Screamers (1996)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 21
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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 8
No consensus yet.
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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
Jan 26, 1996 Wide
Sep 6, 2000
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Bruce Boa
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Jason Cavalier
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Roy Dupuis
Becker -
Liliana Komorowska
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Andrew Lauer
Ace -
Henry Ramer
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Jennifer Rubin
Jessica -
Peter Weller
Joseph Hendricksson -
Ron White
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Tom Berry
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Leni Parker
Corporal McDonald -
Charles Powell
Ross -
Michael Caloz
David -
Sylvain Masse
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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (21) | DVD (3)
Based on a short story by the great nutball sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Screamers is more like a high-pitched rip-off of Alien.
Top CriticA fun, fast-paced futuristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy.
The design and effects teams have lent scale and impact to the futuristic locations and sets. If only Duguay's flashy, aimless direction had succeeded in filling these barren wastes and antiseptic interiors with something resembling human life.
Until it succumbs to one cliche too many, Screamers, which was directed by Christian Duguay, does an efficient job of generating a stomach-knotting tension.
There's nothing exhilarating or enjoyable in any of this.
Screamers oozes atmosphere. It's a dark film that borrows heavily from the likes of the Alien films, Dune, Blade Runner, and John Carpenter's updated The Thing.
not as cool as it could be
Sacrifices last traces of plausibility and common sense for the sake of "surprise" twist that any experienced viewer could have predicted ages ago.
The movie ends with a weak gimmick, and leaves you with the feeling that it could have done better had it had more trust in itself and its own concepts.
Audience Reviews for Screamers
Super Reviewer
It's a blast.
Super Reviewer
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- Ace: Beg your pardon, Sir. What are they?
- Joseph Hendricksson: It's a sword, Jefferson. Take a look. They call it a Screamer. It was developed for us by an alliance on Earth to neutralize the war on the ground here.
- Ace: How do you know it's dead?
- Joseph Hendricksson: When they yank this brain out.
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- Joseph Hendricksson: Where do you go when there's nowhere else to go?
- Jessica: ...home.
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