Robot Protectors Hollow Out Their Human Creators and Wear Them Like Flesh Suits | Movie Recap

[@foofoo3344]

Fun Fact: It is mentioned in the sequel movie that Joe realized that the teddy bear was a Screamer while he was on transit into Earth's atmosphere and decided to burn his spacecraft during re-entry to prevent the evolved Screamer from landing on Earth and wiping out the human race.

[@movieplots]

Can't wait to watch it and that's exactly how I would want Joe to go out. Not just drowning in a cryo-pod like some people...

[@KazeMunashii]

@@movieplots how is having newt in another alien film a positive thing?

[@tehmarok]

How do the screamers find corpses when they need a heartbeat to detect targets? 🤔

[@foofoo3344]

@@tehmarok They've evolved and have become very smart.

[@tehmarok]

@@foofoo3344 but they still need sounds when in the first form, which corpses don't make.

[@louiskeep1832]

Gets in space shuttle and returns to Earth, thinks f**king robots man. Gets home and starts a new job as a police officer in Detroit.....

[@Aidar77]

And then to become a robot and shoot people's smelly parts.🤣

[@02JAN1970]

I see what you've done there sir. Nicely done!

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Names Murphy, Alex Murphy, friends call me Murph...

[@andreykuzmin4317]

You kniw what? Yes. This is my head canon now. Murphy is a former rebel, who ran back to Earth from androids only to become one.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Then becomes Admiral Marcus in the federation.

[@denniswiggins3816]

This was an underrated movie in my opinion. Brings up a lot of questions about using A.I. and drones in future wars.

[@TheGreatJon]

Agreed. Tops movie, only let down by it's budget. But still incredibly enjoyable, and created an interesting world .

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

i never realized they were organic. wouldn't they smell? lol ai channel helped me understand a movie i saw 20 years ago

[@jetrexdesign]

I feel like Screamers is up for a remake. It'd be very topical these days. The only change would be they'd need air and ground Screamer variants.

[@TheTrueGlaukos]

Within the first couple of years when AI was starting to generate text, people already tried to make it self replicate. People learned nothing from the countless movies like this except how to run directly at the red flags.

[@strikezero01]

plot twist: Teddy bear didn't kill him instead stay with him for years (still pretending as an ordinary teddy bear) until he died old in natural cause, Teddy bear ended as young Mark Wahlberg's best friend named TED

[@coffee_drinker2912]

Of course you posted that.

[@ricardogalvan1031]

@@coffee_drinker2912 It was the only sane thing for him to post

[@movieplots]

🤣 Giovanni Ribisi was just a David trying to get him back.

[@explorer47422]

The fact that both Chuck and Jessica were Screamers the entire time and were so convincing they just don't recognise each other anymore, hence just ending up killing one another. Also just happily helping to destroy the Type 3s, sounds like some weird robot civil war

[@mpittard21]

Chuck wasnt a screamer the whole time. He literally tells his 'boss' that he is just wearing the skin of Chuck.

[@BrockLee3]

Screamers attack anything with a heart-beat...but, carry off dead people/animals; and, ignore the loud, heavy boot-steps.

[@movieplots]

Even the Mobile Swords had revised chips in them. They 'should' only attack anything with a heartbeat.

[@umngyr]

makes sense. Avoid friendly fire.

[@Mr_Bibbles]

Movies back then were so fucking awesome.

[@ChickensAndGardening]

Philip K. Dick imagined this scenario way back in 1953. The one thing he got wrong was thinking it would take place in 2078. That's 54 years from today, and it seems highly unlikely we'll have interstellar colonies by then. 2278, maybe. But as for killer robots...that's almost a reality now!

[@mgtowmonger2729]

we have killer robots now. they're called drones.

[@danieldorn9989]

It could be Earth in 2078

[@michaelnance8319]

If Mankind didn’t have so many wars, Human would already had colonies on the Moon and Mars by now. But Civilization like Babylon and the Eastern Roman fell apart and Christianity set the world back by 800 years. If any of the key factors weren’t taken out, then by the time of the middle renaissance a European country would have sent a man mission to the moon by then and right now here in 2024 Earth would have already Colonize half the solar system. But that is not are current reality as of now.

