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Movie Details

Title

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Original Title

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Genres

Science Fiction, Horror

Tagline

10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.

Release Date

14 January 1981

Overview

After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Director

David Cronenberg

Actors

Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Murray Cruchley, Fred Döderlein, Géza Kovács, Sonny Forbes, Jérôme Tiberghien, Denis Lacroix, Elizabeth Mudry, Victor Désy, Louis Del Grande, Anthony Sherwood, Ken Umland, Anne Anglin, Jock Brandis, Jack Messinger, Victor Knight, Karen Fullerton, Margaret Gadbois, Terrance P. Coady, Steve Michaels, Malcolm Nelthorpe, Nicholas Kilbertus, Don Buchsbaum, Roland Nincheri, Kimberly McKeever, Robert Boyd, Graham Batchelor, Dean Hagopian, Alex Stevens, Neil Affleck, John Brasington, Chris Britton, Jack Canon, Richard Chapman Jr., Leon Herbert, William Hope, Thomas Kovacs, Ian McQue, Chuck Shamata, Sam Stone

Writer

David Cronenberg

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Producer

Claude Héroux

Director of Photography

Mark Irwin

Original Music Composer

Howard Shore

Country

 Canada

Languages

English

Runtime

1 h 43 min

Production

Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Filmplan International, Montreal Trust Company of Canada

Budget

$4,100,000

Certification

R

Revenue

$14,225,876

IMDB

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