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Adam Ludwig

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Géza Kovács

Sonny Forbes

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Victor Désy

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Ken Umland

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Terrance P. Coady

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Nicholas Kilbertus

Don Buchsbaum

Roland Nincheri

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Robert Boyd

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Michael Maloley

Ian McQue

Chuck Shamata

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Carol Spier

Ronald Sanders

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Pierre David

Howard Shore

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Constant Natale

Claude Héroux

Gary Zeller

Victor Solnicki

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Brigitte McCaughry

Michael A. Williams

Jean Savard

Jimmy Kaufman

Tom Schwartz

Stephan Dupuis

Chris Walas

Dick Smith

Anne Murphy

Michel Comte

Michael Joy

Barbara Jones

Charles Bowers

Jean Bourret

Peter Dowker

Tom Coulter

Ernie Tomlinson

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Melanie Johnson

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Peter Borowski

Peter Bray

Terry Burke

Don Cohen

David Neil Trifunovich

Don Berry

Mike Hoogenboom

Jacques Godbout

Gabor Vadnay

Arshad Shaw

Gregory Villeneuve

Paul Coombe

François Dupéré

Ginette D'Amico

Dennis Pike

Gary Daprato

Gary Hymes

Denis Fugere

Robin Miller

Maris H. Jansons

Renée April

Michel Périard

Louis Craig

Muriel Fournier

Daniel Hausmann

Blanche Boileau

Céline Fournier

Claude Langlois

Thomas Metzger

Neil Bibby

Christine Burt

Armand Thomas

Victor Blazevic

Charles Toupin

Patrick Ferrerro

Nerses Kolanian

Danièle Rohrbach

Bill Wiggins

Kay Gray

France Boudreau

Chris Hutton

Guy Landry

Nick Rose

Marilyn Majerczyk

Glendon Light

Kim Obrist

Serge Major

Claire Veillet

Charles R. Bowers

Peter Jermyn

Bruce Nyznik

Peter Burgess

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When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally mind-blowing "Revok" (Michael Ironside) and he is determined to galvanise all of his kind, destroy this company and take over the world! A few years later and "Vale" (Stephen Lack) is minesweeping from a burger joint in a mall when an altercation with two judgemental women results in an escalator chase throughout the building then a dart in the arm. He awakens to a meeting with "Dr. Ruth" (Patrick McGoohan not Ruth Westheimer) who manages to convince this man that "Revok" is a baddie and that his gang must be infiltrated if he is to be thwarted. "Vale" has a limited understanding of his talents, but armed with the calming drug "Ephemerol" sets off to try and track down his new nemesis. What now ensues follows his increasingly perilous and frequently quite surreal investigations to track down his quarry - and with bodies dropping like flies, he finds his only ally in "Kim" (Jennifer O'Neill) and discovers that there has got to be a leak at the company. The special effects aren't the best here, but it's a decent story with Vale and Ironside delivering quite well as we discover that the real story is nowhere near as simplistic as we'd been led to believe. McGoohan is as hammy as ever and O'Neill, well she never was much good and isn't really here, either. The make-up artists get to have some fun with the quirky denouement and all in all this isn't a bad sci-fi horror film that has a little menace, swipes at large scale pharma and has it's tongue firmly in it's cheek throughout.

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