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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

1291.0. "Screamers" by NETCAD::BRANAM (Steve, Hub Products Engineering, LKG2-2, DTN 226-6043) Fri Jan 19 1996 15:13

Saw an ad for this movie on the TV at the gym this morning. Something to do with
people battling robot worm things that skim under the surface of the ground.
Looked like a video game, big on effects, short on story. During the 2 seconds
that credits were on screen, I saw "by Philip K. Dick". Anybody know anything
more? The only story of his that comes to mind is "Autofac", except in that
story the self-replicating robots had killed off all the people and were engaged
in never-ending battle against each other, too dumb and single-minded to know
the war was over.
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1291.1BUSY::SLABOUNTYDon't like my p_n? 1-800-328-7448Fri Jan 19 1996 15:273
    
    	Sounds similar to "Tremors", except for the robot part.
    
1291.2TP011::KENAHDo we have any peanut butter?Fri Jan 19 1996 16:515
    Chances are the resemblence between the story and the film will
    be as tenuous as the connections between "Do Androids..." and
    Bladerunner" or "We Can Remember It..." and "Total Recall."
    
    					andrew
1291.3No mention of "Second Variety" in this conferenceTP011::KENAHDo we have any peanut butter?Tue Jan 23 1996 01:543
    "Screamers" according to the TV ad, is based on the PKD short story
    "Second Variety."
    					andrew