Scanners" came somewhat as a dissapointment to me.It started out really well, but after that there were too many slow spots for it to be a great movie.It was still a descent Cronenberg film though, but dont expect anything like "The Fly"(1986), "Videodrome"(1983), or even "eXistenZ"(1999), it must also be mentioned that the acting is sometimes downright awful.Overall, if you like Cronenberg, you might be dissapointed, but it's still an OK film.6 out of 10.