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.
Practical Effects
Those burrowing robot puppets still slap harder than most CGI.
Acting
Peter Weller gives 'exhausted commander' his signature weary gravitas.
Writing
Philip K. Dick's short story DNA keeps the paranoia tight and nasty.
Director
Christian Duguay
Peter Weller
Colonel Hendricksson
Jennifer Rubin
Jessica
Roy Dupuis
Becker
Andrew Lauer
Ace Jefferson
Liliana Komorowska
Landowska
Michael Caloz
David
Jason Cavalier
Leone
Ron White
Chuck Elbarak
Leni Parker
Cpl. McDonald
Sylvain Massé
N.E.B. Soldier
Tom Berry
Technician
Henry Ramer
Screamers Crawl Narration (voice)
Charles Edwin Powell
Ross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Screamers' were originally called 'Claws' in Dick's short story 'Second Variety' — the filmmakers wisely upgraded the name.
This bombed in '95 but predicted modern anxieties about autonomous weapons and manufactured enemies — basically drone warfare before drones existed.
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