[@ChickensAndGardening]

@@michaelnance8319 I'm willing to put the pin as recently as 1914. If Europe hadn't erupted in fratricidal war, and Japan hadn't pummeled China and prevented the Republic from getting established, there would be millions more people alive, maybe more prosperity globally, and we'd have put more resources into peaceful scientific advancement. The Communists might not have taken over Russia and China. There'd be more freedom and capital for investment. So who knows? Just my theory.

[@anuvisraa5786]

in the original story it war europe in a war whit the sobiets

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

When I first saw this film, back in the days of VHS rental, it knocked me sideways as I had just finished reading the short story a few days earlier. It's a really old story written in the 60s I think. And in the book the story took place on a post apocalyptic Earth. The more you know.

[@KageNoTora74]

I went out and saw it in a theater.

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

Yeah I read the short story YEARS ago! Holy cow I almost forgot about that.

[@EnigmaHood]

This movie is underrated! Great movie, albeit with lower production values, but it has Peter Weller!

[@saturn2fire]

True!!! One of 90's hidden Sci-Fi Gems! Glad it had a cult following and hoped it can be continued in the 2020's.

[@Aidar77]

5 minutes of this movie are better than the whole trash that Holywood produces in a year these days.

[@Timberwolftrass]

Strong disagree. I watched Alien Romulus recently and greatly enjoyed it. If you can't find enjoyment in anything that is being made nowadays, that's a you problem.

[@Aidar77]

@@Timberwolftrass You know why the original Alien stood out as a slasher film? It’s because every character wasn’t the stereotypical idiot . Everyone’s decision made sense based on their rank on the ship and wasn’t illogical. Ripley refuses to let Kane onboard because of quarantine rules but Ash does it because of his programming. Textbook example is they have to go find the cat in the engine room otherwise he’ll keep showing up on the scanner while they’re trying to find the xenomorph. You actually care about every character who dies because they make logical decisions, they’re not just generic horror movie cannon fodder. Now tell me where is the logic in Alien Romulus?

[@ICU1337]

No its not. This movie is terrible, I semi remember it from growing up as a kid.

[@Aidar77]

@@ICU1337 bud, if this movie is terrible to you there is nothing else you need to say about who you are.

[@Timberwolftrass]

​@@Aidar77 Oh yeah? How much logic was there in Kane shoving his face into a freaky, foreboding alien egg or the gang deciding to split the party and send off Brett alone after the cat knowing a freaky alien creature was running about? So please spare me with your bullshit. Finding flaws and nitpicking something is easy. Super easy. Especially if you're actively hunting for flaws to nitpick. If you find yourself unable to turn that off however, unable to simply sit back and just enjoy a movie for what it is... That's a you problem. Last word: Had Alien not been made in 1979 and would have be made today instead, same movie and everything, you'd be among the first dipshits who'd go "this movie makes no sense, there's no logic, it sucks".

[@spaceman9599]

In the far future of humanity, the final four survivors get obsessed playing imposter

[@3RAN7ON]

I Remember watching this movie when I was a little kid, it was one of my favorites! There is a twist at the end that blew my little mind 😂 you may not I want to watch the end of this video if you don't want a spoiler. The sequel's not that great though.

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

Somebody else already spoiled it in the comments

[@KageNoTora74]

I was old enough to go out drinking as per US law when Screamers was released in theaters.

[@Praxographist]

loved this movie and watched it so many tims as a kid. I appreciated the worldbuilding in particular.

[@ivantuma7969]

The sets and backdrop paintings in this movie were truly breathtaking (in the style of something from OMNI magazine covers). While not some limit-less budget masterpiece, it is an underrated classic and Peter Weller carried the show. My favorite line: "my god, you're beautiful..." after seeing Jennifer Rubin undress (and he meant it).

[@ImperialDiecast]

if any flick needs a remake, it is this one.

[@h.a.9880]

The idea of self-replicating AI-controlled drones that litter battlefields seems way less far fetched than when the movie was made. That is to say, this movie is even better today.

[@MajinLiveTV]

I finally understand why an entire generation of kids grew up with trust issues.

[@opo3628]

For a very long time the *only* things I knew about this movie were its title, that it's horror, and also that it's pretty good for what it is. I was today-years-old when I finally found out what the movie is actually about.

