Screamers: The Hunting

An SOS crackles in from a world that's supposed to be dead. Screamers: The Hunting (2009) is the sci-fi horror sequel you can watch online in HD, picking up the story of weapons that build copies of themselves. Director Sheldon Wilson drops the crew back onto Sirius 6-B.

Lieutenant Victoria Bronte leads a team to find whoever sent the distress call. At a battered military outpost they discover a handful of survivors — and proof that the screamers never really vanished. The killing machines have evolved: they now wear human faces convincingly enough to walk right up to you. Trust collapses fast, and the paranoia turns out to be deadlier than the robots themselves.

A follow-up to the cult Screamers, rooted in Philip K. Dick's short story "Second Variety," this one trades scale for claustrophobia and suspicion. The cast pairs Gina Holden with genre veteran Lance Henriksen and a pre-Arrow Stephen Amell. Stream Screamers: The Hunting (2009) online on iFILM.