Screamers
Tags: horror, cult, suspenseful, murder

Plot synopsis:
A robotic voice (Henry Ramer) reads the captions:Planet Earth has colonized other planets for its own purposes. We are in 2078, and Sirius 6B is one of our colonies. What we want from this planet is a new energetic material, berynium. The problem is that this material is highly polluting and radioactive. Because of the careless mining, the one Sirius 6B planet is now a ravaged desertic land, not fertile as it used to be. NEB Corporation, a monopoly, have controlled all mining operations in this planet and all the Solar System. The Alliance, a mixture of a union and a series of scientists, tried to stop NBE from destroying the planet. NBE and The Alliance started a war in Sirius 6B, which also created a new Cold War in Earth. However, physical or nuclear war have only happened at Sirius 6B. Thousands of civilians died in this planet, and also they have the problem of radioactive clouds caused by the berynium. After 10 all-out war years, only a handful of survivors remain in the planet.The mining town looks like a dusty ghost town. Miners are playing for cigarettes. Through CCTV, they see somebody stumbling closer. That person, a NEB soldier (Sylvain Massé), looks terrified. Lieutenant Landowska (Liliana Komorowska) wonders what he's doing moving closer without even attempting to hide, and wants Captain Joseph "Joe" Henderson (Peter Weller) to be called. There is a moment when this person stops. Something moves below the sand. The runaway soldier shoots it. Suddenly, the dusty plain is filled with underground small things shooting at him. The lieutenant watch as the things scream with ear-splitting sharp noises and attack this man, who has shown a cylinder for them to see. There are round robotic things under the sand, and they jump to dismember him: first an arm, then a leg... until they kill him off. One of the soldiers inside the bunker (Tom Berry) pukes. The lieutenant and this soldier try to convince themselves that they are the good side. When the Captain arrives, he says that without the Screamers they would have lost the war long ago. The Captain also wonders what a single person was doing on his own so exposed to the enemies and the screamers. As the lieutenant mentions that he had something on his hand, the Captain decides to check it out - some of the soldiers think it is going to be a bomb, so they leave the Captain to go fetch the cylinder on his own. The Captain is wearing a high-tech writsband which will prevent screamers from attacking him. Screamers are taking the parts of the dead soldier under the soil, so the Captain has to shoot one to get hold of the cylinder. The cylinder is a message for The Alliance.Cut to classical music, Don Giovanni by Mozart in the bunker. The Captain wants to talk to Chuck Elbarak (Ron White). He is playing with a Cesar Augustus coin. The document is Priority 7, which means that it's only for the eyes of Chuck and the Captain. Chuck opens the cylinder.It is a message from Richard Cooper, a Commander of the NEB Army to Joe, asking for peace negotiation. Two officers should discuss it. Chuck thinks that it may be a tactic to full them.Joe tells Communications Officer MacDonald (Leni Parker) to send a message to Earth to ask for advice. She says that an urgent message from a commercial transport has been received asking for permission to land. Joe wants to know what the emergency was first.In the cylinder there was a map of the NEB commanding offices as well. They wonder why the NEB has decided to speak out after so long without any contact with them, not even radio waves.Through virtual reality, a big shot Commanding Officers called Secretary Green (Bruce Boa) says that the NEB have asked for a ceasefire, so that they have the opportunity to bring peace to the world. Berynium has been found somewhere else, in another planet called Tritom 4, and this time there are no signs of radioactivity. The radioactivity interferes with the message from this guy, which is leave incomplete, making Joe swear and say that the Morse Code used to be better and more reliable.Joe and Chuck think that if war had broken loose on Earth there would have had to be a ceasefire much much sooner. They think about the wife who left one of them.Radiation approaches, so the soldiers have to light a special red cigarette. Everything trembles and many people die because of the falling buildings. There was a falling airship prepared to build bombs - it was a nuclear reactor.A person is rescued from the debris. Screamers appear to take away the bodies of the dead. Screamers are a race of killing devices which move underground, among the soft sands of the planet. They have blades to cut, shred and kill and they are self-replicating. They have been designed to kill all enemies, but as they replicate on their own, little by little their purpose changed, and now they want to hunt down all humans and kill all life. So in this sense, screamers are both enemies of both the Alliance and NBE. Screamers attack the human pulse, but the wristband makes them