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Scanners (1981)

Name: Scanners
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Released: 1981
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Adam Ludwig, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore

★ 6.7 · 1,341 ratings on TMDB

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

★ 6.7

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. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

DirectorDavid Cronenberg

CastAdam Ludwig, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Lee Broker, Mavor Moore, Michael Ironside

GenresHorror, Science Fiction

The emergence reading

Scanners keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceCA

⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose

E8communicationa subset of humans possess innate telepathic ability to read and influence other minds (cognition · personal)

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