Screamers

Sci-fi horror story in which a military commander sets out to negotiate peace, but must cross a treacherous wasteland populated by Screamers – blade-wielding machines programmed to kill any human. And now the robots, who can control their own development, begin taking on human form. Based on Philip K Dick’s story ‘Second Variety’., In the year 2078, a planet is overrun by robotic killing machines who take on human form and threaten to wipe out the population., Christian Duguay’s film is a slick but chilling dystopian nightmare, based on a Philip K Dick story. In the year 2028, on the distant mining planet Sirius 6B, war has devastated the planet and those who survive are threatened by their own deadly invention – Screamers, evolving robots with one purpose: to kill humans. The two warring sides on the planet try to negotiate a truce to face this now common enemy but first they must meet and it’s up to Peter Weller to lead his group out into the killing fields to try and unite the humans against the Screamers – who have just evolved again…, Christian Duguay’s film is a slick but chilling dystopian nightmare, based on a Philip K Dick story. In the year 2028, on the distant mining planet Sirius 6B, war has devastated the planet and those who survive are threatened by their own deadly invention – Screamers, evolving robots intent on killing humans. The two warring sides on the planet try to negotiate a truce to face this now common enemy but it’s up to Peter Weller to lead his group out into the killing fields to try and unite the humans against the Screamers – who have just evolved again., This action-packed sci-fi thriller is set upon the planet Sirius 6B in the year 2078. The planet has been decimated by a vast nuclear war. Many have survived, but their continued survival is threatened by the dreaded screamers, strange shape-changing mechanical creatures who use razor sharp knives to hack up any life-form in their way. They earned their name because when they kill, they make a horrible high pitched sound. The first screamer makes its appearance as a lone soldier approaches a bunker. He has come to deliver an important message from the NEB to its enemy the Alliance. Unfortunately, the low flying screamer gets to the soldier first, and quicker than Popeil’s Vegamatic, slices and dices the fellow into tiny pieces. Later a jet crashes near the bunker. Aboard it is a nuclear reactor. One man survives the crash. The man, Ace, knows how to make a bomb with the reactor. Alliance-leader Col. Joseph Hendricksson takes Ace and they travel across the great irradiated desert to met with the NEB leaders. Along the way they find a small boy and though they don’t want to, bring him along. Unfortunately, by the time they get to the NEB headquarters, the screamers have killed all but Becker, a tough soldier, Ross, who is nearly mad, and sexy smuggler Jessica. When Becker and Ross see the boy, they think he is a screamer and kill him. They are right and soon the little group find themselves surrounded by the hellish killing machines, all of which have taken the shapes of small boys., In the year 2078, a planet is overrun by robotic killing machines who take on human forms and threaten to wipe out the population., Betrayed by his commanders on Earth, Colonel Hendricksson and his handful of soldiers cross the wasteland of Sirius 6B. To do so, they must brave the threat from the Screamers, blade-swinging beasts which Hendricksson helped to create.