A vengeful scanner Karl Volkin escapes from an asylum and proceeds to kill other scanners to gain enough power from their life essence (or something) to destroy our hero scanner cop Samuel Staziak (returning from the first 'Scanner Cop' film) who had arrested him before. Detective Staziakis is played again by Daniel Quinn and he is blander than in the previous film, The film has two things in its favour that makes it as good as the first film. One is Patrick Kilpatrick as the villainous Volkin with the unholy smile, being intensely scary as he stalks his victims. The movie is at its best when he is onscreen. Two is the squishy make-up and creepy practical effects that are quite alarming when Volkin is attacking people and draining them, helped by the grinding music score by Richard Bowers. Nicely nasty.
Review of Scanner Cop II