[@thousandyoung]

At the Middle it turns into "The Thing" with Robots.

[@StevenSiew2]

This movie feels like a Phillip K Dick novel.

[@movieplots]

It is! A short story called 'Second Variety' set entirely on Earth. (Space was fashionable in 95')

[@cmd062]

It's a PKD short story

[@EnigmaHood]

Felt the same way about Total Recall, Blade Runner, and Minority Report

[@lordterra1377]

This movie actually has some really interesting ideas. Also the backdrops look amazing.

[@keennickolas8575]

It is sooo weird ... I had seen this movie MANY times in the past! We had recorded it with VHS-Tape back in the days ... I cannot remember so many scenes from the start O.O

[@chrtra392]

LOL. Glad that I get to watch these Cliff Notes versions vs wasting 90 minutes figuring out that someone got high and watched Tremors, Terminator, and The Thing back to back to back.

[@GB-gf3dm]

I recall this film. It has a terrific action sequence / close combat fight near the film's end I think. Been a long time but I remember enjoying it thoroughly.

[@icepic21]

"they easily get set on fire, but begin taking out saw blades, so Ace loads up the mini-nuke and Joe fires it" YET YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IT WAS NOTHING AT ALL.

[@movieplots]

What's a little radiation on Sirius 6B 😅

[@RD-lt3ht]

I've not heard or read of anyone saying this, but surely P.K.Dick's "Second Variety" must've been an inspiration equal to Harlan Ellison's "Soldier" for Cameron's Terminator and especially the T-800...bunker-infiltrating kill-bots that pass for human.

[@movieplots]

The Tolkien of Sci-Fi

[@garysnook3591]

this is one of my list of favorites.😊👍

[@bengonzales1182]

I thought this was a very underrated movie, has great atmosphere.

[@The_Comedian556]

Screamers, great film!

[@charlespwnage5435]

movie is screamers. its a good movie just watch it fully

[@bobdobalina8910]

FYI The Bear SURVIVED and it now plays Five Nights at Freddys.

[@Exmachin]

This Movie was ahead of it's time!

[@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266]

OH Cool ! ........ So this wasn't a strange Fever Dream, i though i had 30 years ago. Gonna see if i can find it to watch, All i saw was like the last 30 minutes maybe.

[@Mitkawatch]

Here have a cigarette it will counteract the radiation now have some whiskey to calm down! Epic

[@jacara1981]

The reason isn't unknown for why they take corpses. They use them for power, it does get mentioned in the film i believe. The second movie is kinda cool when we see the actual storage facility and manufacturing plant for the screamers on the planet. Its all offline because they ran out of power.

[@cicitrout6266]

I always loved this movie but the Jessica falls in love part just ruins it! Loved the reveal that the Teddy Bear was the unknown type awesome!

[@movieplots]

AI falling in love was a big thing (so was space)

[@mikewazowski350]

I remember this movie. I thought a good counter weapon against screamers would be trained zombies.

[@DanielRuiz-oq9cy]

Fun Fact....Robert Crumb illustrated the covers and misc. of the Spanish translation editions of the PKD books.

[@Vamroc]

"Show's Joe the underground" as the actress takes her shirt off 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThisNameIsBanned]

Overall kind of a cool story with low budget.

[@umdadvocate]

A really good flick

[@LeadAsbestos84]

Underrated movie

[@tmcm8159]

If chuck was so smart than how'd he not notice that the kid screamers all look the same everytime they came.

[@movieplots]

I think they let just one in and it opened the door to a flood.

[@platinums99]

i hope they never remake this film. terrifying

[@matthewmolnar1285]

I really like Screamers.

[@MbisonBalrog]

The sequel pretty good too

[@jamaldominicbarr7379]

Screamers has a sequel? Wow

[@michalurbanful]

Robots Wear Human Flesh Suits? Aaah, Necron flayed ones. 😀

[@pauljonze]

Secretary Green hilariously tried to order a Waldorf Salad in Fawlty Towers many moons ago

[@movieplots]

I think we just ran out of Waldorfs

[@BLUEWOLFJAPAN]

OH SHIT I REMEMBER THIS! I remember the kid robot.

[@eisenhorn5494]

They cry in pain

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

LMAO at the "revised" chip.

