---
title: 'Scanners (1981)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Cronenberg'
released: '1981-01-14'
runtime_minutes: 103
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Science Fiction'
  - 'Mystery'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/scanners-1981'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Scanners (1981)

1981 · R · 103 min · Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller · Canada


## Synopsis

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Cronenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-cronenberg)
- **Screenplay:** [David Cronenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-cronenberg)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Shore](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-shore)
- **Producer:** [Pierre David](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-david), [Claude Héroux](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-heroux)
- **Director of Photography:** [Mark Irwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-irwin)
- **Editor:** [Ronald Sanders](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-sanders)

## Cast

- [Fred Döderlein](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-doderlein)
- [Stephen Lack](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-lack)
- [Leon Herbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-herbert)
- [Manfred Schott](https://cinepixo.com/people/manfred-schott)
- [Niels Clausnitzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/niels-clausnitzer)
- [Patrick McGoohan](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-mcgoohan)
- [Jennifer O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/jennifer-o-neill)
- [William Hope](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hope)
- [Heiner Lauterbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/heiner-lauterbach)
- [Michael Ironside](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-ironside)
- [Lawrence Dane](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-dane)

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