Rating: R
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Gore
Distributor/Studio: MGM

The title of this David Cronenberg sci-fi horror film refers to a group of people who have telekinetic powers that allow them to read minds and give them the ability to make other people's heads explode. The children of a group of women who took an experimental tranquilizer during their pregnancies, the scanners are now adults and have become outcasts from society. But Darryl (Michael Ironside) decides to create an army of scanners to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is his brother Cameron (Stephen Lack), who wants to forget that he was ever a scanner. Winner of the International Fantasy Film Award at the 1983 Fantasporto Film Festival, Scanners was followed by a pair of sequels, neither of which involved Cronenberg.

~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Stephen Lack - Vale
Jennifer O'Neill - Kim
Patrick McGoohan - Dr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence Z. Dane - Keller
Chuck Shamata - Gaudi
Michael Ironside - Revok
Adam Ludwig - Crostic
Victor Desy - Dr. Gatineau
Mavor Moore - Trevellyan
Robert A. Silverman - Pierce

Production:
David Cronenberg - Director
Michael Ironside Claude Heroux - Producer
Howard Shore - Composer
Ronald Sanders - Editor
David Cronenberg - Screen Writer
Carol Spier - Art Director
Mark Irwin - Cinematographer
Delphine White - Costume Designer
Pierre David - Executive Producer
Victor Solnicki - Executive Producer
Jim Kaufman - First Assistant Director
Brigitte McCaughry - Makeup
Don Cohen - Sound/Sound Designer
Peter Burgess - Sound/Sound Designer
Chris Walas - Special Effects
Gary Zeller - Special Effects
Henry Pierrig - Special Effects
Dick Smith - Makeup Special Effects

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