Ruth learned of this from providing the drug to his wife during her pregnancies. Revok reveals that ephemerol was a tranquilizer developed by Ruth for pregnant women that had the unintended side effect of causing the unborn children to become scanners. The two are ambushed by Revok’s men and abducted. Vale concludes that Ripe’s purpose is to administer ephemerol to pregnant women, making their babies scanners.
They visit a doctor on the list of recipients, where Obrist suddenly discovers she is being scanned by the unborn baby of a pregnant woman. The plan backfires and the computer explodes, killing Keller and leaving Vale and Obrist to investigate the shipments. When Keller discovers this, he orders the computer system destroyed while Vale is plugged into it. Vale accesses the computer network through a telephone and pulls ephemerol shipment information. Keller kills Ruth while Vale and Obrist flee the building. Meanwhile, Keller tries to kill Obrist, but she escapes. Vale and Obrist return to ConSec, where Ruth suggests Vale scan the computer system to learn more about Ripe. He finds that large quantities of ephemerol are being distributed under a program called “Ripe,” run by Revok himself through ConSec. Scanning an assassin, Vale learns of a drug company, which he then infiltrates. Vale attends a meeting, but assassins for Revok strike again, with only Vale and Obrist escaping. Vale tracks down Obrist, who has formed a telepathic alliance with a group of other scanners. Pierce is shot and killed but before he dies, Vale reads from his mind a name – Kim Obrist. With Keller working for him as a spy, Revok learns of Ruth’s plan and dispatches assassins to follow Vale as he begins his search for Revok by visiting a scanner named Benjamin Pierce. Ruth asks for Vale’s help, explaining that he is a scanner and that Revok is killing all scanners who refuse to join him. After bringing Vale into ConSec, Ruth has administered a drug called ephemerol, which temporarily stops his scanning ability. To this point, scanner Cameron Vale has lived an unhappy life as a social outcast, due to his inability to cope with the never-ending stream of other people’s thoughts bombarding his mind and his not even knowing the cause or nature of his condition. He argues that ConSec should recruit scanners to their cause to infiltrate and bring down Revok’s group. Ruth suspects the killer scanner to be Darryl Revok, who Ruth says has his own underground network of scanners in competition with ConSec’s program. Paul Ruth disagrees, explaining that the assassination and escape have shown the weapon’s potential they had hoped to demonstrate. If you slow the film down then you can see the exact moment in which the latex head is added, it’s still a very impressive looking effect none the less.ĬonSec security head Braedon Keller demands all scanner research to cease, but program head Dr. Interestingly, the effect for the infamous exploding head scene was accomplished by filling a latex head of the actor with dog food and rabbit livers, and shooting it from behind with a 12-gauge shotgun.
However, he is able to use his powers to kill the men guarding him and escape. ConSec officials surmise that the volunteer was himself a scanner and initially take him into custody. However, when ConSec’s scanner attempts to read the mind of a volunteer from the invited group, the scanner’s head explodes. Private security firm ConSec plans to showcase potential “scanners”, people with exceptional powers of telekinesis, telepathy, and mind control. Well, I took the time so let’s see if it was worth the wait…. He has been called “the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world.” For me, Scanners was always one of those films that I’d heard a lot about and even seen certain moments but had never actually taken the time to sit down and watch the whole thing. In the space of just five years, Cronenberg gave us Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone and the Sci-Fi/Horror classic, The Fly. In his films, the psychological is intertwined with the physical. This style of filmmaking explores people’s fears of bodily transformation and infection. He is one of the originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. Scanners is a science-fiction horror film from the mind of Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg.
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