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Scanners

  • 6.7/10IMDb
  • 69%Rotten Tomatoes
  • 64%Audience
  • 60Metacritic
  • 6.9/10MC Users
  • 67%Trakt
  • 3.5/5Letterboxd
  • 2.0/4Roger Ebert
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10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.

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.

Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$4.1M
Box Office
$14.23M

Media

Official Trailer

User Reviews

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf7/10

When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world! A few years later and "Vale" (Stephen Lack) is minesweeping from a burger joint in a mall when an altercation with two judgemental women results in an escalator chase…

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What is Scanners about?

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.

Who stars in Scanners?

The movie stars Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and more.

When was Scanners released?

Scanners was released in 1981 and is streaming free on FlixWow.

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