Scanners (1981)

Directed by David Cronenberg · Cinematography by Mark Irwin

R103 min60 frames

Science FictionHorror

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

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