Screamers: The Hunting (Video 2009)

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Screamers 3

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A ship stays in orbit around earth for 19 years. After it's discovery, the crew's released; unleashing a screamer girl.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gina Holden	...	Lt. Victoria Bronte
	Jana Pallaske	...	Schwartz
	Lance Henriksen	...	Orsow
	Greg Bryk	...	Cmdr. Andy Sexton
	Christopher Redman	...	Rafe Danielli
	Tim Rozon	...	Madden
	Dave Lapommeray	...	Sgt. Romulo (as Dave La Pommeray)
	Jody Richardson	...	Soderquist
	Stephen Amell	...	Guy
	Holly Uloth	...	Hannah (as Holly O'Brien)
	Darryl Hopkins	...	Dwight
	Stephen Lush	...	Bryce (as Steve Lush)
	Stephen Dunn	...	Teenage Screamer Boy 1
	Justin Madol	...	Teenage Screamer Boy 2
	Sarah Small	...	Teenage Screamer Girl

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A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost, but more important, they discover that the threat of the screamers has become even more insidious, now that they're able to morph into human form. Written by Anonymous

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The Perfect Weapon Is Now The Ultimate Killing Machine

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Rated R for sci-fi creature violence and gore | See all certifications »

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Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

January 2009 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

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Filming Locations:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada See more »

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Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

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Pope Productions See more »

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Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

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1.78 : 1

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The backpacks they wear are covers of vacuum cleaner parts. See more »

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The inside of the space ship has a stairwell with an exit sign and a hand railing. See more »

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Orsow: That's a hell of a lot of toasters.
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Crazy Credits

[credits end] The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. No screamers were harmed in the making of this motion picture. See more »

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Not An Original Bone In This Substandard Sequel

15 February 2009 | by Kage-3 – See all my reviews

I caught the first "Screamers" in the theater and enjoyed the heck out of it. Director Christian Duguay had the foresight to use some decent actors (Peter Weller chiefly among them), paid attention to fashioning a politically charged story and did his best to deliver a decent film. Hey, it wasn't perfect, but he succeeded more than not.

Now comes Sheldon Wilson who tries to make up for a ridiculous story with some interesting visuals. If you give bad actors some good dialogue or even good actors some bad dialogue, you sometimes get lucky. However, when you give bad actors some bad dialogue, riddle a plot with inconsistencies, gaping holes and a lack of any logic while making it all extremely easy to pick out every twist and turn to come, then you get "Screamers: The Hunting".

Things are still bad on Sirius 6B and when a distress signal is sent to Earth, the Alliance dispatches a few 20-somethings to seek out any survivors and bring them back home. Speeding their efforts is some sort of super storm that's going to wipe out all life on the planet, giving them a couple of days to complete their mission.

Along the way they'll meander around, discover some survivors, run, discover that Screamers have gotten aboard their ship (how, exactly, is never disclosed), run back to the survivors, get the majority of the survivors slaughtered, leave with someone meant to be a red herring (right), meander some more while looking for fuel cells and... Let's just leave it at lots of meandering, lots of banal dialogue, lots of bad acting and a thankless appearance by Lance Henrickson. Why didn't they put Henrickson in charge of the mission? The man has presence and the young crew members simply do not.

And the end? It's as predictable as the rest of the film. Oh, and don't forget to count how many times the characters mention the word "screamers". Screenwriter Miguel Tejada-Flores seems to think it's a really cool word and repeats it every opportunity he gets.

I was extremely excited to learn that somebody picked up the story again and moved forward with it. And after watching "Screamers: The Hunting", I think Sheldon Wilson owes fans of the original film an apology.

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