Rating: R
Genre:
Science Fiction
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Gore
Distributor/Studio: MGM
The title of this
David Cronenberg sci-fi horror film refers to a group of people who have telekinetic powers that allow them to read minds and give them the ability to make other people's heads explode. The children of a group of women who took an experimental tranquilizer during their pregnancies, the scanners are now adults and have become outcasts from society. But
Darryl (
Michael Ironside) decides to create an army of scanners to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is his brother
Cameron (
Stephen Lack), who wants to forget that he was ever a scanner. Winner of the International Fantasy Film Award at the
1983 Fantasporto Film Festival,
Scanners was followed by a pair of sequels, neither of which involved
Cronenberg.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide