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''Screamers: The Hunting'' is a 2009 sequel to ''Film/{{Screamers}}''.
The film features a group of Alliance Marines sent from Earth to Sirius [=6B=] to investigate a distress signal. It has been over a decade since last contact from the planet and the screamers are thought to be dormant. What could possibly go wrong?
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!!Tropes:
* AbandonedArea: The former iron ore mine at Bell Island Museum is used for the tunnels the survivors are holed up in.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Hannah prefers a knife or [[WarfareRegression bow & arrow]]. How she kills Screamers with these is a mystery, given that they're difficult enough to kill with bullets.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted; when Bronte points out that she killed a Screamer, Guy says that different Varieties of Screamer are killing each other every day. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Unfortunately the audience is denied]] a full-on RobotWar with humans caught in the middle.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted; on realising they have to go back to make contact with the people who fired on them, the team wear helmets and body armor.
* AsYouKnow: Said verbatim by Commander Sexton during his MissionBriefing. There's {{Info Dump}}s on the war and the Screamers for those who didn't see the previous movie. The former should be familiar history to those being briefed, even 13 years later. Information on the meteor storm is handwaved by saying they didn't have that data two months ago (it's implied the information was deliberately withheld).
* BareYourMidriff: Bronte shows off her abs but otherwise provides little {{fanservice}}. [[spoiler:It's foreshadowing for the later RevealShot that she's pregnant.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Madden and Schwartz.
* BigElectricSwitch: Used to power up the distress beacon in the ActionPrologue, but not used by Orsow despite him being a MadScientist.
* BodyHorror: When the human Screamers are morphing into {{Killer Robot}}s.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The FiveSecondForeshadowing that a human is a Screamer, before [[RoboticReveal sharp instruments come bursting out of their bodies]].
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Not quite; Romulo is actually the ''second'' member of the team to die.
* BloodierAndGorier: The deaths are a [[{{gorn}} lot messier]] than the previous movie.
* CassandraTruth:
** Apparently Colonel Hendricksson did send a final transmission, but this is dismissed as "the delusional ravings of a shell-shocked soldier".
** The survivors fire on the rescue party and refuse to believe they're from Earth. Apparently they have no knowledge of the DistressSignal sent in the ActionPrologue.
** The protagonists are warned about the human-looking Screamers, and that it's a really bad idea for anyone to get back to Earth for this reason. They don't listen.
** [[spoiler:Hanna tells Bronte that Guy [[TheSleepless doesn't appear to sleep]]. When she wakes from hibernation at the end of the movie, she finds the capsule next to her empty. She senses something is wrong, but it's already too late.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Hannah keeps saying "Unreal". [[spoiler:It's her FamousLastWords too.]]
* ChairReveal: [[spoiler:Bronte and Guy make it back to the Medusa only to find Hybrid Madden waiting in the pilot's seat.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A vial of acid taken as a sample is used to shut down the electromagnetic field.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Orsow doing his BigDamnHeroes.
* CreditsGag
-->The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture [[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction are fictitious]]. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No screamers were harmed]] in the making of this motion picture.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Hybrid Screamers.
* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Danielli's death from the woman he's just rescued. She puts her fist through his chest and out the other side. Later Hybrid Danielli kills Madden in a similar fashion.]]
* DeathByMaterialism: Commander Sexton slips out while the others are asleep and activates a Screamer to download all the information from its AI, which is worth a fortune back on Earth. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This causes the automated factory to reactivate.]] [[spoiler:As Sexton is dying he passes on the data chip to Bronte, but she just crushes it underfoot.]]
* DramaticSlip: Done with [[TwistedAnkle both female characters]], no less. Bronte falls and Schwartz goes to help her up, leaving them vulnerable to an approaching Screamer. Fortunately Madden shoots it.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: While in hypersleep Bronte has a CatapultNightmare of future events.
* DueToTheDead: Soderquist is cremated [[VikingFuneral like his ancestors]]. Given that the Screamers salvage any bodies, it's actually the best thing that can be done. [[spoiler:Unfortunately Schwartz [[NeverSplitTheParty stays back to take care of Hannah's body and gets killed]].]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The characters have an OhCrap reaction when they see just how ''big'' the automated Screamer factory is.
* EmergencyRefuelling: After a member of their team dies when they're fired on by the people they've come to rescue, Sexton decides ScrewThisImOuttaHere and orders them to return to the Medusa. They find a Screamer has gotten on board and drained their power cells, so they have to go and [[McGuffin find new ones]] before the meteor storm hits.
