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Scanners

10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.

1981 · R · 1h 43m

Directed by David Cronenberg

6.7

TMDB audience score
1,456 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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Cast

  • Stephen Lack
    Cameron Vale

  • Jennifer O'Neill
    Kim Obrist

  • Michael Ironside
    Darryl Revok

  • Patrick McGoohan
    Dr. Paul Ruth

  • Lawrence Dane
    Braedon Keller

  • Robert A. Silverman
    Benjamin Pierce

  • Lee Broker
    Security One

  • Mavor Moore
    Trevellyan

  • Adam Ludwig
    Arno Crostic

  • Murray Cruchley
    Programmer 1

  • Fred Döderlein
    Dieter Tautz

  • Géza Kovács
    Killer in Record Store

  • Sonny 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