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Scanners is a 1981 action science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, with original music by Howard Shore and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack and Patrick McGoohan and featuring Michael Ironside. The film is about a corporation which attempts to use people with telekinetic abilities for its own purposes

Scanners are people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. ConSec, a weaponry and security systems company, captures Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) at a mall. He supposedly possesses tremendous scanner power, that ConSec wants to exploit, but he has become a derelict because he cannot cope with the overload of hearing others' thoughts. Meanwhile, ConSec's last scanner is murdered at a press conference by scanner renegade Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside). Revok escapes, killing five people.