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The year is 2078, the place Sirius 6B.
On a distant mining planet called "Sirius 6B" it has been ravaged by a decade of war, but the scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers.
These robots are designed for one purpose only - to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
However, man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate *all* life.
Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces.
But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.
Based on the short story "Second Variety" penned by Philip K. Dick.
Film
Many of the week's top shows are featured in our new On The Couch weekly podcast, which looks at what we've watched and all that's best in the coming seven days.
(1995) 
(3 Star)
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