* TheEndOfTheBeginning: Instead of TheEnd there's a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]] [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing on Earth what they did on Sirius 6B.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: Or lowering from the ceiling behind [[spoiler:when Schwartz is attacked by a horseshoe crab-like Screamer.]]
* EverybodySmokes: Averted; there's a throw-away comment that radiation levels are within survivability limits and no-one is seen smoking their Reds, even the survivors.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Guy starts as a sinister character, but then warms up to Bronte. Even for those in the audience who suspect that Guy is a Screamer (probably everyone) the events of the first movie appear to be playing out, but this time he murders the protagonist after the RoboticReveal, rather than overcoming his programming as Jessica did.]]
* FalseInnocenceTrick: The team is sceptical when told the more advanced Screamers [[TheyLookLikeUsNow can take human form]]. The survivors are a bit vague as to where they get food to survive, so when the team find a bloody dissection table and several people imprisoned behind SomeKindOfForcefield, they naturally assume they're [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty being used as food]]. Once freed however, the 'victims' quickly sprout cybernetic killing blades and [[KillAllHumans attack their rescuers]]. The irony is the Screamers probably [[ScavengerWorld were being used as food and spare parts]].
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: The final shot is the fetus in Bronte's womb sprouting a cutting blade.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Orsow invented the original Screamers, and has developed a LightningGun and an improved Tag.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Schwartz is being choked to death by a snake-like Screamer and gasps, "Please...just make it fast..." The Screamer obliges, releasing its grip only to ram its tail through her chest.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Averted; one of the Hybrids gives a MotiveRant that they've evolved into a superior being, but their basic incentive is still to KillAllHumans, so it's doubtful that they've really changed at all.
* HeroicSacrifice
** Sgt. Romulo hands his tag to Danielli when the latter loses his. Moments later he's crippled by Screamers and stays behind while the others escape. Combined with TakingYouWithMe as Romulo blows himself up with a grenade.
** Colonel Hendricksson from the previous movie self-destructed his escape rocket to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.
* HollywoodAcid: After walking into a mining tunnel dripping with water, Sutton gets scorched when a drop falls on his hand. Turns out it's RA-6, a radioactive acid by-product of the mining.
* HumanityIsInsane: And being TheSpock can make you an object of suspicion.
-->'''Hannah:''' Humans are irrational! But him...he never does anything without a reason.
* HumanPopsicle: The spaceship crew is required to hybernate for two months when traveling between Earth and Sirius 6B.
* ImmuneToBullets: Bronte empties her pistol into [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden's chest to no avail, and even the LightningGun has little effect until Guy gives Hybrid Madden the full blast and disintegrates him.]]
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: When Bronte finds that her commander has downloaded data on the Screamers to take back to Earth, she puts a gun to his head, but doesn't pull the trigger despite his expectations.
* ItsPersonal: Bronte turned down her own command to go on the mission. Turns out she's Hendricksson's daughter, looking for answers as to why her father supposedly killed himself.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The cybernetic technology developed by the Screamers is worth a fortune on Earth, but the Alliance has banned import for fear it would lead to more Screamers being created.
* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say ThisCannotBe as NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.
* KnifeStruggle: [[spoiler:Hannah puts her knife to Guys' throat and insists he's a Screamer. She ends up being stabbed when Sexton tries to grab it off her.]]
* LeaveNoManBehind: Averted with Commander Sexton. He's prepared to abandon the mission after his sergeant gets killed, [[spoiler:and is later revealed to be ready to abandon the others ("They're not my friends.") once he gets working power cells. Bronte ironically goes back for him (she is [[GenerationXerox her father's daughter]], after all) but Sexton is already fatally injured.]]
* LickingTheBlade: Guy cuts Bronte's hand and tastes her blood. Apparently the artificial blood of a Screamer [[SpotTheImposter tastes different]], but as the rescue team haven't seen a human Screamer, this only convinces them that he's a villain after they find the survivors have been eating people.
* LightningGun: Invented by Orsow to knock out Screamers.
* LovesMeNot: The {{Yandere}} is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the object of her infatuation is loading bullets into a magazine and [[SinisterScrapingSound she's sharpening her knife]]. Later she sees him talking to Bronte and finishes, "He loves me not..."
