Variety
Scanners offers at least one literally eye-popping moment and another that can only be called mind-blowing.
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Scanners
Classic ‘80s sci-fi horror from David Cronenberg about a small, secret group of beings called Scanners – gifted with pain-inflicting psychic powers and a desire to take over the world. A scientist discovers one of these beings and converts him to wage war against his own kind.
1981Rating: R16, Horror scenes and violence103 minsCanada
HorrorScience Fiction
- Director:
- David Cronenberg ('The Fly', 'eXistenZ', 'Eastern Promises', 'A History of Violence', 'Videodrome')
- Writer:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohanLawrence DaneMichael Ironside
Scanners | Reviews
70%37 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Time Out
Looks less like Cronenberg's popular mid-'70s exploiters than one of his early experimental films remade on a higher budget
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Roger Ebert
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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