Scanners (1981)
"10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode."
Critics Score
🎬 64%
(RT: 69%, MC: 60) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Stephen Lack as Cameron Vale
Jennifer O'Neill as Kim Obrist
Lawrence Dane as Braedon Keller
Lee Broker as Security One
Mavor Moore as Trevellyan
Is Scanners good?
Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 64%, but audiences disagreed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. Wikipedia ↗
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