SCANNERS (1981) [Re-UP]

Cast/Avec
Stephen Lack as Cameron Vale
Michael Ironside as Darryl Revok
Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Paul Ruth, psychopharmacist
Jennifer O'Neill as Kim Obrist
Lawrence Dane as Braedon Keller …

Scanners are people with powerfully intense telepathic and telekinetic abilities. ConSec, a weaponry and security systems company, captures a homeless scanner named Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) at a shopping mall. Vale has been able to get by using his telepathy to make people eating near him allow him to partake of their meals. Vale psychically overhears two women talking negatively about him, when suddenly one of them begins to convulse. Without knowing he is responsible for this, Vale attracts the attention of two ConSec agents. He supposedly possesses tremendous scanner power, which ConSec wants to exploit, but he has become a derelict because he cannot cope with the overload of hearing others' thoughts. Meanwhile, ConSec's last Scanner was brutally murdered at a press conference by Scanner renegade Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside). Revok escapes, killing five people.

Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), un marginal, est repéré et capturé dans un centre commercial par le Docteur Ruth, car il possède un don précieux qu'il doit apprendre à maîtriser : il peut scanner l'esprit des gens, une technique aux conséquences tant psychologiques que physiques. Cameron est alors entraîné par la ConSec, une organisation paragouvernementale, pour lutter contre Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) qui cherche à fédérer les scanners pour imposer leur domination sur les humains dénués de ce pouvoir.