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Rated
R
Runtime 103 min
Ratings
67% TMDB
69% critics Rotten Tomatoes
64% audience Rotten Tomatoes
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Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release 01/14/81
Actors Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
Directors David Cronenberg
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.
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release 01/14/81
Actors Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
Directors David Cronenberg
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.