Product Details

• Actors: Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk, Christopher Redman
• Directors: Sheldon Wilson
• Writers: Miguel Tejada-Flores, Philip K. Dick, Tom Berry
• Producers: Antony I. Ginnane, Charles W. Fries, Gordon Yang, Josée Bernard
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Cantonese, English, Korean, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001MVYUSE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,773 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Screamers: The Hunting" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

"Now now, there's no need for violence." These words are spoken far too late in Screamers: The Hunting to make a difference. This sci-fi flick wastes no time in building up a high body count, thanks to an energetic approach to gore and a few creative ways of splitting bodies in two. A sequel to the 1996 Screamers, which itself was based on a Philip K. Dick story, Screamers: The Hunting proves that almost any minor action picture can merit a direct-to-DVD sequel. A dozen years have passed since the events of the first film, and a space mission is dispatched to planet Sirius 6B, supposedly to pick up any surviving humans before the entire planet is torched. Unfortunately, the planet's killer robots, thought to be wiped out, have demonstrated a pesky survival sense, and a disconcerting talent for repairing and reconfiguring themselves. This does not bode well for the visiting astronauts--call it Saving Private Ryan meets Tremors. The cast includes Gina Holden (in the Ripley role), sultry foreign offering Jana Pallaske, and the venerable genre mainstay Lance Henriksen, who instantly raises the movie's cred by a hundred percent. While director Sheldon Wilson proves himself a mean propagator of gnarly action sequences, his ability to recognize bad dialogue, or to instruct actors in the proper way to deliver said dialogue, is nil. But dialogue is probably not the point here--unless you're talking about someone standing in the desert, firing a gun at a homicidal robot burrowing through the sand, and shouting, "Screamer!" Which happens a lot. --Robert Horton

Product Description

Inspired by a short story by visionary author Philip K. Dick, Screamers: The Hunting is a mind-shattering sequel to the legendary sci-fi cult thriller! It's been thirteen years since the robotic killing machines known as Screamers destroyed the human population of Sirius 6B. But now a distress signal brings a team of rescuers to the supposedly abandoned planet. Can it be a long-lost colony of human survivors? Or have the Screamers evolved into something even more sinister...half-man/half-machine hybrids that need to escape Sirius 6B to finish their mission: the complete annihilation of the human race?

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gory Slasher Flick, With Sci-Fi Trappings, February 14, 2009

By	H. A Huffman "haumf" (Mt. Prospect, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Inspired by a short story by visionary author Philip K. Dick" - Only if he was on a bad acid trip when he wrote the story. I recommend that people should read the original short story, its very good.

Anyway, this film is the sequel to the decent "Screamers" film, in which Peter Weller stars as a soldier trapped on a planet filled with "crazy killer robots" that dice people up like, well, homicidal robots. The plot twist is that the murderous machines are mutating, becoming more human. Yup, the sequel is another a crazy killer robot film. This time a bunch of victims, er, soldiers land on the planet in response to a distress signal. Chop, chop, chop...

For gore fans, there are many scenes where people get torn up by the crazy killer robots. The rescue team makes the usual stupid mistakes that are typical for films of this type and are soon on the run from the C.K.R. There is a plot twist, not a very clever one, and Lance Hendricksen shows up for some reason near the end (I guess Peter Weller was busy).

Screamers The Hunting is just what you think it is - a direct to video horror film. Similar in quality to the Starship Troopers sequels, this film is not horrible but don't expect much.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars YOU'LL SCREAM ALLRIGHT.........., April 14, 2009

By	Robert F. Powers "show maniac" (Quincy, Ma USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

.......At this idiotic mess of a movie. "Screamers-The Hunting" is the long awaited sequel to the original 1996 "Screamers". The wait wasn't long enough. Essentially just an excuse to show how many ways the screamers,small robotic buzzsaws, can cut,hack and mutilate anything in its path. The plot such as it is involves a distress signal from planet Sirius 6b. I thought Sirius was where Howard Stern broadcasts from. To add to the merriment a meteor storm is heading to Sirius in 6 days to obliterate the planet. In spite of the planets impending doom a group of astro-nuts(misspelled on purpose)head to the doomed planet to investigate the distress signal. Several in the party are slaughtered almost immediately and the rest head back to their ship to leave. Too late, the screamers have emptied their fuel cells. So they venture out again looking for fuel cells on a seemingly empty planet except for the buzzsaws. To cut to the chase they end up in a cave where they meet up with a group of "survivors" and blah blah blah, but they learn the screamers have evolved into even human form. One of the "survivors" attracts the attention of one of the astro-nuts and soon they find a grotto in the cave where they make love. Hmmmm--remember the screamers can pass as human-hmmmm-wonder if this is going to lead to a surprise ending? Hmmmm-I don't want to insert a spoiler here but just imagine--everyone else eventually gets hacked-up and only the love-making duo escape just as the meteor shower hits the planet. After 45 days in hibernation the female realizes she is about to give birth and her companion, the daddy, is a SCREAMER. GASP! The End.

The movie is not boring but the bottom line is-it sucks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable time-passer., September 14, 2009

By	E. Beckstrom (Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Enjoyable time-passer. If you have watched a lot of lower budget sci-fi, you know where they can go wrong and what the decent ones tend to do right. This movie generally gets it right. While it is not as good as the first Screamers, it still has very good special effects, decent acting, and lots of action. There is nothing new here, though, in terms of the first movie - no big twists, no new information is revealed about the Screamers. I can't say I loved the ending, but no doubt some will like how it sets up the inevitable Part III. (Note: If you plan to watch Screamers II because of Lance Henriksen's presence, be aware that he is, disappointingly, only in the flick for about ten minutes.)