Scanners
Released in: 1981
Movie Description
An underworld of Scanners (with psychic and telekinetic powers) are attempting world domination. A rogue Scanner tries to bring them down.
Current Ratings
- Overall: 2.0
- SD: 0.6
- Votes: 7
- Overall: 4.1
- SD: 0.8
- Votes: 9
- Overall: 3.4
- SD: 0.7
- Votes: 7
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The most important terms found in IMDb reviews of this movie and their weights, according to a term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf-idf) model. Learn more here.
- powers: 0.34
- scanning: 0.31
- psychic: 0.26
- 1981: 0.23
- drug: 0.15
- pregnant: 0.14
- abilities: 0.13
- nervous: 0.13
- lack: 0.13
- smith: 0.12
- scanned: 0.12
- seizure: 0.11
- organization: 0.11
- effects: 0.11
- mutant: 0.11
- battle: 0.1
- computers: 0.1
- recruited: 0.1
- demonstration: 0.09
- explosion: 0.09
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