“10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.”
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.
David Cronenberg
Claude Héroux
David Cronenberg
Mark Irwin
Howard Shore
Stephen Lack
Cameron Vale
Jennifer O'Neill
Kim Obrist
Michael Ironside
Darryl Revok
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence Dane
Braedon Keller
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
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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 "R...
Scanners (1981) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Trailer • YouTube
SCANNERS WAY CREATING SPECIAL EFFECTS
Behind the Scenes • YouTube
Exploding Brains and Popping Veins STEPHAN DUPUIS
Behind the Scenes • YouTube
Scanners (1981) US trailer
Trailer • YouTube
Mick Garris on Scanners
Featurette • YouTube
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