Screamers

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