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See scanner for references to devices such as image scanners. Historical precedent Scanners can be considered the successors of early telephotography input devices consisting of a rotating drum with a single Photodetector at
For the British post-punk band, see Scanners (band). Scanners are a Post-punk band from London, England formed around 2004
Scanners

Theatrical poster for Scanners
Directed by David Cronenberg
Produced by Claude Héroux
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring Michael Ironside
Jennifer O'Neill
Stephen Lack
Patrick McGoohan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography Mark Irwin
Editing by Ronald Sanders
Distributed by Avco-Embassy Pictures
Release date(s) January 14, 1981
Running time 103 min. David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian Film director and occasional Actor. Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950) is a Canadian method actor. Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Stephen Lack (born 1946 is a Canadian painter and a film Actor best known for his role as the lead character Cameron Vale in David Cronenberg Patrick Joseph McGoohan (born March 19, 1928) is an American born Actor, raised in Ireland and England who rose to fame in the British Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award -winning Canadian Composer Mark Irwin, ASC CSC is a prolific Canadian Cinematographer. He was born 1 August 1950 in Toronto. Ronald Sanders is a film and Television editor and a Television producer. Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Events January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists.
Country Canada
Language English
Budget $3,500,000 (est. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States )
Followed by Scanners II: The New Order
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Scanners is a 1981 action / science fiction / horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Scanners II The New Order is the 1991 sequel to the 1981 feature film Scanners, written by David Cronenberg and directed Events January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. Action movies are a Film genre where action sequences such as fights, Shootouts Stunts Car chases or explosions either take precedence Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian Film director and occasional Actor.

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Plot

Scanners are people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, with a total of 237 of them documented by ConSec, a corporation specializing in weaponry and security systems. Telepathy ( Greek τηλε tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια patheia meaning "to be affected by" describes the purported transfer The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche" meaning mind soul heart or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis" ConSec, in an attempt to exploit their talents, captures 35-year-old Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) at a mall; he supposedly possesses tremendous scanner power, but has become a derelict through inability to cope with the overload of hearing others' thoughts. Stephen Lack (born 1946 is a Canadian painter and a film Actor best known for his role as the lead character Cameron Vale in David Cronenberg Meanwhile, ConSec's last scanner is murdered at a press conference by scanner renegade Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) in the infamous exploding head scene. Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950) is a Canadian method actor. Revok escapes, killing five people in the process.

Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan), the Head of ConSec's Scanner Section, decides to infiltrate the Scanner Underworld by "converting" a scanner (the recently-captured Vale) and sending him to find Revok and report back to ConSec. Patrick Joseph McGoohan (born March 19, 1928) is an American born Actor, raised in Ireland and England who rose to fame in the British A new Head of Security, Braedon Keller (Lawrence Dane) is at the same time welcomed to ConSec. Dr. Ruth tells Vale that scanners can suppress their telepathic powers by injecting themselves with the drug ephemerol, and sends him to find Revok. The only lead is Benjamin Pierce (Robert A. Silverman), a sociopathic artist who tried to kill his family at the age of 10. Robert A Silverman is one of several actors often cast by writer/director David Cronenberg.

After discovering Pierce's address in a gallery exhibiting his morbid sculptures, Vale goes to visit him, finding him living in isolation in the country. While there, Revok, intent on killing all scanners unwilling to join his renegade faction, sends four assassins with shotguns to dispatch Pierce. Pierce is shot, and Vale, from his hiding place, flings the assassins into unconsciousness. As Pierce is dying, Vale scans his mind and obtains information on where to find other scanners.

At the new address, Vale meets Kim Obrist (Jennifer O'Neill) and several other scanners who have adjusted to their powers by forming a mutual telepathic circle. Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Before long, the party is ambushed by Revok's two surviving assassins, who are killed by Obrist. In the ensuing escape, all scanners are killed save for Vale and Obrist, who find out where Revok can be found.

Vale infiltrates Revok's Ripe Program and finds out a large quantity of ephemerol being delivered somewhere. He and Kim go back to ConSec to inform Dr. Ruth. They find out that there's a traitor in the company - Keller - who kills Dr. Ruth by Revok's orders. Vale and Obrist escape by scanning the ConSec guards, and infiltrate Ripe Program through a payphone. In a last attempt to kill Vale, Keller orders a group of scientists to make the program self-destruct as Vale is plugged to it, but the plan backfires, and the laboratory blows up, killing Keller in the explosion.

