Scanners (1981)
With Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside, Heiner Lauterbach, Niels Clausnitzer, Manfred Schott, Lawrence Dane
Directed by David Cronenberg
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
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