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Scanners
Horror, Science Fiction
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy grimy body horror and paranoid science-fiction built around psychic violence, conspiratorial institutions, and unsettling practical effects.
- Tone
- eerie, tense, bleak
- Payoff
- scares, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- psychic power, scientific exploitation, social control, rebellion
- Setting
- contemporary, urban laboratories and institutional interiors
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