Scanners (1981) — Screenplay
A telepathic drifter, hunted by a rogue corporation, must master his destructive powers to stop a fellow scanner from enslaving humanity.
- Written by
- David Cronenberg
- Genre
- Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Length
- 97 pages
Cronenberg's clinical horror dissects psychic power as both weapon and disease. Study its masterful world-building, where corporate paranoia and bodily mutation intertwine, and its taut pacing, which builds dread through escalating psychic confrontations and a chillingly ambiguous moral center.
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