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.
- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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Earnest, grave, bleak and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Stephen LackCameron Vale
- Jennifer O'NeillKim Obrist
- Michael IronsideDarryl Revok
- Patrick McGoohanDr. Paul Ruth
- Lawrence DaneBraedon Keller
- Robert A. SilvermanBenjamin Pierce
- Lee BrokerSecurity One
- Mavor MooreTrevellyan
- Adam LudwigArno Crostic
- Murray CruchleyProgrammer 1
Crew
- David CronenbergDirector
- David CronenbergWriter
- Mark IrwinDirector of Photography
- Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
- Ronald SandersEditor
- Claude HérouxProducer
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