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Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Innovative sci-fi horror story about a group of people with the ability to control other people's minds and bodies, with often fatal results. The powers - the result of a thalidomide-like drug given to a group of pregnant women - are being used for evil purposes by a child of the experiment. His brother is recruited by the doctor behind the original project to stop the evil sibling and his fellow scanners.

Last on

Wed 27 Oct 2010 22:45 BBC Four

Credits

Cameron Vale
Stephen Lack
Kim Obrist
Jennifer ONeill
Dr Paul Ruth
Patrick McGoohan
Darryl Revok
Michael Ironside
Braedon Keller
Lawrence Dane
Benjamin Pierce
Robert Silverman
Director
David Cronenberg

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