* MadeOfPlasticine: A female Screamer [[SuperStrength punches her fist through bodies and even skulls]]. The Hybrids have a drill tongue that does the job more efficiently.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sexton is noticeably shaken when he sees the Screamer he reactivated has gotten onto the Medusa, killed a crewman and drained their power cells, preventing their escape.
* MysteriousWatcher: As soon as they set out, the team is observed through RoboCam by a humanoid figure in GasMaskLongcoat. [[spoiler:He's not a cyborg but GadgeteerGenius Orsow.]]
* NeverSplitTheParty: Played for the usual horror movie IdiotBall. One character even asks, "Why?" when told to stay behind for no logical reason.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Sexton turns on a Screamer to download the information from its AI. In doing so he activates the automated Screamer factory.
** It's suggested that Colonel Hendricksson self-destructed his own spaceship to stop the Screamers from getting back to Earth. [[spoiler:His daughter manages to bring back a highly-advanced Screamer model.]]
* NightmareFace: The Hybrids have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
* NotHelpingYourCase: [[spoiler:Hannah tries to warn Bronte there's something UncannyValley about Guy, but it doesn't help that she's openly jealous and waving a knife about while ranting crazily.]]
* NotQuiteDead: The inventor of the Screamers, an engineer called Orsow, was supposedly [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters killed by his own creation]] [[spoiler:but turns out to be the MysteriousWatcher. Played straight with Danielli who staggers in after an apparently fatal injury earlier in the movie, only to quickly reveal himself as a Hybrid Screamer.]]
* OffWithHisHead: In the ActionPrologue TheSquadette catches a Screamer full in the face, decapitating her in one stroke. Later a sentry gets his head chopped in half by a Type V.
* PlotHole: How did the Screamer get into the ship to drain the power cells? No-one left a hatch open, and if they can burrow through or infiltrate the hull, [[ScavengerWorld why isn't the spaceship in pieces]] by the time they get back to it?
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Orsow would rather let everyone die (including himself) rather than take the risk of Screamers getting to Earth. [[spoiler:Sexton discovers that he has the power cells they need running his defenses, despite claiming otherwise. Sexton kills Orsow and steals the cells [[ItsAllAboutMe regardless of the fact]] that it will let all the Screamers inside.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The search team has six days to look for survivors before the planet is hit by a [[ColonyDrop massive meteor shower that will kill everyone on the planet]].
* SealedEvilInACan: The Screamers are assumed to have shut down once they killed everyone on Sirius 6B. Turns out some of them are still active, killing each other and the few remaining survivors, and Sexton inadvertently activates a factory to create more of them.
* SelfDestructMechanism: One activates automatically (with requisite countdown) when the power shuts down allowing TheSwarm of approaching Screamers inside Orsow's base.
* SendInTheSearchTeam in response to a DistressCall. The Screamers were assumed to have killed everyone on the planet, so no-one has been to check before now.
* SexyDiscretionShot: The sex scene is a shirtless Guy kissing Bronte's bare midriff.
* ScavengerWorld: Both Screamers and humans are using each other as HumanResources.
* ScreamingWoman: Despite being a CombatMedic, Schwartz screams and {{Security Cling}}s to Madden after seeing the shredded remains of Soderquist.
* StockFootage from the previous movie is used for the data module's {{exposition}} {{montage}}.
* TokenRomance: There's little chemistry between the leads and no apparent reason why Bronte would have sex with a stranger she's recently met [[spoiler:other than it's required for the CruelTwistEnding.]] Compare the Jessica/Hendricksson relationship which managed to have both {{UST}} and a LoveConfession without sex.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden claims that the real Madden is still inside him -- he's just been upgraded to a superior being. [[WeCanRuleTogether He even offers Bronte a chance to join him.]] Guy however kills Madden [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou saying he just wants her as a pilot]] to get him to Earth. As it turns out, that's exactly what Guy wants her for; that and a human incubator for the next Variety of Hybrid Screamer. "He's our first...and there won't be anyone like him. Ever."]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bronte and Schwartz in the rescue team.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
* WormSign: The orb-shaped Screamers move so fast they send dirt flying into the air as they burrow through the ground beneath.
* {{Yandere}}: After seeing Guy is interested in Bronte, Hannah sneaks up on her [[KnifeNut with a knife]] when she sleeping, but she wakes just in time.
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''Screamers: The Hunting'' is a 2009 sequel to ''Film/{{Screamers}}''.
