Scanner Cop
5.2 /10 1 Votes5.2
Director Pierre David Country Canada | 5/10 Genre Horror, Sci-Fi Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1994 (1994) Cast (Samuel Staziak), (Dr. Joan Alden), Richard Grove (Commander Peter Harrigan), (Lieutenant Harry Brown), (Karl Glock), (Zena)Similar movies The Langoliers , Ambition , Man Facing Southeast , Sex and the Single Alien Tagline Imagine a cop who can read your mind... then blow it away. |
Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn), a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a "scanner" who can read, control and even destroy the minds of others. He takes drugs to suppress his self-destructive powers. But a series of cop killings by otherwise law-abiding citizens seems like a mystery only a scanner can solve, so Staziaks boss and adoptive dad, Cmdr. Harrigan (Richard Grove), asks the rookie to go off his meds and track down whoever is turning average folks into assassins.
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Scanner Cop is a 1994 Canadian film. It is the fourth film in the Scanners series and the first film in the Scanner Cop series. It was written, produced, and directed by Pierre David.
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
Plot
Sam Staziak played by Daniel Quinn, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a Scanner (a person born with telepathic and telekinetic abilities). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
Scanner cop 1994 original trailer
Similar Movies
Scanner Cop and Scanners: The Showdown are part of the same movie series. Pierre David directed Scanner Cop and produced Scanners. Scanners II: The New Order (1991). Scanner Cop and Scanners III: The Takeover are part of the same movie series. A Scanner Darkly (2006).
Release
The film was released on VHS by Republic Pictures. A DVD has been released in Canada, along with the sequel Scanners: The Showdown (also known as Scanner Cop 2).
References
Scanner Cop WikipediaScanner Cop IMDb Scanner Cop themoviedb.org