Scanners (1981)

Written by David Cronenberg

Directed by David Cronenberg

Running Time: 105 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1981

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: Canada

Filmed in Colour

Innovative sci-fi horror story about a group of people with the ability to control other people's minds and bodies, with often fatal results. The powers - the result of a thalidomide-like drug given to a group of pregnant women - are being used for evil purposes by a child of the experiment. His brother is recruited by the doctor behind the original project to stop the evil sibling and his fellow scanners.

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Cast

Jennifer O'NeillKim Obrist
Stephen LackCameron Vale
Patrick McGoohanDr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence DaneBraedon Keller
Michael IronsideDarryl Revok
Robert A. SilvermanBenjamin Pierce
Lee BrokerSecurity One
Mavor MooreTrevellyan
Adam LudwigArno Crostic
Murray CruchleyProgrammer
Fred DoederleinDieter Tautz
Géza KovácsKiller in Record Store
Sony ForbesKiller in Attic
Jérôme TiberghienKiller in Attic
Denis LacroixKiller in Barn

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