believe that the person wearing it is dead. Radioactivity has corroded their outer shells and their shrill voice is the only sign of their approach - unless you see them running towards you, when you will usually see a cloud of reddish dust from the ground of the planet.Rodgers () lets Michael "Ace" Jefferson (Andrew "Andy" Lauer) to talk with the Captain. Chuck tries to make some research on the screamers - even after losing their brain they have impulse reactions of aggression. He realises that the programme within the screamers has been modified. Jefferson is shocked to hear that he is the only survivor of 38. The Captain is worried about the nuclear reactor which was going to be used to manufacture more weapons. Ace didn't know that it was there. Ace says that Green is already dead, there is no such ceasefire and he was aimed to Tritom 4, where there is another war going on. The Alliance Command took Green's life. The Captain is really angry, his expectations of peace quashed. Chuck still believes in Green's message. Joe thinks that they are stuck in the planet, and that they have been being fed rubbish to keep them on the planet and their families back on Earth happy. Cooper and the NBE also know that it's best for the moral in Earth that they stay on Sirius 6B, forgotten. The Captain wants to go to the NBE headquarters and create their own ceasefire. Chuck says that the NBE wanted two people, in a way offering himself to go. The Captain says that he will go with Ace, who is almost a kid. Chuck will stay behind and become the First-in-Command in case any other starship falls out of the sky.Chuck bides farewell to Joe and Ace. The planet is icy and snowy, with constant winds. Joe will communicate every 4 hours. If they miss the time twice, it will be because they will be dead. Pop music sounds.They reach an abandoned berynium factory. Ace is told that he will know if the red cigs are working if he doesn't die. Ace doesn't know anything about the war. The Captain is tired of it all and wants to come back in peace, as his world has been shattered for long enough. A screamer passes them by undetected. Ace shoots a screamer which was eating a huge rat; Joe says that screamers are scavengers and that they learn fast. Ace wonders if they are cybernetic or alive. The Alliance created them, but now nobody knows how many screamers are or where they are.They jump to the floor when they see somebody.A child's voice asks "Can I come with you?" There is a child standing there. He looks terrified. The boy is holding a teddy bear. He says he is living in the ruins. The boy is a bit vague about what he eats and how he hides from the screamers. The Captain gives him a food ration, and they will pick him up on their way back. The boy wants to go with them, and Ace agrees about that. Joe looks at the boy and accepts.That night, over a bonfire, they ask his name: David Edward Dearing (Michael Caloz). His parents died in the blasts. Ace explains how to fry rats.Joe calls Chuck, who says that they had a new recruit. It's a bit strange but it's OK. David laughs about a bug which scares Ace out of his wits. Joe and Ace have a restless night.A screamer approaches. Joe is playing with David's teddy bear. Ace was keeping guard, but he was listening to an erotic disco music, that's why he didn't hear the screamer. Joe has killed the screamer, which is different and looks like an animal.Ace talks and talks; Joe tells him to shut up. They cross a frozen lake and the three of them are detected by somebody who is coughing. They have reached NEB headquarters. The person shoots David.David shows to be a robot. He screams like the screamer he is until Ace kills him off.The NEB soldiers tell them that the screamers now tag along, and that once when they are in is when the killing starts. Joe shows them the peace negotiation offered by Richard Cooper. His mate Becker (Roy Dupuis) asks him if he is really let them inside their bunker, to which the Officer says that yes, he is about to, and he questions if he has something better to do today.Joe calls Chuck and tells him that he's found a new type of screamer which looks like a kid, so not to let anybody in. Chuck can't hear properly.Ace and Becker take out his shotgun cockily, but Jessica Hanson (Jennifer Rubin) interrupts. She is boss there, and is worried about drinking real Scotch, not some synthetic bullshit. She used to be a freelancer dealing in the black market. She has helped Becker and taken him in.Richard Cooper must be at headquarters, because that place is like a hidden hotel. Joe still insists in going to the Command building. She will show Joe the underground way there if he promises to take her back to Earth. He tells her that Earth will not be a welcoming place, as there is a new war in Triton 4. Joe admires her beauty - she is half naked washing herself with a sponge in front of him. Jessica recounts how an army of Davids killed the NEB soldiers.Ace and Becker dislike each other. Ace discovered that she has a plutonium rocket. Joe doesn't want to use it.So they start through the