Scanners
A FILM BY DAVID CRONENBERG
Fiction — Canada — 1981 — 97 min
Color | English with French and English subtitles | 16:9 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
Darryl Revok is a rogue “scanner” of unparalleled power with an insatiable thirst for control. Leader of an underground association, Revok wages war against the “normals” to claim his prize of world domination – his telekinesis a passive-agressive weapon of the most dangerous and deadly kind. Self-induced “empath” Cameron Vale is on the verge of insanity, struggling to cope with the powers that define his existence. With his propinquity to the subject, Vale is recruited by Dr Paul Ruth and tasked to track Revok down before any more damage is done. With the uncanny ability to read minds and lock into the human nervous system, Revok sets out to prove himself a formidable exponent – literally blowing people’s minds in the process.
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CAST
- Stephen Lack
- Jennifer O’Neill
- Patrick McGoohan
- Lawrence Dane
- Michael Ironside
- Robert A. Silverman
- Mavor Moore
- Larry Perkins
- Adam Ludwig
- Louis Del Grande
CREW
- Direction and screenplay : David Cronenberg
- Production : Claude Héroux (Filmplan International, Canadian Film Development Corporation)
- Direction of photography : Mark Irwin
- Production design : Carol Spier
- Editing : Ronald Sanders
- Sound design : Don Cohen
- Sound recording : Mike Hoogenboom
- Original score : Howard Shore
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1981 *Best Makeup
- Saturn Awards, 1981 *Best International Film
- Fantasporto, 1983 *Best International Film
- Genie Awards, 1982