Vale and Kim visit Dr. Frane, who has been prescribing the drug ephemerol to pregnant women. In the waiting room, Kim is shocked to find that she has been scanned by an unborn baby. As they leave his office, they are ambushed by Revok and shot with anaesthetic darts. When Vale wakes up, he is in Revok's office. He is told by Revok that they are brothers, sons of the late Dr. Ruth, and that scanners were the children of pregnant women, who were prescribed ephemerol as a tranquilizer. Revok reveals his plan to distribute ephemerol and make an army of scanners to take over the world, inviting Vale to join him. He refuses, and they engage in a gory scanner duel, where they mutilate each other through mind control, apparently to the point of mutual destruction.

As Kim wakes up several hours later in the next room, she finds Vale's incinerated body on the floor. Revok is cowering in a corner, hidden under Vale's jacket. He then reveals that he now has Vale's blue eyes (and is missing the characteristic scar between the eyebrows) uttering his last words, "We've won" in Vale's voice. It seems to be implied that during their battle Vale was somehow able to switch minds, leaving Vale inside Revok's body and Revok dead in Vale's now destroyed body.

Cast

Production

The story is structured as a futuristic thriller, involving industrial espionage and intrigue, car chases, conspiracies, and shoot-outs (including a gruesome scanner duel between Vale and Revok at the end). Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Robert A Silverman is one of several actors often cast by writer/director David Cronenberg. James Mavor Moore CC, OBC, BA, DLitt ( March 8 1919 &ndash December 18 2006) was a Canadian The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. It was the nearest thing to a conventional sci-fi thriller Cronenberg had made up to that point, lacking the sexual content of Shivers, Rabid or The Brood; it was also his most profitable film until The Fly six years later. Generally speaking human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings Shivers (filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites; alternate titles The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within Rabid is a 1977 Horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. This article is about the 1979 film For the Professional wrestling stable see The Brood (professional wrestling. The Fly is a 1986 Science fiction / Horror film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg

Because of the oddities of Canada's film financing structures at the time, it was necessary to begin shooting with only two weeks' pre-production work, before the screenplay had been completed. See also Filmmaking Pre-production is the process of preparing all the elements involved in a Film, play, or other Performance. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television As a result, Cronenberg has said, Scanners was a nightmare to make.

Master make-up artist Dick Smith (The Exorcist) provided the spectacular prosthetic make-up effects for the exploding head and the climatic scanner duel. Dick Smith (born Richard Emerson Smith June 26, 1922 in Larchmont New York) is a Make-up artist known for his work on such films as This article is about the novel published in 1971 For information about the 1973 film please see The Exorcist (film.

Cameron Vale and Kim Obrist's children (David Kellum and Julie Vale) are shown in the sequel to this movie.

The use, marketing, and birth defects caused by the fictional drug ephemerol parallel the real-life drug thalidomide. Thalidomide is a Sedative - Hypnotic, and Multiple myeloma Medication. Thalidomide was chiefly sold and prescribed during the late 1950s and early 1960s to pregnant women, and led to severe malformations of children when taken during pregnancy.

References in other media

Sequels

Scanners also has sequels, a series of spinoffs, and a remake is in the works. A sequel is a work in Literature, Film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new Organization or Entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a Television series based on a pre-existing A " remake' " is a term used to described something that has been done again sometimes with better Quality, and usually with more features None of these projects have involved Cronenberg as director.

Sequels

Spinoffs

Remake

As of February 2007, Darren Lynn Bousman (director of Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV) will direct a remake of the film, which will be released by Dimension Films. Darren Lynn Bousman (born January 11 1979 in Overland Park, Kansas) is an American Film director. Saw II is a 2005 Horror film, and the sequel to the 2004 Saw. Saw III is the third installment in the Saw series The film is a joint effort of both Saw's writers/directors James Wan Saw IV is the fourth installment in the ''Saw'' series. The film was initially released on October 25 2007 and in the United States on October 26 2007 Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. David S. Goyer, who wrote Batman Begins, will script the film, and the movie itself was previously planned for an October 17, 2008 release, but has since been delayed. David Samuel Goyer (born December 22 1965) is an American Screenwriter, Film director and Comic book writer Batman Begins is a 2005 American Superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [1]

References

  1. ^ Information from the March 31 entry athttp://plasmapool. 50webs. com/

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Dictionary

scanners

-noun

  1. Plural form of scanner.
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