underground corridors. Rats scare Ross (Charles Edwin Powell). They open a trapdoor and they find a dead body. Jessica moves on, not scared, saying that they are almost there.They reach the ground level of Command Centre.Joe tells Ace that he is not going to trust Ross. There is blood everywhere and Ross becomes hysterical and shoots, so everybody is going to see that he won't do anything stupid. Joe says that Cooper would be there if he was alive. Joe tries to communicate with somebody, but the system is not working very well. They see a small screamer-kangaroo. It connects itself to the main computer, takes the info and leaves. Joe et al. cannot do anything apart from hiding themselves. Luckily, the screamer doesn't detect them. Nobody moves while the screamer stares at them. Fortunately, it is about to leave, but Ross makes some noise and it attacks the noise. Ross shoots the jumping screamer, damaging all the computer unis.Suddenly, "Can I go with you now?" is heard. Joe tells Ace to take everybody away from there. Joe is left behind and checks the computer system with the design of the modern screamers. Type 1 the rat/kangaroo looking thing. Several Davids are approaching - they are Type 3, and Joe has to shoot one of them. Joe checks for Type 2, but he has no time left. Ace returns to help Joe to leave the place. They take a lift. Becker was waiting for them.Joe asks what Type 2 was. Jessica says that it was a wounded soldier crying "Help me, Help me". Joe says that the Alliance never saw one, and wonders why. Ross, the scaredy soldier who keeps on repeating and repeating "Get off my back" is considered to be a Type 2. Becker kills him by throwing a knife at his belly. Joe picks up the knife and sees that it has blood on it. Joe says that Ross was killed for no reason at all.Then, Jessica threatens Becker saying that he may be the Type 2 screamer. Joe decides to leave the place. Jessica wonders if Joe's men would let the remaining people in if Joe dies. He says that if Chuck is clever, he won't let anybody in. Becker says that he doesn't repent.Joe, Ace, Jessica and Becker leave the place.When they get to the bunker, Chuck tells him to get closer as he can't hear well. Screamers repeat themselves, and that's how Joe realises it's not a human speaking to him. An army of Davids get out of the bunker. They can be set fire easily and finally the nuclear rocket is thrust onto the bunker.Becker becomes wounded and screams "Help me". Ace stands up and tries to help me. Becker is a screamer and kills Ace.Becker says that he is his own self, and that he has not love, which is a human emotion. Ace is dead, as Joe checks. Jessica says that they are going to die, but Joe says that not today. Joe speaks of a way out of the planet. Joe saw a sign and cuts Jessica's hand to check that she is human. She tells him that he doesn't need to do that. They kiss passionately. At Alamo, where berynium was first discovered, there is an escape pod. Joe tells Jessica that he doesn't have anybody apart from her when she wants to give up.They reach Alamo, which works with Joe's biological data, and only his. They try to make everything work. There is something blocking the way, and Joe goes to solve the problem while Jessica gets down to the pod. The countdown begins.Chuck appears and hits Joe. Chuck has become a screamer. Chuck says that he took Cooper's face before, and mocks that he mentioned god and Jesus. Joe gives him a shortcut when everything looked lost because he was strangling him.Jessica has looked at everything. There is only a place in the pod. Joe tells Jessica to go. She says she can't go, as only him can fly the pod. He suggests calling heads or tails, but then he puts a glove on top of the coin and they kiss passionately.Another Jessica appears. The first Jessica says that she was trying to tell him. The two Jessicas fight for Joe. The second Jessica wanted to get onto the pod herself. The second Jessica kills the first one. The rocket is ready to leave and the first it emits kills the second wicked Jessica. Joe tells the first Jessica that they have become human, as they are killing each other now. The first Jessica says that she also learned how to love, and dies.Joe enters the pod and goes to Earth. He throws away the wristband which detects screamer.The teddy bear has started to move - it's a screamer.---written by KrystelClaire

Review: OK this film has virtually no budget for a sci-fi movie and no real stars to speak of other than Peter 'Robocop' Weller but that doesn't matter because what it does have is a good story well told.
It's a shame that bigger budget sci-fi productions never seem to remember that sci-fi should be have an interesting premise and not just throw a few explosions at the screen every few minutes.What is on offer in Screamers is a solidly entertaining 1hr 40mins of sci fi fun, reasonable acting and a great story based on a Phillip K Dick short.
Screamers had elements of its plot which can be found in other films (ie men and machines, monsters) but it blends them seamlessly into its own original story.
