SCANNERS (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: Horror, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Welcome to the world of the Scanners – a race of humans with telekinetic powers that can wreak havoc beyond your most dreaded nightmare. Writer/director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Naked Lunch) brings the terror closer than ever before – he brings it right into your mind. Cronenberg is a modern-day horror master whose name fits easily with the likes of King, Craven and Carpenter...and Scanners, with its spectacular and shockingly realistic special effects, is a startling masterpiece of the genre. ; ; When a rogue Scanner of unparalleled power (Michael Ironside) wages a bloody war against the 'normals,' young empath Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) is recruited to track him down. But Vale is inexperienced – and a battle with another Scanner could mean a grisly death...or worse. Can Vale vanquish his insanely violent, power-mad adversary? Only one thing is certain: Scanners 'delivers chills-down-your-spine, heart-in-your-throat, you-can't-watch-but-you-daren't-leave goods' (Time)!
• Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Murray Cruchley, Fred Doederlein, Géza Kovács, Sonny Forbes, Jérôme Tiberghien, Denis Lacroix, Elizabeth Mudry, Victor Désy, Louis Del Grande, Anthony Sherwood, Ken Umland, Anne Anglin, Jock Brandis, Jack Messinger, Victor Knight, Karen Fullerton, Margaret Gadbois, Terrance P. Coady, Steve Michaels, Malcolm Nelthorpe, Nicholas Kilbertus, Don Buchsbaum, Roland Nincheri, Kimberly McKeever, Robert Boyd, Graham Batchelor, Dean Hagopian, Alex Stevens, Neil Affleck, John Brasington, Chris Britton, Jack Canon, Richard Chapman Jr., Leon Herbert, William Hope, Thomas Kovacs, Ian McQue, Sam Stone, David Cronenberg
• Director: David Cronenberg
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Filmplan, Victor Solnicki Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, Canadian Film Development Corporation, MGM Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie