Plot
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding...
Release Year: 1995
Rating: 6.1/10 (11,454 voted)
Director:
Christian Duguay
Stars: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin
Storyline (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.
Writers: Philip K. Dick, Dan O'Bannon
Cast: Peter Weller
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Joe Hendricksson
Roy Dupuis
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Becker
Jennifer Rubin
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Jessica Hanson
Andrew Lauer
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Ace Jefferson
(as Andy Lauer)
Charles Edwin Powell
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Ross
(as Charles Powell)
Ron White
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Chuck Elbarak
Michael Caloz
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David
Liliana Komorowska
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Landowska
Jason Cavalier
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Leone
Leni Parker
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Cpl. McDonald
Sylvain Massé
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N.E.B. Soldier
Bruce Boa
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Secretary Green
Tom Berry
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Technician
Henry Ramer
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Screamers Crawl Narration
(voice)
Taglines:
The Last Scream You Hear Will Be Your Own.
Trivia:
The strange chessboard in the opening scene is the "Game of Ur," a game from ancient Mesopotamia. The game is still played in Iraq to this day.
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes:
When Hendricksson is the last one running out of Richard Cooper's command bunker, he falls in a large puddle of water, however, once he gets up, he is not wet.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Screamers Crawl Narration:
[voice over narration]
For the last fifty years, the new economic block, the 'N.E.B.' Corporation, has controlled mining operations throughout the known solar systems.
User Review
Underrated Sci-Fi Classic
Rating: 7/10
OK this film has virtually no budget for a sci-fi movie and no real
stars to speak of other than Peter 'Robocop' Weller but that doesn't
matter because what it does have is a good story well told. It's a
shame that bigger budget sci-fi productions never seem to remember that
sci-fi should be have an interesting premise and not just throw a few
explosions at the screen every few minutes.
What is on offer in Screamers is a solidly entertaining 1hr 40mins of
sci fi fun, reasonable acting and a great story based on a Phillip K
Dick short. The main idea of screamers is a very scary one a war that
had been taken over by machines that fight on our behalf a war that
can't be stopped.
For sci-fi fans this is a must see, for everyone else it's still
solidly entertaining 7/10
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