Western Movies Month 4 - Shanghai Noon

I didn’t plan on the first three Western Movie Month reviews to all be about relatively dark, serious movies, but that’s how it turned out. While “The Searchers”, “True Grit 2010” and “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” are all very good movies, the Western is capable of much more than their shared dark subject matter. Westerns can be just as fun as any other genre. That’s what I was planning for…

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Horror Movie Review: Screamers (1995)

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.

Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, directed by Christian Duguay. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1953 short story “Second Variety”. 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 (N.E.B.), and “The Alliance”, a group of former mining and science personnel. After miners discovered that their…

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Screamers

‘The last scream you hear will be your own.’

Screamers is a 1995 American science fiction horror feature film directed by Christian Duguay (The Hunger TV series; Scanners II: The New Order; Scanners III: The Takeover) from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon (Lifeforce; Return of the Living Dead; Alien; et al) and Miguel Tejada-Flores (Frankenstein’s Army; Screamers 2; Fright Night Part 2; et al),…

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