In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company, known as the New Economic Bloc (NEB), and the Alliance, a group of former mining and science personnel. Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created and deployed Autonomous Mobile Swords (AMS) — artificially intelligent self-replicating machines that hunt down and kill NEB soldiers on their own. They are nicknamed "screamers" because of a high-pitched noise they emit as they attack. Screamers track targets by their heartbeats, so Alliance soldiers wear "tabs" which broadcast a signal canceling out the wearer's heartbeat and rendering them "invisible" to the machines. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Sci Fi, Thriller |
Country: | Canada, Japan, United States |
Produced By: | JosÉE Bernard, Antony I. Ginnane, Stefan Wodoslawsky, Tom Berry, Masao Takiyama, Charles W. Fries, Franco Battista |
Directed By: | Christian Duguay |
Written By: | Miguel Tejada-Flores, Dan O'Bannon, Philip K. Dick |
Cast: | Liliana Komorowska, Jennifer Rubin, Charles Edwin Powell, Michael Caloz, Henry Ramer, Leni Parker, Ron White, Peter Weller, Bruce Boa, Tom Berry, Sylvain Massé, Roy Dupuis, Andrew Lauer, Jason Cavalier |
In Theaters: | Jan 26, 1996 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 48 minutes |
Production: | Triumph Films, Fuji Eight Company Ltd., Fries Film Group |
Box Office: | $5,781,885 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |