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Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane 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 to mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic. It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to graphically explode.
After Cameron Vale, a vagrant suffering from voices manifesting in his head, causes a rude woman to have a seizure with his telepathic abilities, he is captured and brought to Dr. Paul Ruth, who explains that Vale is one of 237 super-powered individuals known as scanners who are capable of psychic powers. He then injects Vale with a drug, ephemerol, which restores his sanity by temporarily inhibiting his scanning abilities, and teaches him to control his powers.
Darryl Revok, a powerful scanner, is a former mental patient who was driven insane from hearing uncontrollable streams of thoughts. At a marketing event for the private military company ConSec, Revok volunteers in a demonstration about scanning, but he explodes the head of the ConSec scanner. He seeks to convince other scanners to help him in his quest for domination, and to kill opposing scanners. ConSec's new security head Braedon Keller advocates shutting down the company's scanner research program, especially since it has no scanners after the tragic incident. Dr. Ruth disagrees with Keller, believing that scanners are the next stage of human evolution. Dr. Ruth argues that the assassination demonstrates how dangerous Revok is. Ruth convinces Vale to help infiltrate Revok's group.
Unknown to Ruth, Keller is working for Revok and informs him of Ruth's infiltration plan. Revok dispatches assassins to follow Vale as he visits an unaffiliated scanner, Benjamin Pierce, a successful yet reclusive sculptor who copes with his abilities through his art. Revok's assassins murder Pierce, but Vale defeats the assassins with his powers and reads Pierce's dying thoughts, learning of another group of scanners, led by Kim Obrist, who oppose Revok's group. Vale tracks down Obrist and attends a meeting, but Revok's assassins strike again; only Vale and Obrist survive.
Vale learns of a pharmaceutical company, Biocarbon Amalgamate. He discovers it manufactures ephemerol and that Revok is distributing the drug utilizing a computerized ConSec plan, codenamed Ripe. He and Obrist go to ConSec to investigate, where Ruth admits that he founded Biocarbon Amalgamate but has no direct connection to it anymore and claims no knowledge of Revok's involvement there. He encourages Vale to cyberpathically scan the computer system to find out more.
Keller kills Ruth, while Vale and Obrist escape. Vale cyberpathically hacks into the computer network using a telephone booth and downloads ephemerol shipment information directly into his mind. Keller is killed when the computer explodes during his attempt to intercept Vale. Vale and Obrist visit Dr. Frame, someone who is receiving the drug. Obrist encounters a pregnant woman and realizes the woman's fetus has scanned her. Vale confronts Dr. Frame and learns that Revok's plan is to prescribe ephemerol to pregnant women, turning their children into scanners. Revok's group captures Vale and Obrist and take them to the Biocarbon Amalgamate plant.
Revok reveals to Vale that they are both sons of Dr. Ruth, who developed ephemerol as a sedative for pregnant women. Ruth learned about the drug's side effect during his wife's pregnancies, and he made them the most powerful scanners in the world by administering a prototype dosage prior to abandoning them. Revok plans to create and lead a new generation of scanners to take over the world, but Vale refuses to join him. Vale accuses Revok of acting like his father, which enrages Revok. The brothers engage in a telepathic duel, which incinerates Vale's body. However, when Obrist encounters Revok, she discovers that Vale somehow has managed to take over Revok's body during the duel.
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Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane 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 to mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic. It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to graphically explode.
After Cameron Vale, a vagrant suffering from voices manifesting in his head, causes a rude woman to have a seizure with his telepathic abilities, he is captured and brought to Dr. Paul Ruth, who explains that Vale is one of 237 super-powered individuals known as scanners who are capable of psychic powers. He then injects Vale with a drug, ephemerol, which restores his sanity by temporarily inhibiting his scanning abilities, and teaches him to control his powers.
Darryl Revok, a powerful scanner, is a former mental patient who was driven insane from hearing uncontrollable streams of thoughts. At a marketing event for the private military company ConSec, Revok volunteers in a demonstration about scanning, but he explodes the head of the ConSec scanner. He seeks to convince other scanners to help him in his quest for domination, and to kill opposing scanners. ConSec's new security head Braedon Keller advocates shutting down the company's scanner research program, especially since it has no scanners after the tragic incident. Dr. Ruth disagrees with Keller, believing that scanners are the next stage of human evolution. Dr. Ruth argues that the assassination demonstrates how dangerous Revok is. Ruth convinces Vale to help infiltrate Revok's group.
Unknown to Ruth, Keller is working for Revok and informs him of Ruth's infiltration plan. Revok dispatches assassins to follow Vale as he visits an unaffiliated scanner, Benjamin Pierce, a successful yet reclusive sculptor who copes with his abilities through his art. Revok's assassins murder Pierce, but Vale defeats the assassins with his powers and reads Pierce's dying thoughts, learning of another group of scanners, led by Kim Obrist, who oppose Revok's group. Vale tracks down Obrist and attends a meeting, but Revok's assassins strike again; only Vale and Obrist survive.
Vale learns of a pharmaceutical company, Biocarbon Amalgamate. He discovers it manufactures ephemerol and that Revok is distributing the drug utilizing a computerized ConSec plan, codenamed Ripe. He and Obrist go to ConSec to investigate, where Ruth admits that he founded Biocarbon Amalgamate but has no direct connection to it anymore and claims no knowledge of Revok's involvement there. He encourages Vale to cyberpathically scan the computer system to find out more.
Keller kills Ruth, while Vale and Obrist escape. Vale cyberpathically hacks into the computer network using a telephone booth and downloads ephemerol shipment information directly into his mind. Keller is killed when the computer explodes during his attempt to intercept Vale. Vale and Obrist visit Dr. Frame, someone who is receiving the drug. Obrist encounters a pregnant woman and realizes the woman's fetus has scanned her. Vale confronts Dr. Frame and learns that Revok's plan is to prescribe ephemerol to pregnant women, turning their children into scanners. Revok's group captures Vale and Obrist and take them to the Biocarbon Amalgamate plant.
Revok reveals to Vale that they are both sons of Dr. Ruth, who developed ephemerol as a sedative for pregnant women. Ruth learned about the drug's side effect during his wife's pregnancies, and he made them the most powerful scanners in the world by administering a prototype dosage prior to abandoning them. Revok plans to create and lead a new generation of scanners to take over the world, but Vale refuses to join him. Vale accuses Revok of acting like his father, which enrages Revok. The brothers engage in a telepathic duel, which incinerates Vale's body. However, when Obrist encounters Revok, she discovers that Vale somehow has managed to take over Revok's body during the duel.