(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...
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| Peter Weller | ... | Joe Hendricksson | |
| Roy Dupuis | ... | Becker | |
| Jennifer Rubin | ... | Jessica Hanson | |
| Andrew Lauer | ... | Ace Jefferson (as Andy Lauer) | |
| Charles Edwin Powell | ... | Ross (as Charles Powell) | |
| Ron White | ... | Chuck Elbarak | |
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Michael Caloz | ... | David |
| Liliana Komorowska | ... | Landowska | |
| Jason Cavalier | ... | Leone | |
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Leni Parker | ... | Cpl. McDonald |
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Sylvain Massé | ... | N.E.B. Soldier |
| Bruce Boa | ... | Secretary Green | |
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Tom Berry | ... | Technician |
| Henry Ramer | ... | Screamers Crawl Narration (voice) | |
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(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. Written by Nicolas LeBlanc <ei952859@uqac.uquebec.ca>
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The silence of space is about to be shattered. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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$20,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
JPY 25,895,600 (Japan), 29 November 1996Gross USA:
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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.
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Music by Jerry Devilliers
Lyrics by Dwight Druick
Vocals by Loulou Hughes
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At one point Hendricksson refers to someone sarcastically as "a real Perky Pat." This is a reference to the short story "The Days of Perky Pat" and the novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch." Both were written by Philip K. Dick, who wrote the short story "Second Variety" on which "Screamers" is based. See more »Goofs
(at around 47 mins) Just after the boy is shot, Becker says, "Who would shoot a snot-nosed boy with a hard luck story?" and there is a vehicle moving in the background, high up on a ridge, from right to left between Becker's and Ross's heads. See more »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.
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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