Scanners

Scanners

1981 · 1 hr 43 min · R

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Directors

David Cronenberg

Actors

  • Jennifer O'Neill
  • Stephen Lack
  • Patrick McGoohan

Credits: 3

Summary

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.

More about this movie

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.