Scanners 1981 Watch Free in HD

Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers and a group of them plan to create a race that will rule the world. Then, a scientist sends one of them to hunt others like him.

Genre:

Action, Sci-Fi, Horror

Actors:

Jennifer ONeill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman, Larry Perkins, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Murray Cruchley, Fred Doederlein, ...»

Director:

David Cronenberg

Country:

International

Release:

1981

IMDb:

6.7

Quality:

Duration:

103 min

Time Out

Part conspiracy thriller, part political tract, it is Cronenberg's most coherent movie to date, drawing a dark (but bland) world in which corporate executives engineer human conception to produce ever more powerful mental samurai.

June 24, 2006

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Reel Film Reviews

Scanners, for the most part, is unable to distinguish itself from other similarly-themed horror thrillers...

January 22, 2014

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Q Network Film Desk

an intriguing and (by Cronenberg's standards, at least) fun movie

August 20, 2014

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Variety

All this should give fans of David Cronenberg's previous pix their money's worth, although lack of any rooting interest vitiates any possible suspense and highly elegant visual style works against much shock value.

June 05, 2007

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Film Comment Magazine

Scanners consolidates the ruling problematic of the Cronenberg project from the sex slugs of Shivers to the financial abstractions of Cosmopolis: what are the effects of signals on an organism?

July 07, 2014

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CinePassion

Cronenberg's deadpan techno-thriller lampoon

August 13, 2015

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The Dissolve

The generous selection of bonus features includes vintage elements, like a trailer made up almost entirely of the exploding-head scene, a handful of radio spots, and a 1981 talk-show appearance in which Cronenberg discusses his work up to that point.

July 14, 2014

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Chicago Sun-Times

Scanners is so lockstep that we are basically reduced to watching the special effects, which are good but curiously abstract, because we don't much care about the people they're happening around.

October 23, 2004

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New York Times

The quality of the film's inventiveness is not always of the first order, which is too bad because Mr. Cronenberg does seem to be a director-writer of some style.

August 30, 2004

TV Guide

Ironside is fantastic as the lethal Revok, helping make this a popular cult favorite.

June 05, 2007

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Movie Metropolis

Cronenberg is so great at juxtaposing the surreal with the mundane to generate both creeps and (nervous) laughter.

August 03, 2014

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Chicago Reader

Like Tod Browning, Cronenberg doesn't have the stylistic resources to match the forcefulness of his ideas, but his movies remain in the mind for the pull of their private obsessions.

June 05, 2007

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