[@craineyfit8619]

This movie is awesome!

[@infinitesimotel]

The violence in movies has become so unintentionally comical in it's overblown attempts to appear shocking and "for real". Irony has now hung it's hat and left the building. Ultimately though, they are just movies.

[@Arvyn992]

I remember how to spot a human Screamer

[@uhtred7860]

"....radiation on serious six" 🤣🤣 Oh, text to voice, you so funny.

[@Getoverhere666]

What does it mean? A penis problem? Didn't get it

[@dutchvanderbilt9969]

This movie actually reminds me of a short story that I read during school.

[@movieplots]

Second Variety by any chance?

[@dutchvanderbilt9969]

@movieplots if I'm being completely honest it's been so long I can't remember the name of it. I just remember the basic premise of it.

[@movieplots]

@@dutchvanderbilt9969 That's the Philip K. Dick story that this takes from.

[@dutchvanderbilt9969]

@movieplots That might be it

[@patrickrobinson545]

Really cool movie!

[@jiltsmultitheoryjilt415]

Whats the name of this movie? I've been trying to find it for years and it never comes up under screamers

[@ryonalionthunder]

Screamers (1995 film)

[@zarithevill]

Johnnie walker red during an apocalypse? Understandable

[@Fergusius]

I only just now noticed that they are playing (wrongly but still....) the Royal Game of Ur :D

[@movieplots]

It's also an exact replica of the oldest board ever discovered (dated 2500BC) in the cemetery at Ur, Iraq. (your comment opened up a rabbit hole)

[@altar7885]

I remember seeing movie this but I hadn't noticed the screamer teddy bear..

[@0megacron]

Not surprising - it's just a "blink and you'll miss it" scene at the very end where the teddy bear moves on its own.

[@verbosedy9947]

@@0megacron Yeah that always bugged me and didn't make any sense. In one scene Weller's character was grasping it tightly and interacting with it for awhile. Why couldn't he feel the metal and switches inside? Then I remembered: this is a movie and it was wearing plot armor.

[@andrewkendall2191]

One of my favorite movies

[@lyrabonbon5931]

Pure schitzo movie, i love it

[@idiom2805]

So, nobody thought it would be a good idea to keep track of the self-replicating robots?

[@gottfriedosterbach3907]

If they could track them so could the enemy.

[@idiom2805]

@gottfriedosterbach3907 I meant keeping track of their operations and production.

[@movieplots]

The NEB already won the war so the Alliance just made Screamers as a Hail Mary. Or at least to take down NEB from beyond the grave.

[@KarolyssjL-gi7le]

In the book, the screamers reach the moon base..

[@magic666z]

i love this movie

[@babagalacticus]

this is a screen adaptation of PHILIP K. DICK'S "SECOND VARIETY" (1953).

[@martinbarba7689]

Based in the second veriety of philiph Dick

[@CroshVine]

He takes off his bracelet to relax? Just let him go.

[@chaosmachines934]

i love this horror movies they mess up so good

[@luismiguelriveros9377]

Second Variety..Philip K.Dickk

[@michaelumali8363]

they should of had magnets

[@DepravedMorgath]

The Alliance troops use Combination Assault-Rifle/Flamethrowers to combat enemy infantry, And fend of bunker rushes as with the Screamers doing their grisly task, The Alliance have no real need to do more then just wait and eventually mop up enemy resistance. The NEB use Multi-shot Grenade launchers/Rifles to deal with screamers. This is because sand and dirt makes it hard to penetrate and damage the internal components of Screamers, Hence the N.E.B. Grenade Launchers. The downside is that screamers adapted far too quickly, While the forces on Sirius 6B were all but abandoned and forgotten about as their respective forces placed their eyes on another more resource heavy planet.

[@sightt]

Good movie.

[@farrinlandmesser]

What's it cled

[@sightt]

@farrinlandmesser Screamers

[@mrmm1110]

this is Metro Last Light on machine steroid

[@infinitesimotel]

So this is what became of Murphy?...

[@WretchedEgg528]

Lol skin bandits. Just another monday in Kenshi.

[@yomomma2623]

necron flayed ones?

[@marcusegan8682]

Man, I remember the CG looking a bit better than that. Time is a cruel mistress.

