ITF Read & Watch: Screamers (1953 short story & 1995 film)

Philip K. Dick returns to the show with what might be his
strongest story yet with “Second Variety,” but how does the
adaptation by Christian Duguay stack up? In episode 151, Luke
& James smoke some anti-radiation cigs and set off into the
wastes to hunt some deadly machines.

Topics: Peter Weller AKA Robocop himself as Hendrickson, a
swiss-army knife character, cold war era anxieties, secret
Terminator inspiration, PKD’s signature woman-character
revisited, a remarkably unsexy onscreen kiss, teaching machines
how to… you know, and a final vote deciding which was better: the
short story or the movie!


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Music: Ross Bugden