Scanners
“10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.”
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.
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Studio
Filmplan International
Language
en
Status
Released
How Scanners performed
Budget
$4.1M
Worldwide Gross
$14.2M
Gross Profit
$10.1M
Return
3.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~34/66, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (37% of the domestic run, typical for Science Fiction) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Cameron Vale
Stephen Lack
Cameron Vale
Kim Obrist
Jennifer O'Neill
Kim Obrist
Darryl Revok
Michael Ironside
Darryl Revok
Dr. Paul Ruth
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Paul Ruth
Braedon Keller
Lawrence Dane
Braedon Keller
Benjamin Pierce
Robert A. Silverman
Benjamin Pierce
Security One
Lee Broker
Security One
Trevellyan
Mavor Moore
Trevellyan
Arno Crostic
Adam Ludwig
Arno Crostic
Programmer 1
Murray Cruchley
Programmer 1
Dieter Tautz
Fred Döderlein
Dieter Tautz
Killer in Record Store
Géza Kovács
Killer in Record Store
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