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Scanners [DVD] [1981]

DVD ~ Stephen Lack

5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Actors: Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside
Directors: David Cronenberg
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 18
Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 18 Jul 2005
Run Time: 99 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B0009S9LQM
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48,330 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, exercises the benefits of his special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. But a group of renegade scanners, led by the nefarious Revok, plans to create a race of telepathic ubermenschen who will rule the world. Vale must team up with a like-minded female scanner in order to thwart the plans of the fiendish gang. The protracted end game between Revok and Vale is heightened by a dark secret which is shockingly revealed just before their duel begins.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Scanners - Exploration of gifts as a curse, 28 Aug 2006

By	M. J. Siddiq (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Scanners are humans who can interact with another nervous system, in the film principally human beings. They can read thoughts and remotely effect the person they are scanning.

I watched this film when it was released and the impact for me then as it is now is the sub-theme of the ability to scan as being a curse. I remember that the attraction at the time was the special effects but the study of the burden of being a scanner within the film lifts it above pulp horror/sci-fi. The opening scene where the main character is tormented by unconsciously reading what two strangers are thinking about him and the troubled artist who keeps himself sane by putting the voices into his art are some of the most memorable scenes in the film. Michael Ironside is excellent as the villian. Patrick McGoohan (Danger man and the Prisoner) is on top class form. The film is really well crafted in that there really aren't any superfluous scenes. A good tight well-scripted film. It could possibly have been made a bit longer but any extra scene would have just been padding. Excellent.

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