Directed by:
David CronenbergScreenplay:
David CronenbergCinematography:
Mark IrwinComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman, Géza Kovács, Fred Doederlein, William Hope (more)VOD (2)
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Drifter Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) is plagued by incessant voices in his head unaware he is a Scanner, a group of people with extraordinary powers who can not only read minds but literally tear them apart. He is discovered by Dr Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan), a scientist aiming to help his kind adapt to society. However an underground movement of Scanners led by psychotic Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) have other intentions and the ultimate confontation of minds awaits. (Second Sight)
(more)Cast
Stephen Lack
Canada
Best movies:
Dead Ringers (1988)
All the Vermeers in New York (1990)
Scanners (1981)
Patrick McGoohan
USA
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Jennifer O'Neill
Brazil
Best movies:
Steel (1979)
The Innocent (1976)
Summer of '42 (1971)
Lawrence Dane
Canada
Best movies:
Running (1979)
Bear Island (1979)
Day One (1989) (TV movie)
Michael Ironside
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Total Recall (1990)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Robert A. Silverman
Canada
Best movies:
The Brood (1979)
Naked Lunch (1991)
eXistenZ (1999)
Géza Kovács
Canada
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Hanussen (1988)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Fred Doederlein
France
Best movies:
Shivers (1975)
Scanners (1981)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
William Hope
Canada
Best movies:
Aliens (1986)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Leon Herbert
Guyana
Best movies:
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Batman (1989)
Alien³ (1992)
Neil Affleck
Canada
Best movies:
Scanners (1981)
Murder by Phone (1982)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Louis Del Grande
USA
Best movies:
Scanners (1981)
Atlantic City (1980)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Anthony Sherwood
Canada
Best movies:
Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV movie)
Race (2016)
Physical Evidence (1989)
Dean Hagopian
Best movies:
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Rocky Marciano (1999) (TV movie)
Thomas Kovacs
Best movies:
Scanners (1981)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Victor Knight
UK
Best movies:
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (2001) (TV movie)
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Scanners (1981)
Victor Désy
Canada
Best movies:
Agnes of God (1985)
Scanners (1981)
Rabid (1977)