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Screamers (1995) (feddit.nl)

THE LAST SCREAM YOU HEAR WILL BE YOUR OWN.

SIRIUS 6B, the year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

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[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fkn love this movie

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Aside from a few inexplicably bad robot bits, this is a really good and underrated movie.

[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

I love this movie. The action is fun but it also has a deeper subtext about consciousness and whether machines can think, etc. It is based on the short story Second Variety by Philip K. Dick.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's really shocking how many Philip K. Dick stories have been made into films. Off the top of my head, the ones I can remember are:

Total Recall (two versions)

Blade Runner

Screamers

A Scanner Darkly

Paycheck

Imposter

The Man in the High Castle (a streaming series, not a film)

The Minority Report

...And I'm sure that I'm missing at least some. If he hadn't died so young, he would have been insanely wealthy from how many times his stories have been adapted into major films.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Being a Philip Dick story gives it a little more credibility, especially if they followed his ideas pretty closely.

I have a love/hate with bad B movies. Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck in slow-mo, wondering if it'll come through and actually be a better story than expected. Like "They Live".

Edit: Looks like PK is one of the screenwriters?

[-] BlackAura@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Watched this as a kid in 1997 or so. I was probably 12 years old. Scared the shit out of me and I had nightmares every now and again for a while.

Great movie.

[-] LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago

A bit of Tremors, a bit of The Thing, with some Aliens sprinkled in there as well. Starring RoboCop himself, Peter Weller.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's some sick miniatures and matte paintings

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Those are live actors

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

A bit of Tremors

Okay I’m sold

a bit of The Thing

Even better!

with some Aliens sprinkled in there as well

Let’s go!!

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have the short story this is based on on Audible. My buddy loves this movie. I've seen it, but don't remember much, even though I know the plot.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

This movie is a weird classic for me. Haven't seen it in YEARS but I miss it.

[-] LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Go watch it again! :)

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 1 points 1 day ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Holy hell that looks utterly awful.

Just my kind of awful B movie though!

[-] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I see those videos online off Russian soldiers running for their lives and think of this movie.

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