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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $9.95 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 26 January, 1996 DVD Release : 29 July, 1998 |
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| I have to admit, I had a lot of fun with this film! Philip K. Dick"s novels were a bit hit-and-miss ("Blade Runner", or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" being the seminal novel of note), but this film, based on his novel "The Second Variety", is soooo entertaining in a "B" movie kind of way.
Earth has been divided into two camps: The New Economic Bloc and The Rebel Alliance. The NEB apparently has a "slash and burn" policy to space exploration, leaving dead wasteland in the wake of their search for power in the universe. The Rebel Alliance fights the NEB to stop their unchecked "Scorched Earth" policy. Enter into the fray one Col. Joseph Hendrickson, the Rebel Alliance commander on the planet Sirius 6B, an outpost in the hind-end of space, keeping the NEB in check, on Sirius 6B. Our good Colonel has a few nasty friends called "Screamers", robotic mechanized Ginsu knives that protect the outpost. One fine sunny day, a transport ship crash-lands on Sirius 6B. Right on the doorstep (literally) of the Rebel Alliance outpost. The only survivor is a raw recruit with a deadly talent with small arms. Shortly after, an NEB soldier arrives at the outpost with a message for Col. Hendrickson. He doesn't get very far, as the Screamers do to him what you might see at a Beni-Hana Restaurant! PEACE! The NEB wants peace on Sirius 6B!! The only catch is, the Colonel has to go to THEIR base! Who better to go with, than a grunt who can drive tacks with any firearm you put in front of him! On the way there, they run across a boy who apparently has survived alone for some time. Things are not as they seem, however, as the boy reveals himself to be a Screamer! That is not the only surprise, as the boy does not care who's side the Colonel happens to be on! In their "Evolutionary Drive", the Screamers have lost all memory of who they were fighting for. ALL humans are fair game. What transpires next is pure Philip K. Dick!! There were moments in the film that were a little over-the-top, a few dead spots, too, but this is what makes Sci-fi so great, with a bit of "technobabble", anything can be explained(look at "Star Trek"! They're the worst offenders!)! I particularly liked the Screamers, like little Happy Faces, or "Pacmen" with very sharp teeth! If you are looking for some fun, entertaining Sci-fi, you could do worse than Screamers! There isn't much in the way of extra features on the DVD, just the film. The transfer was done well, though. |
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