Screamers

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Screamers

R

1995

1h 48m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller) and new recruit Ace Jefferson (Andy Lauer) set out across the surface of Sirius 6B, where they hope to settle a violent labor dispute at a remote mining outpost. After going too far to turn back, they find the desert riddled with deadly Autonomous Mobile Swords, or Screamers. Created to protect the mines, these burrowing weapons have learned to replicate themselves. To make matters worse, recent generations of Screamers can assume humanoid form.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

The ensuing Darwinian struggle combines space opera skirmishes and Cold War paranoia - although the characters' dialogue involves the kind of tough guy/gal posturing overfamiliar from the sort of '80s action movie this was in fact supposed to be.

May 25, 2020

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Ken Tucker

Entertainment Weekly

Based on a short story by the great nutball sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Screamers is more like a high-pitched rip-off of Alien.

Rated: C+

Jul 6, 2010

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Brendan Kelly

Variety

A fun, fast-paced futuristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy.

Mar 26, 2009

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Plenty of good (albeit derivative) ideas and evident potential clash with contrived concepts, inconsistent pacing, and last-minute designs.

Rated: 4/10

Sep 24, 2020

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Chris Ward

Flickering Myth

The cheap B-movie version of better sci-fi movies, with a few things about it to like and a lot of things you just have to tolerate

Jun 8, 2020

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Director Christian Duguay kicks Screamers off with a comically dense information scroll that immediately establishes an atmosphere of confusion...

Rated: 1.5/4

Oct 10, 2019

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Markus L

It’s a fun-bad movie

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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A.L.Jude P

Wished this could have been better when some of the contemporary SCI-Fi's were brilliant at that time when tis was made. Suffice to say not bad as well.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/25/23

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Thomas m

Actually a decent movie, not great special effects, but storyline was interesting, quite scary at the end. It is getting bad reviews because people are so in tune with the garbage movies produced today. Today everything is special effects and cgi, oh and the political musings. This was just a good story.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/18/23

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David H

I adore this film. Watched it when I was a young lad and it terrified me to the point where I decided to watch it ones a year, so far without fail.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/18/23

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Paul O

Cult classic in the making

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/16/23

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Taylor L

This movie tries to make coin collectors cool for some reason. In a world of great sci-fi dystopias, anti-war action films, and tense psychological thrillers, Screamers isn't really much of anything to write home about. It's built around an interesting premise - humanoid threats and tension surrounding who is and isn't real - but doesn't have nearly the same level of philosophical heft or aesthetic design of Blade Runner, nor the pure tension and atmosphere of The Thing. Lots of missed opportunities surrounding factions pointlessly fighting each other, untrustworthy communications systems, self-replicating machines, and private mega-industries controlling space travel, replaced instead with tropes and clunky plot design. Peter Weller is a decent lead and some of the dialogue can be fun even if it sounds like it should have come out during the prior decade, but it doesn't compensate for what is otherwise a relatively forgettable sci-fi horror. A couple interesting plot-twists fall flat because they don't make a lot of sense and are usually compounded by bad effects. I like how in this future the perfect weapon is apparently just a little robot mole with a saw blade. (1.5/5)

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/25/22

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Synopsis

Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller) and new recruit Ace Jefferson (Andy Lauer) set out across the surface of Sirius 6B, where they hope to settle a violent labor dispute at a remote mining outpost. After going too far to turn back, they find the desert riddled with deadly Autonomous Mobile Swords, or Screamers. Created to protect the mines, these burrowing weapons have learned to replicate themselves. To make matters worse, recent generations of Screamers can assume humanoid form.

Director: Christian Duguay
Producer: Tom Berry, Franco Battista
Screenwriter: Miguel Tejada-Flores, Dan O'Bannon
Production Co: Triumph Films, Fuji Eight Company Ltd., Fries Film Group
Rating: R
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.1M
Runtime: 1h 48m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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