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Scanners (1981)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 43m
  • 60

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

David Cronenberg

Producer:

Claude Héroux

Release Date:

Feb 14, 1981

Runtime:

1hr 43m

Synopsis

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.

Cast

  • Jennifer O'Neill
  • Stephen Lack
  • Patrick McGoohan
  • Lawrence Dane
  • Michael Ironside
  • Robert A. Silverman
  • Lee Broker
  • Mavor Moore
  • Adam Ludwig
  • Murray Cruchley

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Metacritic

60
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Based on 8 Critics
7.9

USER SCORE (109)

Generally favorable reviews based on 109 Reviews
60

One of the most technically proficient of David Cronenberg's early gnawing, Canadian-made horror movies, though it lacks both the logic and the queasy sexual subtext that made his still earlier work - Rabid, They Came From Within - so memorably revolting.

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Metacritic review by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
50

Scanners is a new horror film made with enough craft and skill that it could have been very good, if it could find a way to make us care about it.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
60

Unfortunately the plot thickens so rapidly and so lumpily that one very soon loses interest in spite of the quite stunning and gory special effects.

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Metacritic review by Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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