Screamers
Director:
Christian Duguay
Screenplay: Dan O'Bannon, Miguel Tejada-Flores (from the short story, Second
Variety, by Philip K. Dick)
Producers: Tom Berry, Franco Battista
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From the back of the DVD: After 10 years of devastating warfare on Planet Sirius 6B, a distant mining planet, Commander Joseph Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is assigned to protect his outpost from the New Economic Block. His scientists have created a perfect weapon, designed to destroy all enemy life - a blade wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers. But something has gone wrong - the Screamers continue to evolve without any human guidance, cloning themselves into human form and obliterating all forms of human life. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of the endless war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate peace with the enemy. But to do so, he must first destroy the very weapon he helped create ... Screamers! |
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Don't try this at home, kids
The first
thing to say about this film is that it's not a Roy Dupuis movie.
Granted, he's in it, but few people writing about it get round to mentioning
his performance. The reviews mostly concentrate on the adaptation of
the Philip K. Dick story, Peter Weller's performance, or Duguay's use of the
$11 budget. |
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Promotional Appearances
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