Scanners II
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Scanners II |
| Original title | Scanners II: The New Order |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 104, shortened: 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18, shortened: 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Duguay |
| script | BJ Nelson |
| production |
Pierre David , René Malo |
| music | Marty Simon |
| camera | Rodney Gibbons |
| cut | Yves Langlois |
| occupation | |
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Scanners II (Original title: Scanners II: The New Order ) is a Canadian horror film and the 1991 feature film debut by Christian Duguay . It is the sequel to David Cronenberg's Scanners - Your Thoughts Can Kill . The film was shot exclusively in the Canadian city of Montreal . Two years later, Duguay also directed the second sequel Scanners III , which is also a direct-to-video production.
action
The policeman John Forrester wants to bring a city under his control and create a new order. For this endeavor he would like to use the talent of the scanner, which has the power of telepathy and telekinesis . This ability is shared by all offspring of women who took an alleged sedative during their pregnancy, which is an unknown side effect that triggers the scanner mutations. Nobody knows exactly how many of these offspring, whose children are also scanners, there are and where they are.
Forrester now takes all the scanners he can get hold of and has them imprisoned in a secret laboratory by Doctor Morse in the Neurological Institute. They are given medication so that they become "compliant" and Forrester can use them for its purposes. So far, however, no preparation has achieved the effect that he wanted. The scanners are simply lacking in will and drive and thus not usable for him. Only the new addition, Peter Drak, seems to be more suitable to respond appropriately to the drugs, but he is also a psychopath, which in turn makes him unpredictable. That's why Morse says Forrester needs to get him a “virgin” scanner if they are to succeed.
Medical student David Kellum has been suffering from some kind of migraine lately . Little does he know that he too is a scanner and that his abilities are beginning to awaken. He only becomes aware of this when his girlfriend is attacked by gangsters and her life is in danger. David rushes to her aid and in his anger he only kills the men with his mental strength. The surveillance footage of this robbery is seen by Forrester and he is sure that he has a suitable candidate in David. He takes him to the neurological institute, where David is examined and learns that there are other people like him. Peter Drak, for example, whom he gets to know and with whom he is supposed to measure his strength. Drak loses what he resents David.
Forrester begins to get David under his control by pretending to do nothing but good for the city. At first the plan works and David exposes criminals for the police only by being able to read their minds. However, David first doubts when he has to help Forrester become police chief by influencing the mayor's thoughts. He also meets Drak, who makes it clear to him that he is now just a tool for Forrester. He should scan his mind, then he would know. He does so and is horrified. Determined not to help Forrester establish his "New Order", David flees the city and is now hunted by Forrester. David hides with his parents in the country and learns from them that he has been adopted, that his birth parents, Kim Obrist and Cameron Vale, are dead. While David takes a walk to process this news, Forrester's henchmen arrive and kill his foster parents. From his dying father he learns that he has an older sister. He goes to her and she tells him that Forrester killed her parents and that her friend Walter is also imprisoned in his laboratory.
David goes on the offensive with his sister Julie in the fight against Forrester. They break into the neurological institute and try to free the captured scanners. Peter Drak offers them massive resistance. But with the support of the other scanners they can defeat him, but they do not survive this unusual effort and neither does Dr. Mores finds death. Forrester, who is about to explain to the press how he wants to keep the city free from crime, is telepathically forced by David to admit that he only wants power over everyone and that he even had them murdered for it. Physically disfigured by David's powers, David is sure that Forrester is no longer dangerous.
criticism
“Continuation film in which disgust and tension are kept within limits; a boring, sometimes sentimentally told story whose political swipes are drowned out in phrases. "
“A wonderful example of how a sequel shouldn't be exactly. Almost all of the action is taken straight from the first film. However, all ideas of the original were implemented physically, and everything relating to the use of brains was bypassed. "
Awards
The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1992 in the category Best Genre Video Release .
Web links
- Scanners II in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Scanners II. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Scanners II ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on moria.co.nz, September 13, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
