Storyline
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.
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80
Cronenberg delivers.
80
Variety
Scanners offers at least one literally eye-popping moment and another that can only be called mind-blowing.
75
Scanners is a memorable and absorbing genre entertainment.
63
Boston Globe
The film is more interesting as a phenomenon than as a movie. [27 Feb 1981]
60
Chicago Reader
One of the most technically proficient of David Cronenberg's early gnawing, Canadian-made horror movies, though it lacks both the logic and the queasy sexual subtext that made his still earlier work - "Rabid," "They Came From Within" - so memorably revolting.
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