Scanners

Science FictionHorror
Overview : After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Budget : 4100000USD
language : en
Runtime : 103 min
Release Date : 1981-01-14
Imdb ID : tt0081455
Status : Released

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill
Kim Obrist

Stephen Lack
Cameron Vale

Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Paul Ruth

Lawrence Dane
Braedon Keller

Michael Ironside
Darryl Revok

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

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. Frane

Karen Fullerton
Pregnant Girl

Margaret Gadbois
Woman in Mall

Terrance P. Coady
Security 1 Car Passenger

Steve Michaels
Security 1 Car Driver

Malcolm Nelthorpe
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
Programmer 2

Alex Stevens
Programmer 3

Neil Affleck
Student

John Brasington
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

Chris Britton
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

Jack Canon
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

Richard Chapman Jr.
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

Leon Herbert
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

William Hope
Hazmat-Suit Worker (uncredited)

Thomas Kovacs
Boyfriend (uncredited)

Michael Maloley
Doctor in Hall (uncredited)

Ian McQue
Scanner / Security Guard (uncredited)

Chuck Shamata
Tony (uncredited)

Sam Stone
Security Guard (uncredited)

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Reviews

Geronimo1967
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 throughout the building then a dart in the arm. He awakens to a meeting with "Dr. Ruth" (Patrick McGoohan not Ruth Westheimer) who manages to convince this man that "Revok" is a baddie and that his gang must be infiltrated if he is to be thwarted. "Vale" has a limited understanding of his talents, but armed with the calming drug "Ephemerol" sets off to try and track down his new nemesis. What now ensues follows his increasingly perilous and frequently quite surreal investigations to track down his quarry - and with bodies dropping like flies, he finds his only ally in "Kim" (Jennifer O'Neill) and discovers that there has got to be a leak at the company. The special effects aren't the best here, but it's a decent story with Vale and Ironside delivering quite well as we discover that the real story is nowhere near as simplistic as we'd been led to believe. McGoohan is as hammy as ever and O'Neill, well she never was much good and isn't really here, either. The make-up artists get to have some fun with the quirky denouement and all in all this isn't a bad sci-fi horror film that has a little menace, swipes at large scale pharma and has it's tongue firmly in it's cheek throughout.