According to Deadline, the 1981 David Cronenberg film “Scanners” will now become a television show. Alexandre Aja, the writer-director behind the horror remake “The Hills Have Eyes,” will be the producer behind the Dimension television show. The show, which is about telepathic and telekinetic abilities, will probably be an answer to horror and sci-fi drama shows like AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and TNT’s “Falling Skies.” The film version of “Scanners” is probably best known due to the gruesome head explosion scene. The film’s synopsis follows a group of adults who are known as scanners. These adults are the children of women who took an experiemental drug during their pregnancies, and…

Trailer for the 1981 David Cronenberg classic horror film “SCANNERS”. Synopsis: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. [youtube arOTY6MdYSQ]

Directed By: David Cronenberg Written By: David Cronenberg Score: Technical: 80, Story: 85, Acting: 80, Overall Score: 82% Revok is the most powerful of all scanners and is the leader of the underground scanner movement trying to take control of the world in a conquest for full domination. Scanners have a great gift of a miraculous psychic power, strong enough to control the minds of others being able to inflict enormous pain and damage on their victims. Revok has set out to either recruit or kill all scanner’s he is able to find and come into contact with. But Dr. Ruth finds a scanner that Revok has not been able…