Scanners

David Cronenberg's Scanners is one of cinema's great horror films and features one of the genres most iconic moments. Drifter Cameron Vale is plagued by incessant voices in his head unaware that he is a Scanner, a group of people with extraordinary powers who can not only read minds but literally tear them apart. He is discovered by a scientist aiming to help his kind adapt to society. However an underground movement of Scanners led by the psychotic Derryl Revok have other intentions and the ultimate confrontation of minds awaits. 1980 Avco Embassy Pictures Corp