Screamers
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding…
- Director:Christian Duguay
- Genre:Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Runtime:104 minutes
Cast
Peter Weller : Joe Hendricksson
Roy Dupuis : Becker
Jennifer Rubin : Jessica Hanson
Andrew Lauer : Ace Jefferson (as Andy Lauer)
Charles Edwin Powell : Ross (as Charles Powell)
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Screamers is set in the year 2078 on the planet Sirius 6B, a once thriving commercial hub and mining colony now reduced to a wasteland by a prolonged war between the colony’s miners, called the Alliance, and their former employers, the New Economic Block. Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created artificially intelligent “screamers” that were subterranean, self-replicating, crawlers. As screamers are unable to identify friend from foe, Alliance scientists developed a wrist-worn device called a Tab, which renders its wearer invisible by broadcasting the wearer’s heartbeat and pulse out of rhythm.
After a prolonged and brutal war, both Alliance and N.E.B. forces on Sirius 6B are exhausted, poorly supplied and undermanned. The Alliance’s commanding officer, Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller), gets word from Alliance Command on Earth that negotiations are currently underway with the N.E.B.; similarly, a lone N.E.B. soldier killed by a group of screamers was carrying a message guaranteeing safe passage through N.E.B. territory for two Alliance officers in order to discuss the formation of a peace treaty. However, when an Alliance troop transport vessel from Earth crashes near the Alliance bunker, the only survivor (“Ace” Jefferson, played by Andrew Lauer), informs Hendricksson that the message received from Earth was a lie. Hendricksson concludes that Alliance command had been lying to the Sirius 6B contingent for years, intent on simply abandoning them on the ruined planet.
Hendricksson decides to accept the N.E.B offer for peace and heads out to meet the enemy commander with Jefferson. They soon discover a young boy clutching a teddy bear, saying his name is David and that he has been scavenging the ruins to survive. However, he is shot by an N.E.B. soldier, revealing that David is a “type 3″ screamer capable of impersonating a human. Three N.E.B. soldiers, Becker (Roy Dupuis), Ross (Charles Powell), and Jessica (Jennifer Rubin) explain that everyone else in their N.E.B. contingent was wiped out after their patrol teams had unwittingly brought a David model screamer inside the base.
The group heads to the N.E.B. command center but finds only the empty building and many large pools of blood. As the group argues, Becker kills Ross, claiming he was a screamer, though it is clear that he was not. Finding nothing left, Hendricksson decides to return to the Alliance base. However, when they return, they find that “type 3″ screamers have wiped out everyone. As dozens of type 3s pour out of the bunker’s entrance, Hendricksson fires a miniature nuclear warhead into the bunker’s entrance, obliterating the screamers. Becker appears to have been seriously injured in the blast, prompting Jefferson to rush to his aid. Becker kills Jefferson, revealing that Becker is also a screamer (presumably a type 2, which mimics a wounded soldier). He is killed as Hendricksson and Jessica escape. Read more
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