10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode.
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, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Director
David Cronenberg
n/a
Release date
January 14, 1981
Top billed cast
Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside
Production companies
Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Filmplan International, Montreal Trust Company of Canada
Keywords
criterion collection, telepathy, telekinesis, mind control, psychic power, murder, mind reading, paranormal phenomena, scientist, exploding head, drugs
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