Scanners (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Scanners are blessed and cursed with extraordinary psychic powers that allow them to manipulate and sense the functions in the bodies of others. This power is involuntary in nature, causing serious problems for those gifted with it. The opportunistic defense firm ConSec has initiated a project to enlist as many of the world's 237 Scanners as possible and manipulate them for ConSec's own ends. One particularly powerful scanner, Darryl Revok, is unwilling to give in to ConSec's advances and intends to start a war against them. In response, ConSec earns the trust of another extremely powerful scanner named Cameron Vale by medicating him to suppress the external voices in head, after which they set him on a collision course with Revok to stop his revolution.

Starring: Lawrence Z. Dane, Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside, Robert Silverman, Lee Murray, Chuck Shamata, Adam Ludwig, Mavor Moore, Robert A. Silverman, Victor Desy, Louis del Grande, Jack Messinger, Victor Knight, Steve Michaels, Malcolm Nelthorpe, Roland Nincheri, Dean Hagopian, Alex Stevens, Neil Affleck, Bob King, Sam Stone, Griffith Brewer, Paul Stewart, Barry Blake, Domenico Fiore

Director: Michael Ironside, Claude Heroux