I had read Phillip K Dick's 'Second Variety', the short story upon which this movie is based, before I ever saw Screamers, and I didn't realize Screamers was even based on the story until I watched it.
Being a big fan of the original story I was glad to see it brought to the screen, and more or less faithfully - I thought Peter Weller did a great job in this movie, the atmosphere was actually somewhat as I had imagined it reading the story (they updated it somewhat by placing it in a totally different location, since the original story's wasteland was a result of nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia; something which I'm sure seemed plausible at the time it was written but is a little dated now), and although I don't think they pulled off the sort of paranoia we saw in The Thing, there was some nice tension as the story unfolded, although it fell apart a bit at the end.Bottom line - if you're a sci fi fan sniffing around for some sci fi you haven't seen but don't want to sit through a total dog, it's not a bad renter..
Jennifer Rubin also puts on a great performance as her character starts as a mystery and gradually opens up in to someone the audience really cares for.The "Screamers" are a tremendous idea as underground defence robots who adapt to produce a new, human looking batch of screamers.
Sadly, poor stop motion effects mean it is a disappointment when it comes to seeing the screamers attack but it is not hard to overlook special effects for a good story.It is a shame Screamers wasn't given more budget as it had potential to be a truly great film.
The script, which is good throughout, is also especially good in the final sequence.With more money behind it and better direction, Screamers would be a Sci-Fi classic, as it is, Screamers is an underrated, well acted, great story..
Dick story and has all the intelligence you would expect from a sci-fi from him - this is not a gory horror movie.
The supporting cast are OK with their stereotyped characters but the real stars are the Screamers who start out by small things with saw-blades and gradually take other forms.
The special effects are a bit ropey but do the job - after all this is a very low budget movie.The whole thing is not as good as it could have been but is certainly head and shoulders above a lot of low budget sci-fi thrillers..
Dick story (the writer of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which was the background for "Blade Runner") this movie delivers, but suffers because of the apparently tight budget.
Some scenes in here reminded me of the original "Star Trek" episodes, where the production crew had to become quite inventive to get effects on an almost non-existing budget.So movies low on money have to rely on their scripts and on good actors, and "Screamers" has them both.
It does a good job of keeping you in suspense, and the landscape and look of the movie will appeal to sci-fi fans.If you're looking for a masterpiece, this isn't it.
But if you're looking for good old fashioned post-apoc, gritty future in space sci-fi, with good suspense and special effects, then this is the movie for you.
I thought this movie was probably one of the best sci-fi films in years that I've seen.
If you liked either of those movies,you will enjoy this movie for its intelligent entertainment.Weller's character Hendricksson is fairly straight forward as a disenchanted commander believing that his command has been abandoned and that their battles on this outpost planet have been made irrelevant by the higher authorities.
Screamers is a amazing movie that features lots of suspense, plot turns, and a few good comedy scenes of its own.
One of these is that it's based on a short story by one of the hallmark authors of science fiction, Philip K Dick, and another is that the script mostly got work done (and seems most noticeable) by Dan O'Bannon, writer behind Alien and Return of the Living Dead.
There's more weight in levels of irony, not always the uproarious variety but more nuanced and violent, more in putting some good twists to the clichés that are taken for granted in stories set in desolate futuristic environments (the discovery of a cute abandoned child, the devilish nature of the 'screamers' themselves and how their more advanced counterparts work, the personalities of the crew that Peter Weller's character discovers at the base, and how each member soon dies/gets killed off).
However it should be said, if only on some level of understanding from reading past works of his, it feels like it has a level of faith to the source, albeit changing locations and certain details in the situations, by being approximately cynical to the characters.The only problem then comes in with it being directed, more or less, as a standard slightly-higher-in-quality made for TV movie.
It's by no means a sci-fi channel movie of the week, however Screamers might have fared a little better with its challenging and darkly funny bits without director Christian Duguay, who is professional enough to make it watchable on such a low budget (low for how it looks anyway), but doesn't give certain scenes enough juice to really fly past where it stays at being average.
The cast too is a little more of the regular variety, with isn't totally a bad thing; by having character actors, B-level character actors (if that), it helps add to the levels of slight subversion in this story they're in about technology gone to the dogs on a snow planet in 2078.
In fact, the attention to detail (surroundings, back-ground, odd gadgets etc.) was excellent, as is important in all sci-fi films...by creating a coherent world, the movie becomes that much more convincing.
