Scanners II: The New Order

Scanners are people with telepathic powers. A crooked politician uses a scanner to gain control of other people’s minds. Another scanner teams with his sister to stop them., The continuing battle between good and evil mind readers. Raoul Trujillo, David Hewlett. Forrester: Yvan Ponton. Julie: Deborah Raffin. Directed by Christian Duguay., Picking up where Scanners left off, this sequel has 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. Here, a “bad-guy” 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. A “good-guy” scanner teams with his sister to thwart these plans.