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Scanners

"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.

Top Cast

  • Stephen Lack

    Stephen Lack

    Cameron Vale

  • Jennifer O'Neill

    Jennifer O'Neill

    Kim Obrist

  • Michael Ironside

    Michael Ironside

    Darryl Revok

  • Patrick McGoohan

    Patrick McGoohan

    Dr. Paul Ruth

  • Lawrence Dane

    Lawrence Dane

    Braedon Keller

  • Robert A. Silverman

    Robert A. Silverman

    Benjamin Pierce

  • Lee Broker

    Lee Broker

    Security One

  • Mavor Moore

    Mavor Moore

    Trevellyan

  • Adam Ludwig

    Adam Ludwig

    Arno Crostic

Overview

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.

Rating

6.7 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Feb 8, 2024

    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.

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