Beginning with an unforgettable scene with Robocop (Peter Weller aka Joe Hendricksson) listening to one of the best musical masterpieces on earth ever made (Leporello's aria: "Madamina, il catalogo e questo" from "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), sitting in a lone chair "lost somewhere in Galaxy" and spinning in the air an antic roman coin, ending with an evil Teddy Bear scary fly towards our poor Mother-earth, this film is a must-see for any cinema Connoisseur.
Dick adaptations, SCREAMERS relates the tale of a war between two groups on a barren planet that is complicated by a batch of killer robots that are beginning to replicate themselves to resemble humans.
Dick's best stories often dealt with identity confusion (think TOTALL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER), and SCREAMERS fall squarely into that category as no one knows who to trust anymore.
The acting in this movie is good, especially by Peter Weller.
Based on an Philip K Dick's short story 'Second Variety', 'Screamers' is set on the planet Sirius 6B in the year 2078 and focuses on two warring factions and the weapons they develop  in order to defeat one another.
Screamers then already has value, for any Science Fiction buff's collection.The fact that it is based on a Philip K Dick novel gives it a worthwhile pedigree, because Philip is one of the most respected science fiction authors since Asimov.Not having read the book, I am not in a position to advise as to how well the transposition to the silver screen has been performed, but it is unlikely to satisfy ardent Dick fans.Essentially, Peter Weller is the leader of a group of Striking miners, who are at war with a government that wants them to mine energy efficient ore, but highly radioactive...
It has a few plot holes like any science fiction movie and with the budget they had it looks great on the visual department.
Since it's been awhile since I saw it, I cannot remember many details, but thought at the time that it was an OK way to spend a couple of hours on an evening of otherwise uninteresting TV.If you like SF, you should read the short story by Philip K Dick that this movie is based on.
The poor humans can't tell what is a robot or human,before it is to late.Trust no one, even your best friend can be one.This is a good movie with a great story.
Quality Sci Fi. Screamers has all the tricks for a good science fiction flick.
All this is very well done in Screamers and I happen to enjoy watching this whenever I get the chance.Weller does a superb job with his grizzled character, and manages to hold his own in the action scenes.
You can basically see at this point in the film that something is fishy.Without blowing any more plot points, the film's grand finale consists of Peter Weller blowing away an army of "human screamers".The special effects were pretty mediocre and there was barely any horror or terror contained within the dialogue.
Turns out though director Christian Duguay evens out the story and though it still recalls other movies before its time, it still has elements in it that make it have a quality worth watching.The story of Screamers is loosely based off of Second Variety, a short story written by Philip K.
I actually enjoyed the film adaptation more than the story itself.Peter Weller is Joseph A.
I really liked the atmosphere, some nice twists, good story overall, and Peter Weller is great on this one.
People say here that this was a good movie that suffered from a lack of the effects budget, and that it was better than Minority Report.
Well, i won't criticise this movie, it wasn't that bad at all, i'm sure for when it was made it was kewl, there was just nothing there that was interesting.I will give the orginal idea behind this credit, i DID like the idea of "creatures" (i use that word loosely) being set loose in order to kill the enemy and then "evolve" and manage to turn themselves loose upon their creators and then end up killing everything on the planet, not a bad story, pity there wasn't enough effort put into making it what could have been a GREAT story.*WARNING!!* *MINI SPOLIER!!!* *WARNING!!*The acting was ranging from plain bad to quite good, the only problem with this was that after the shooting of the first kid and then the killing of the last N.E.B human, everything just kinda "clicked" into place, it did get kinda dull towards the end and i think everyone just figured out the ending.This movie wasn't soo bad, it was just due to lack of money, i liked the premise of this movie, its just a shame that i didn't like anything else in it, i'm thinking, perhaps someone would do a new version of this and hopefully include some better graphics etc.
Screamers is another low budget sci-fi movie in the vein of Soldier and Spacehunter..
Its no Mad Max but it fares pretty good in my opinion against the majority of the B-movie sci-fi films of this genre that I have seen..
Screamers might not be a high quality science fiction movie but for a 1995 production with a not that big of a budget it isn't bad at all.
Screamers is a well placed B-movie but it could have been more than what made it onto the screen,The movie itself is based on a short story by prolific sci-fi writer Philip K.
