Screamers [dvd] / Triumph Films presents in association with Fuji Eight Co., Ltd. ; produced by Tom Berry and Franco Battista ; screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Miguel Tejada-Flores ; directed by Christian Duguay.
Format:
[dvd] /
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer. Based upon the short story "Second variety" by Philip K. Dick. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Summary:
The year is 2078. The man is rebel Alliance Commander Col. Joseph Hendricksson, assigned to protect the Sirius 6B outpost from ravage and plunder at the hands of the New Economic Bloc. His state-of-the-art weaponry is known as Screamers: man-made killing devices programmed to eliminate all enemy life forms. Screamers travel underground, their intent to kill announced by ear-piercing shrieks. They dissect their victims with precision, then eradicate all traces of the corpse.
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