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Screamers

Year:
Duration:
108 min
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.4
Director:
Christian Duguay
Awards:
3 nominations
Details
Country: Canada
Release Date: 1996-01-26
Filming Locations: Joliette, Québec, Canada
Earnings
Budget: $20,000,000
Gross: $5,781,885 (USA)¥48,688,300 (Japan)
Cast
Actor
Character
Jennifer Rubin
Jennifer Rubin
Screamers
Peter Weller
Joe Hendricksson
Roy Dupuis
Becker
Andrew Lauer
Ace Jefferson
Charles Edwin Powell
Ross
Ron White
Chuck Elbarak
Michael Caloz
David
Liliana Komorowska
Landowska
Jason Cavalier
Leone
Leni Parker
Cpl. McDonald
Sylvain Massé
N.E.B. Soldier
Bruce Boa
Secretary Green
Tom Berry
Technician
Henry Ramer
Screamers Crawl Narration (voice)
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Trivia
At one point Hendricksson refers to someone sarcastically as "a real Perky Pat." This is a reference to the short story "The Days of Perky Pat" and the novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch." Both were written by Philip K. Dick, who wrote the short story "Second Variety" on which "Screamers" is based.
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Early versions of the screenplay were titled "Claw" in reference to the villainous robots, which are called "claws" in the original Philip K. Dick short story "Second Variety" instead of "screamers."
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In the original short story by P. K. Dick the plot takes place on Earth, instead of Sirius 6B. Originally, Screamers were designed by Americans troops hiding in the moon to destroy the Russian Army after the Soviet Union had completely wiped out the United States.
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Goofs
When Hendricksson is the last one running out of Richard Cooper's command bunker, he falls in a large puddle of water, however, once he gets up, he is not wet.
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(at around 47 mins) Just after the boy is shot, Becker says, "Who would shoot a snot-nosed boy with a hard luck story?" and there is a vehicle moving in the background, high up on a ridge, from right to left between Becker's and Ross's heads.
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The message from Secretary Green to Joe and Chuck turns out to be a virtual-reality projection. But when Secretary Green first appears, doors open to allow him to enter - and we can even see the shadow he casts on the floor.
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Quotes
Ross: Once it gets inside, that's when the killin' starts.
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Ace Jefferson: Are they alive?
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Hendricksson: What are we doing? What in God's name are we doing Chuck?
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Faq
Q
Is this in the same universe as Blade Runner(1982)?
A
possibly, becouse its the same author
Q
Why don't the higher-numbered types of Screamers appear to be more advanced than the lower-numbered types?
A
First of all, nothing in the film suggests that the order of the "types" is anything but chronological: a Type 3 Screamer is simply developed later than a Type 2 and is not necessarily therefore more advanced. Although we can generally expect a trend toward more advanced capabilities in higher-numbered types, if the Screamers develop a type that e.g. imitates one of the rock bugs we see midway through the film, its "type" will presumably be whatever the next available integer is, whether it's more capable than previous types or not.However, the film does make clear that the trend is in fact toward increasing capabilities.The Type 1 Screamer is the one that burrows under the sand. There are at least two variants of the "Type 1 Revised": the one Hendricksson examines at the beginning of the film, and the reptile-like one encountered at NEB Headquarters an hour into the film. (The one that "looks like an animal" may be a third.) The Type 2 is said to be a "wounded soldier" (although it should be noted that the only reliable source of this information is Ross; the others turn out to be Screamers) and the Type 3 is revealed by the Screamers' own tag to be the David Edward Dearing model. Becker himself may or may not be a Type 2, and if he is one, he may be an evolved, advanced, "revised" version that is more capable than the original "wounded soldier." It seems likely that Jessica is a Type 4, and there's no telling about the teddy bear in the final shot -- perhaps it's a Type 5, or pehaps it's a 4 and Jessica is a 5.
Q
How does the Screamer know about Point Reyes?
A
Chuck Elbarak and Hendricksson have a conversation early in the film about Point Reyes, and the Screamer with Chuck's face appears to know about it. How?That's the Type 2 Screamer that posed as Becker. He has put himself back together. He takes faces by peeling them off of his victims. It's not impossible to think that Chuck was tortured for info before the Type 3 Davids killed everyone in the base.
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Jennifer Rubin
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