Dick, who has been responsible for some inspired sci-fi movie adaptations including "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall",As a sci-fi film "Screamers" is flawed in many ways specially in the end of the film, but it doesn't mean is all bad Peter Weller dose great in this film and honestly is is a very underrated actor.A lot of the flaws in this movie could sum up to the Budget, other Philip K.
Dick stories that were adapted to film ad an enormous Budget compare to this, there are no big spectacular action sequences, in my opinion "Screamers" could have been a lot better than it is.If you are curious check it out, it wont disappoint on being entertaining.
Sure , some of the special effects are little outdated now (and look more like from the 80's) , but overall this movie feels more arty than typical sci-fi Hollywood blockbuster.
It's definitely not a slasher movie (like some reviewers said) , more like a thriller/drama.Peter Weller("Robocop") and Jennifer Rubin turned in great performances.
Like one sequence which is my favorite is when Hendrickson is using a computer in the bunker to discover all the different types of Screamers, it was suspenseful on two counts; one the fact that he has only a limited amount of time to use it and second what information is left in the dark afterward which puts us a step behind and makes the stakes of survival even higher.The story is very good, I wouldn't say the concepts are entirely new but everything done right.
However, this is one of the first and original stories to convey the human/robot social conflicts and was glad to find the film on my video on demand lists.Worth mentioning first is the fine acting by Peter Weller, and I can't help but wonder why he never became more than a cult film actor, he truly could have been a big time action star on par with the other heavyweights of the 90s.
Dick novels had gotten, such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, or Total Recall, but still, Screamers is a story that needed a bigger budget and if it had gotten one, this film would be a classic to be mentioned in the same breath as Dick's other masterpieces.
An ominous atmosphere is created especially in the darker scenes, which have some nice surprise moments and creepy children.Screamers is a slow satisfying paranoia sci-fi with guns and robots on a small budget.
It sounds real familiar all and yes watching "Screamers" is not the most original experience you will ever have but it all works out well nevertheless for the movie and its story and it's an overall really well done movie, that didn't even had too much of a budget to spend.It has the rights looks and feeling for a science-fiction flick.
It has a bit of a dragging middle part, when new characters suddenly get introduced but overall the movie has plenty of redeeming qualities in it to still really consider this a good and also quite enjoyable genre film.I really liked Peter Weller in his role.
I had a good time with this movie myself, and I think others would enjoy it as well.The reason why "Screamers" can be rated as a modest success is a simple one.
Still, the movie has Peter Weller in it and he is always good in this type of role, I can not put my finger on how this movie could have been a lot better, but I know it would not have taken to much..
While I'm glad it was deemed worthy of a fully-fledged cinema release, I have to admit I was as surprised as anyone else at the time - not because it's a bad film, but because it's low-budget sci-fi with a cast from the B-list and below, and let's face it, you're not going to get much of an audience response to a pitch like that.Still, Peter Weller's always been good at doing gruff and resilient, while Roy Dupuis isn't half as annoying as he is in that dodgy Nikita TV series - no, really.
The Terrors of War. Nice little sci-fi flick of the B-category based on a story by Philip K.
Dick (his short story Second Variety) - no masterpiece but entertaining and with a good and dense atmosphere and solid actors.
Screamers takes obvious influence from a whole range of Sci-Fi films, including Aliens, The Terminator and The Thing and somehow manages to bring everything together to form a coherent and exciting movie.
Director Christian Duguay presents a good futuristic atmosphere, which is all the better given the fact that this movie was made before CGI became part and parcel of action films.
Weller makes for a good B-movie lead as although he's no Arnold Schwarzenegger; he looks strong and knows his way around an action scene.
Overall, this film is a good B-movie and while it's certainly no masterpiece, Screamers comes recommended to action and Sci-Fi fans..
This is a very entertaining piece of B-movie sci-fi starring the Robocop himself, Peter Weller.
Peter Weller is also very good, he adds class to this and makes up for some slightly poor acting from some co-stars.The action is always exciting and despite being very cheap there's plenty of destruction and great sets.
Pretty Darn Good For a Low Budget Sci-Fi "B" Movie.
Dick short story, the movie tells the tale of a planet once ravaged by a human war  .
All in all, Screamers is a good movie with Peter Weller at his Sci-Fi best.My vote: 7.
I see some great effects and good performances by Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis who came from Quebec.