Screamers
Directed by Christian Duguay6.329%45%6.2
A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.
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- RichardOctober 19, 2025Saw this one on TV sometime in the late ’90s, during one of those gritty sci-fi marathons where the signal fuzz added to the atmosphere. Peter Weller plays a military commander on a war torn mining planet, trying to broker peace while dodging killer machines called “Screamers”, autonomous weapons that were supposed to protect humans but evolved into something far nastier. The concept is pure Philip K. Dick: paranoia, identity and technology gone rogue. The execution? Rough around the edges, but full of charm. The landscape is bleak, the bunkers claustrophobic and the Screamers themselves, burrowing, blade-spinning death bots are genuinely creepy. And just when you think you’ve figured out the rules, the machines start mimicking humans. It’s not a blockbuster, but it’s got atmosphere. The effects are practical and gritty, the pacing builds tension and the twisty ending sticks with you. I liked it enough to remember it decades later. It’s the kind of movie that made adult years feel grimy, tense and quietly haunting, with a dash of ’90s cable TV grit.
- Péntek SzabolcsJanuary 14, 2026From today's perspective, apart from some rather weak trick shots, it is a particularly strong and good film. It is very underrated.
- bandikotoOctober 19, 2025Nice space opera with a couple of Dickian elements.
- marshalseaMarch 12, 2025Interesting idea, but real pacing issues
Screamers Trivia
Screamers was released on September 8, 1995.
Screamers was directed by Christian Duguay.
Screamers has a runtime of 1h 48m.
Screamers was produced by Tom Berry, Franco Battista.
The key characters in Screamers are Colonel Hendricksson (Peter Weller), Jessica (Jennifer Rubin), Becker (Roy Dupuis).
Screamers is rated R.
Screamers is a Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller film.
Screamers has an audience rating of 4.5 out of 10.