Another one of those "futuristic, interplanetary war fought over mining colonies" movies, SCREAMERS isn't half bad. In 2078, a second Cold War breaks out over whether or not it should be legal to mine on other planets. The "good guys" made a secret weapon called SCREAMERS - they're subterranean, screeching, PHANTASM balls that are guided by their victim's heartbeat, victims which they recycle as fuel. As if that didn't sound badass enough, they're evolving too! Suddenly, it looks as if there's a potential end to the whole war, when a transport ship crashes into the "good guys'" front yard, carrying one survivor, a shit load o' weapons, and a nuclear reactor! Well, Commander Joe (who doesn't want to be confused with anyone who gives a damn) and Johhny Gung-Ho (the ship's survivor) go to sign the peace treaty to end the fighting. In the future, you can null radiation by smoking red cigs... Now you can watch your health and look cool doing it! The 2 pick up a lost child (who's actually an evolved SCREAMER), and make it to a smugglers' bunker, where they knock off the SCREAMER boy-bot before it can kill anyone. After making friends with the 3 smugglers, everyone gets paranoid and one of em goes so far as to kill one of his own out of said paranoia. Upon returning to the good guy base, the crew is attacked by an army of SCREAMER orphans, whom they blow all to hell with Plutonium rockets! Commander Joe and his new girlie friend are the only survivors, he slices her hand to test how human she is, and she makes out with him for it?! Chicks never do that when I cut em... bitches... Well, after disintegrating his SCREAMER pal Chuck, his babe (who really IS a SCREAMER), and her evil twin (also a SCREAMER), Joe heads for Earth... with a SCREAMER teddy bear as his hitchhiker! As stated in the beginning, this is pretty much a cookie-cutter ALIEN rip off, featuring only 2 good actors, but the special FX were cool, and there were SOME original elements to it after all. Also, it gives us the interesting image of a piano tied to a guy's butt (listen to the dialogue). Heh Heh.

Sequels: Nope

If You Liked This Flick, Check Out: ALIENS or THE THING