Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Special features: The "Scanners" way, new documentary on the film's special effects, featuring interviews with Cronenberg's collaborators; Mental saboteur, a new interview with actor Michael Ironside; The Ephemerol diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack; Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC's "The Bob McLean show"; trailer and radio spots. Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside.
Summary:
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, and that some of the other ₁scanners₂ have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
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