Groin Attack: At the beginning of the movie, Helena and Joyce are making their way down an alleyway when the two of them are confronted by a trio of thugs.Evil Laugh: Helena starts to enjoy the evil laugh after the drug makes her lose her moral inhibitions.Since it is an experimental drug, it is untested on scanners and turns them insane. Fantastic Drug: Another version of Ephemerol appears to explain how Helena turned evil.Driven to Suicide: When the Ephemerol 3 no longer affects her psyche and she's confronted with her actions, Helena kills herself by electrocution.Corrupt Corporate Executive: When Helena takes over her father's pharmaceutical firm (after murdering him in cold blood), she takes the company in ethically dubious directions he would have objected to, uses her psychic powers to kill her professional rivals, and eventually tries to brainwash the world.When Alex (Helena's brother and another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing. Cigarette Burns: Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand.Cain and Abel: Alex has to fight his sister Helen after she becomes insane.Asshole Victim: Helena murders the creepy director of an institute who routinely abused his psychic patients by gruesomely blowing his head up. After Helena takes control of the company Alex must come back to stop her. After a mental episode Helena steals the drug and tests it on herself with success, but the side effects degrade her empathy and turn her into a sociopath bent on domination. The drug is however experimental and possibly dangerous. Alex and Helena's father, a millionaire pharmaceutical businessman and scientist who adopted the two when they were kids, has developed a drug that might help them, Eph 3. Due to a mishap he accidentally pushes his friend off the balcony with his telekinesis, and goes into self-imposed exile in a Buddhist monastery on the other side of the world.īack home and months later, his sister Helena is breaking down from the pressure of hearing everyone's thoughts all the time. Scanners III: The Takeover is the second sequel to Scanners, released in 1992 and also directed by Christian Duguay.Īt a Christmas party in a high rise apartment, scanner Alex Monet shows off his psychic abilities with his best friend.
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