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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 28, 2001
Budget CAD 4,100,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 43 minutes
Country Canada
Studio Filmplan International
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Other Titles
• Telepathy 2000 (1981)
• Scanners - Ihre Gedanken können töten (1981)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Psychic, Murder, Escape, Cult Classic, Gore, Suspense, Disturbing
Tagline: There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning.
Plot: Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, exercises the benefits of his special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. But a group of renegade scanners, led by the nefarious Revok, plans to create a race of telepathic ubermenschen who will rule the world. Vale must team up with a like-minded female scanner in order to thwart the plans of the fiendish gang. The protracted end game between Revok and Vale is heightened by a dark secret which is shockingly revealed just before their duel
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 One of David Cronenberg's better films. Slow, but interesting and doesn't shy on the gore when necessary. Worth a check. 7/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
Intriguing idea is given plodding treatment making it hard to stay interested. Not nearly as entertaining as most of its sequels.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
Still, it's a classic and it certainly blew people away when it showed up in cinemas in the waning months of the Carter Era.-- (eSplatter.com)
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David Cronenberg
Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The Takeover, Scanner Cop II |
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Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs |
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