Scanners (1981)
10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.
Director: David Cronenberg · Writer: David Cronenberg
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
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Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
Stephen Lack
Cameron Vale 
Jennifer O'Neill
Kim Obrist 
Michael Ironside
Darryl Revok 
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Paul Ruth 
Lawrence Dane
Braedon Keller 
Robert A. Silverman
Benjamin Pierce 
Lee Broker
Security One
Mavor Moore
Trevellyan
Adam Ludwig
Arno Crostic
Murray Cruchley
Programmer 1 
Fred Döderlein
Dieter Tautz 
Géza Kovács
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When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world! A few years later and "Vale" (Stephen Lack) is minesweeping from a burger joint in a mall when an altercation with two judgemental women results in an escalator chase throughout the building then a dart in the arm. He awakens to a meeting with "Dr. Ruth" (Patrick McGoohan not Ruth Westheimer) who manages to convince this man that "Revok" is a baddie and that his gang must be infiltrated if he is to be thwarted. "Vale" has a limited understanding of his talents, but armed wi…
