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SCANNERS

1981 CA HMDB
January 14, 1981

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.

Directors

David Cronenberg

Cast

Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Murray Cruchley
Horror Fantascienza

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MC

Marco Castellini

Scanners are mysterious individuals endowed with deadly telepathic powers. Among them, there are two factions, one led by a man named Revok, the other by Vale. Both are sons of Professor Ruth, the inventor of the diabolical discovery that gave birth to the scanners. The two factions will face each other in a fight to the death. The first major success of the visionary David Cronenberg. A film halfway between pure horror and science fiction, with an absolutely original subject, a gripping pace, and enhanced by excellent makeup effects. The film offers a sequence that has become cult for all horror lovers: the scene where a scanner makes a man's head explode (in the literal sense) who boasted of being able to read minds, simply anthology! A must-see.

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