David Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror ‘masterpiece’ is now available on Shudder via Amazon Prime Video just in time for Halloween.
Scanners, released in 1981, follows Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), a man suffering from voices in his head.
He is taken to Dr Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan), who takes him under his wing, informing Vale he is one of a select group of super-powered humans known as scanners, who are capable of telepathy, empathy, biokinesis, technopathy, and psychokinesis.
At the same time, a powerful scanner, Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside), wages war against private military company ConSec and aims to lead scanners in a quest to dominate humankind.
It was the iconic director’s first film to hit number one at the box office, and catapulted his unique and extreme brand of body horror