Scanners

Movie
TitleScanners
User score

6.7

Release dateJan 14, 1981
GenreScience Fiction, Horror
DirectorDavid Cronenberg
Production countryCanada
Production companiesFilmplan International, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Montreal Trust Company of Canada
Budget$4,100,000
Revenue$14,225,876
Run time103 min.

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, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

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Scanners (1981) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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