Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.

Director:

Christian Duguay

Writers:

David Cronenberg (based on original characters created by), B.J. Nelson (screenplay)

Stars:

David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
David Hewlett	...	David Kellum
Deborah Raffin	...	Julie Vale
Yvan Ponton	...	Commander John Forrester
Isabelle Mejias	...	Alice Leonardo
Tom Butler	...	Doctor Morse
Raoul Max Trujillo	...	Peter Drak (as Raoul Trujillo)
Vlasta Vrana	...	Lt. Gelson
Murray Westgate	...	George Kellum
Doris Petrie	...	Susan Kellum
Dorothée Berryman	...	Mayor
Michael Rudder	...	Feck
David Francis	...	Gruner
Stephen Zarou	...	Walter
Tom Harvey	...	Chief Stokes
Jason Cavalier	...	Convenience Store Thug

Storyline

Good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. One scanner escapes from a mental center and is hired by the politician to use his powers to gain control of others minds, and then, their actions.

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Plot Keywords:

telekinesis | psychotronic film | sequel | second part | arcade | 

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Taglines:

Hold on to your head, they're back!

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and graphic sci-fi action

Did You Know?

Trivia

Budget: $5 million.

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Quotes

Commander John Forrester: How's everything?
Doctor Morse: Not good. Elaine, one of our female scanners, just died. We're losing too many, too fast. The only functional scanners we have left are Feck, Gruner and Drak.
[watching camera surveillance of Peter Drak]
Commander John Forrester: I wouldn't call that functional.
Doctor Morse: He's got tremendous command of his powers. He could bounce back.
Commander John Forrester: He's a psychopath. What we need is a clean scanner. A virgin mind.

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Connections

Follows Scanners (1981)

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Soundtracks

Nothing can stop us now
Written by Marty Simon & Aldo Nova
Performed by Laury Shedler & Alan Jordan
Courtesy of Polygram Music Publishing Inc.

User Reviews

This is what you call a really good sequel

David Kellum is talking date to shop and when they attack by robbers and David duck out the way, then they start shooting and killing, shopkeeper get killed and they are holding his date hostage until David Scanner ability come to action, kill the robbers.

John Forrester see the store's security tape and then goes to see David as an employee.

He tells David he is a Scanner, and that there are others like him around the world.

He asks David to help him track down criminals who have been unable to arrest, to which David agrees.

This is great follow up on the first , it not as GREAT as first but really good sequel.

I find the whole movie entertaining, it didn't take long for the movie to grab you in, there were some really great gory and nasty scenes.

The deaths scenes were really good, I love deaths scenes in this.

The performance from the whole cast was really good.

I going this movie 8 out of 10.

Details

Country:

Canada Japan USA

Language:

English French Japanese

Release Date:

28 June 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

Agyfürkészők 2. - Az új rendszer

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

CAD5,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Allegro Films, Filmtech, Image Organization

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1