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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Spanish, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
Peace-seeking soldiers must cross a deadly wasteland inhabitedby a blade-wielding race of killing machines.
Editor's Note
Late in the 21st-century on a far-off mining planet ravaged by war, a colonel abandoned by his superiors tries to cross the desert to negotiate peace with his decimated rivals. In attempting the crossing he and his one-man crew have to contend with a race of weapons who've programmed themselves to kill any living being. Based on "Second Variety," a short story by Philip K. Dick.
Plot Summary
The year is 2078, and on the planet Sirius 6B, a long, harsh, hate-filled war is being waged between the Alliance and the NEB's. However the NEB's are willing to begin peace talks, so Alliance leader Col. Joseph Hendricksson, accompanied by a man named Ace, and later a young boy, journey across the nuclear war-ravaged plains to meet with their foes. Upon their arrival, however, they discover that most of the NEB's have been annihilated by the "screamers," knife-brandishing robots that slice and slash humans simply for fun. Hendrickson and Ace soon realize that their lives are in grave danger, for it's impossible to know who to trust... for the blood-seeking screamers can take on any form, from an inanimate object -- to a young boy.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Additional Release Material:
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/28/2005 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 11869 | | UPC: 00043396118690 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Excellent artwork....SCREAMERS is as handsome a context as any other..." 08/01/1996 p.62-3Variety
"SCREAMERS is a fun, fast-paced thriller....Duguay directs with an assured touch, making sure the film never strays from its action-packed course. The special effects are all first-rate..." 09/18/1995 Film Comment
"...This is an exemplary genre pic: superb 'found' locations with a judicious lacing of smartly functional special effects..." 11/01/1995 p.65-70 New York Times
"...[The film] does an efficient job of generating a stomach-knotting tension..." 01/26/1996 p.C23 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Made with a certain imagination and intelligence..." 01/26/1997 p.31 |
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