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Scanners (1981)

Name: Scanners
Director: David Cronenberg
Genre: action film, horror film, science fiction film
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 6.7

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns…

Directed by David Cronenberg · Shot by Mark Irwin · Cut by Ronald Sanders · Music by Howard Shore · Ratio 16:9 · 103 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) with Stephen Lack and Michael Ironside — Serious Feather · 21 min

Elsewhere

More by David Cronenberg

Transfer — 1966
From the Drain — 1967
Stereo — 1969
Crimes of the Future — 1970
The Italian Machine — 1976
Shivers — 1976
Rabid — 1978
The Brood — 1979
Fast Company — 1979
The Dead Zone — 1983
Videodrome — 1983
The Fly — 1986
Dead Ringers — 1988
Naked Lunch — 1991
M. Butterfly — 1993
Crash — 1996
Existenz — 1999
Camera — 2000
Spider — 2002
A History of Violence — 2005
Eastern Promises — 2007
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
A Dangerous Method — 2011
Cosmopolis — 2012
Maps to the Stars — 2014
Crimes of the Future — 2022
The Shrouds — 2024

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