ALSO KNOWN AS-TELEPATHY 2000
TAG LINE-THERE ARE 4 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH. 237 ARE SCANNERS. THEY HAVE THE MOST TERRIFYING POWERS EVER CREATED...AND THEY ARE WINNING.
STUDIO-MGM
RATED-R (SOME GORE EFFECTS AND CUSSING)
YEAR-1981
CAMERON VALE-(Stephen Lack) A powerful scanner that can't
remember where he came from. A good guy.
DR. PAUL RUTH-(Patrick McGoohan) A guy trying to get Cameron to work for the ConSec company.
DARRYL REVOK-(Michael Ironside) A powerful scanner that wants to rule the world with a scanner army. One bad dude.
KIM ORBIST-(Jennifer O'Neill) Another good scanner. Has a group of good scanners but most of em get wasted.
BRAEDON KELLER-(Lawrence Dane) ConSec security director and secretly on Revoks payroll.
DR. PAUL RUTH-(Patrick McGoohan) A guy trying to get Cameron to work for the ConSec company.
DARRYL REVOK-(Michael Ironside) A powerful scanner that wants to rule the world with a scanner army. One bad dude.
KIM ORBIST-(Jennifer O'Neill) Another good scanner. Has a group of good scanners but most of em get wasted.
BRAEDON KELLER-(Lawrence Dane) ConSec security director and secretly on Revoks payroll.
Cameron Vale is a homeless man who can hear people's thoughts,
and attack their minds. Cameron is captured by a man named Dr. Paul Ruth
and is given ephemerol to calm his powers. We soon find out that he
is a scanner and that he is needed to go after another scanner named Darryl
Revok. Revok is attempting to join all the scanners together to fight in a
war against normal humans. Any scanners that do not join Revok are killed.
Dr. Ruth works for ConSec, a company that is trying to harness the power of the scanners for the good of mankind. After training Cameron in how to control his powers Dr. Ruth sends him out to find Revok. Cameron eventually finds a group of good scanners in hiding but all but Kim are wasted by Revok's goons. Cameron gets a vial of Ephemerol that was manufactured by another company called Biocarbon Amalgamate. Cameron Infiltrates the Biocarbon Amalgamate and finds out that they are related to ConSec and that a Computer Program called RIPE will blow the lid off the whole thing. Mind melding with a computer through a phone line, Cameron gets a list of Doctors using Ephemerol to make more scanners for Revok's army (I wonder what Cameron's baud rate is?). Keller orders the computer operators to self destruct the computer in order to keep the info safe but is killed when they actually blow it.
After talking to one doctor Cameron and Kim are captured by Revok. Revok spills the whole story that Dr. Ruth knew that ephemerol when given to pregnant women created scanners. Revok also says that He and Cameron are brothers and the sons of Dr. Ruth. Once Cameron turns down a place in Revok's army the two begin a scanning duel, a psychic battle royale. When Kim finally comes to we see that Cameron's body resembles a charcoal briquette and Cameron's mind took over Revok's body. The End.
This one had some good special effects but the acting not impressive.
Why didn't they just cut the power to the computer? Blowing it up seemed so drastic.
In reference to the DVD back cover, Trailers and the language selection aren't really "Special" features anymore.
Not as "Truly Horrifying" as the Los Angeles Times quote on the front of the box but still worth renting. (unless they were referring to the acting in the film)
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Dr. Ruth works for ConSec, a company that is trying to harness the power of the scanners for the good of mankind. After training Cameron in how to control his powers Dr. Ruth sends him out to find Revok. Cameron eventually finds a group of good scanners in hiding but all but Kim are wasted by Revok's goons. Cameron gets a vial of Ephemerol that was manufactured by another company called Biocarbon Amalgamate. Cameron Infiltrates the Biocarbon Amalgamate and finds out that they are related to ConSec and that a Computer Program called RIPE will blow the lid off the whole thing. Mind melding with a computer through a phone line, Cameron gets a list of Doctors using Ephemerol to make more scanners for Revok's army (I wonder what Cameron's baud rate is?). Keller orders the computer operators to self destruct the computer in order to keep the info safe but is killed when they actually blow it.
After talking to one doctor Cameron and Kim are captured by Revok. Revok spills the whole story that Dr. Ruth knew that ephemerol when given to pregnant women created scanners. Revok also says that He and Cameron are brothers and the sons of Dr. Ruth. Once Cameron turns down a place in Revok's army the two begin a scanning duel, a psychic battle royale. When Kim finally comes to we see that Cameron's body resembles a charcoal briquette and Cameron's mind took over Revok's body. The End.
Why didn't they just cut the power to the computer? Blowing it up seemed so drastic.
In reference to the DVD back cover, Trailers and the language selection aren't really "Special" features anymore.
Not as "Truly Horrifying" as the Los Angeles Times quote on the front of the box but still worth renting. (unless they were referring to the acting in the film)
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