[@Acesahn]

Ah, Screamers.

[@RiccardoSacco-d8t]

Movie ?

[@movieplots]

Screamers 1995

[@keennickolas8575]

9:16 ... omg only 40 years from now Ö.Ö

[@berner]

Great, now instead of recaps you're flooding youtube with "Movie Plots".

[@agenttexx]

It was a good short story too.

[@theunlikeyou]

The ending of the second one stuck with me for a long time after watching it.

[@movieplots]

For good reason I hope...

[@Jmaul85]

The title reminds me of FNAF. Wonder why?

[@ShevaiAsan]

They don't hollow out anyone; the manufacturing unit is advancing and creating better models. You see them evolve in the film; first just the standard ones in the sand, then rodent ones, then copying adult men soldiers, then children(because no one wants to leave a child to fend for itself), and then ultimately, a seductive female for obvious reasons. They explain this in the film, so the clickbait title needs to be changed; because these things aren't using anyone as flesh suits.

[@movieplots]

"Do you know how we got it off him? Just like your buddy Chuck we ripped it off! He was screaming something about God and Jesus. l took his face. He didn't have much use for it but l like your face better."

[@ShevaiAsan]

@@movieplots Right, but the chassis is already there; they just took the faces because it offered credibility to them being an actual person. It's basically Terminator. In the one scene, there were hundreds of little boys, all wearing the same clothes, with the same little teddy bears; all marching toward the same base. They stopped doing that, because the machines realized that trick was figured out and couldn't work anymore. They aren't hollowing out anyone to fit into their bodies; the first stages were them mimicking rats(animal mimicry, but without wearing rat skins); then they realized they had to do more; they evolved accordingly and learned better tactics to blend in for stealth kills/assaults; once one gets inside a base, it can single everyone out and start picking people off, or opening the doors for more to come inside; all while gathering intel for the main machine to produce better replicants.(looks, variations, speech; and finally, emotions with the final, seductive female model.)

[@movieplots]

@@ShevaiAsan I just mean 'Hollow Out' in this context as "remove the insides of". Definitely should have used the word "mimic" somewhere though 🤔

[@ShevaiAsan]

@@movieplots Absolutely; they were evolving their mimicry technique to understand what worked and what didn't. =]

[@nictrax]

...It's a Type 2!

[@haterade3.029]

1980s special effects lol

[@scotthultin7769]

14 👍's up movie plots thank you for sharing 🤗

[@peger]

i remember this movie

[@jdsim9173]

No screamer wears a human as a flesh suit.

[@movieplots]

A Type-2 wears NEB commander Cooper's skin and calls itself Becker. Even said Coop was screaming for God when it was removed. Then later puts Chuck's skin on a different chassis and tries to take Joe's.

[@jdsim9173]

@@movieplots You are assuming it wears skin, but the many "child" screamers all have the same "skin" showing they can manufacture it.

[@movieplots]

@@jdsim9173 Sorry, I got it wrong. It was Chuck screaming when the Type-2 took his skin to wear. "We ripped it off. He was screaming. l took his face. He didn't have much use for it"

[@kendonl.taylor5111]

Is Screamers really a japanese movie?

[@movieplots]

It was Triumph Films (US) in association with Fuji Eight Co. (Japan) who also distributed Split, The Lawnmower Man, and some bad anime... not sure why they're never mentioned on Wiki.

[@JobeStroud]

So. Screamers.

[@festungkurland9804]

lmao

[@BrigadoonZyphoon]

Wow! Looks like 90's scy-fi channel slop! Congratulations AI! (that's the joke cause this is actually a real movie)

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

Id take the god Jessica with me

[@caretakeradjei2414]

Nr. 1 Das Pendler Paket. 😅

[@doomsdoor]

Right off the bat it makes no sense, the screamers target anything with a heartbeat, but how do they see the corpses then?

[@movieplots]

I think the AI is completely sentient from the beginning it's just pretending while plotting. "He's got a bracelet let him think it works"

[@toyhaunter8260]

@@movieplots Other possibility is the heartbeat signals to them "dismantle this target", which is why they are so aggressive rather than simply stealing them on the spot, but once there isn't a heartbeat they switch it to "capture this material"

[@benjaminwigley4132]

SCREAMERS!!!!!