Scanners
Summary:
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 ({... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Stephen Lack - (Vale)
Jennifer O'Neill - (Kim)
Patrick McGoohan - (Dr. Paul Ruth)
Lawrence Z. Dane - (Keller)
Chuck Shamata - (Gaudi)
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Review:
Perhaps the best and most characteristic film in David Cronenberg's early career, Scanners has a distinctly bizarre premise: telepathic humans bent on world domination use their powers to blow up other people's heads. The director's earlier efforts are often labeled horror films due to their host of grotesqueries -- the exploding head in Sc... Continue >>
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