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Scanners(Movie, 1981)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 43min | Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
ScannersRating: 3.4/5 (with 536536 votes)
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok. Scanners premiered in January 1981 to lukewarm reviews from critics but became one of the first films produced in Canada to successfully compete with American films at the international box office. It brought Cronenberg and his controversial style of body horror attention from mainst... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Scanners

Saturn Award for Best International Film

About Scanners

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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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Shot in: Montreal, Toronto
Plays in: Canada
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/05/1981 (World premiere: 01/14/1981)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Scanners 1: Sua Mente Pode Destruir"
"Scanners - dödande tanke"
"Tappava ajatus"
"スキャナーズ:1981"
"Mentes destructoras"
"Telépatas, mentes destructoras"
"Scanners: Mentes destructoras"
"Сканнеры"
"İnfilak"
"Tarayıcılar"
"Scanners: Los amos de la muerte"
Budget: 4,100,000 USD
Revenue: 14,225,876 USD (= 347%)

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