Continuity mistake: After the scanner's head explodes, not only is the table clean in the next shot (as already submitted) but Revok himself is as clean as a whistle. He was sat right next to him. (00:12:33)
Scanners (1981)
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Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Lawrence Dane, Stephen Lack
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Scanners is a 1881 Science Fiction/Horror story by David Cronenberg about a telepathic/telekinetic man drawn into an agency to eliminate another who can kill people with this mind. Several Scanners are shot while exploring a connection to an anesthetic drug for pregnant women. Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill and Michael Ironside star.
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Darryl Revok: This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product. The product was a drug, a tranquilizer called 'Ephemerol'. It was aimed at pregnant women. If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America. But the campaign failed and the drug failed, because it had a side effect on the unborn children. An invisible side effect.
Cameron: It created Scanners.
Trivia: Scanners is identified as having the first known media depiction of psychic activity directly or indirectly causing nosebleed. This concept has since become widespread in movies, television, and comic books/graphic novels.
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