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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
1981
103 min
654 Views


Unstable, unreliable.

That is because their unique gifts

are not understood, Mr. Keller.

There's one point about which

there's no doubt at all,

and that is that ConSec was attacked.

For our own peace of mind,

we have to retaliate in some way.

And I think Dr. Ruth's suggestion

is a very interesting one.

Except that... we don't have

any scanners left to send into the field.

As a matter of fact...

I do have one still unaffiliated.

A very special one.

I don't suppose you speak much.

No.

It's not surprising.

With all those other voices in your head,

how can you hear your own voice?

How can you develop a self, a personality?

How do you feel?

I feel... crystal clear.

How do you like it? Clarity.

I'm not sure.

I think I'm a bit afraid.

Why?

I feel so exposed.

I can hear myself.

- You hear your own voice?

- Yes.

- Good.

- You called me a scanner.

What is that?

A freak of nature,

born with a certain form of ESP.

A derangement of the synapses,

which we call telepathy.

It could be a disease, possibly.

Or a result of radiation.

We don't really know why.

Who are you?

My name is Dr. Paul Ruth.

I'm a psycho-pharmacist by trade,

specializing

in the phenomenon of scanners.

The woman in the shopping mall,

what were you doing to her?

I wasn't doing anything to her.

It was her.

She was... forcing me...

'To what?'

'To think about her.'

'The 50 people that were here

appeared to disturb you.

- 'Why was that?'

- 'They talked too loud.

- 'They talked, and they talked...'

- 'Really?

'I didn't see their lips move, did you?'

'No, it was the other voices, the ones

without lips. They were drowning me.'

I couldn't stop them.

The injection I gave you, with the needle,

- what happened to the voices?

- They stopped.

The drug is called Ephemerol.

It's a scanner-suppressant.

It does nothing

when it's given to ordinary human beings.

When given to a scanner,

it prevents the flow of telepathy.

It stops the voices.

- It can help you.

- How do you know these things?

It's my profession.

This is Mr. Keller.

Will my car be ready this evening?

'Tell us what you did, please, Darryl.'

- 'I drilled a hole in my head.'

- 'Where? '

'It's kind of obvious, isn't it? Right here.'

'Why did you do it, Darryl?

Why did you drill the hole?'

'Too much pressure.

'To lessen pressure.'

'You wanted to let the pressure out? You

wanted to let something out of your head?'

'Listen, I can't get anything past you, can I?'

'You wanted to let something

out of your head?'

- 'Uh-huh.'

- 'What?'

'People.

'The people in my head.

They're from the Devil.'

'You mean the voices?'

'No. All people. Arms, legs, hands.'

'What's that you've put over the hole?'

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. Cronenberg is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. His films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash (1996). more…

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