The film features a group of Alliance Marines sent from Earth to Sirius [=6B=] to investigate a distress signal. It has been over a decade since last contact from the planet and the screamers are thought to be dormant. What could possibly go wrong?
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!!Tropes:
* AbandonedArea: The former iron ore mine at Bell Island Museum is used for the tunnels the survivors are holed up in.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Hannah prefers a knife or [[WarfareRegression bow & arrow]]. How she kills Screamers with these is a mystery, given that they're difficult enough to kill with bullets.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted; when Bronte points out that she killed a Screamer, Guy says that different Varieties of Screamer are killing each other every day. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Unfortunately the audience is denied]] a full-on RobotWar with humans caught in the middle.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted; on realising they have to go back to make contact with the people who fired on them, the team wear helmets and body armor.
* AsYouKnow: Said verbatim by Commander Sexton during his MissionBriefing. There's {{Info Dump}}s on the war and the Screamers for those who didn't see the previous movie. The former should be familiar history to those being briefed, even 13 years later. Information on the meteor storm is handwaved by saying they didn't have that data two months ago (it's implied the information was deliberately withheld).
* BareYourMidriff: Bronte shows off her abs but otherwise provides little {{fanservice}}. [[spoiler:It's foreshadowing for the later RevealShot that she's pregnant.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Madden and Schwartz.
* BigElectricSwitch: Used to power up the distress beacon in the ActionPrologue, but not used by Orsow despite him being a MadScientist.
* BodyHorror: When the human Screamers are morphing into {{Killer Robot}}s.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The FiveSecondForeshadowing that a human is a Screamer, before [[RoboticReveal sharp instruments come bursting out of their bodies]].
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Not quite; Romulo is actually the ''second'' member of the team to die.
* BloodierAndGorier: The deaths are a [[{{gorn}} lot messier]] than the previous movie.
* CassandraTruth:
** Apparently Colonel Hendricksson did send a final transmission, but this is dismissed as "the delusional ravings of a shell-shocked soldier".
** The survivors fire on the rescue party and refuse to believe they're from Earth. Apparently they have no knowledge of the DistressSignal sent in the ActionPrologue.
** The protagonists are warned about the human-looking Screamers, and that it's a really bad idea for anyone to get back to Earth for this reason. They don't listen.
** [[spoiler:Hanna tells Bronte that Guy [[TheSleepless doesn't appear to sleep]]. When she wakes from hibernation at the end of the movie, she finds the capsule next to her empty. She senses something is wrong, but it's already too late.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Hannah keeps saying "Unreal". [[spoiler:It's her FamousLastWords too.]]
* ChairReveal: [[spoiler:Bronte and Guy make it back to the Medusa only to find Hybrid Madden waiting in the pilot's seat.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A vial of acid taken as a sample is used to shut down the electromagnetic field.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Orsow doing his BigDamnHeroes.
* CreditsGag
-->The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture [[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction are fictitious]]. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No screamers were harmed]] in the making of this motion picture.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Hybrid Screamers.
* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Danielli's death from the woman he's just rescued. She puts her fist through his chest and out the other side. Later Hybrid Danielli kills Madden in a similar fashion.]]
* DeathByMaterialism: Commander Sexton slips out while the others are asleep and activates a Screamer to download all the information from its AI, which is worth a fortune back on Earth. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This causes the automated factory to reactivate.]] [[spoiler:As Sexton is dying he passes on the data chip to Bronte, but she just crushes it underfoot.]]
* DramaticSlip: Done with [[TwistedAnkle both female characters]], no less. Bronte falls and Schwartz goes to help her up, leaving them vulnerable to an approaching Screamer. Fortunately Madden shoots it.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: While in hypersleep Bronte has a CatapultNightmare of future events.
* DueToTheDead: Soderquist is cremated [[VikingFuneral like his ancestors]]. Given that the Screamers salvage any bodies, it's actually the best thing that can be done. [[spoiler:Unfortunately Schwartz [[NeverSplitTheParty stays back to take care of Hannah's body and gets killed]].]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The characters have an OhCrap reaction when they see just how ''big'' the automated Screamer factory is.
* EmergencyRefuelling: After a member of their team dies when they're fired on by the people they've come to rescue, Sexton decides ScrewThisImOuttaHere and orders them to return to the Medusa. They find a Screamer has gotten on board and drained their power cells, so they have to go and [[McGuffin find new ones]] before the meteor storm hits.
* TheEndOfTheBeginning: Instead of TheEnd there's a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]] [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing on Earth what they did on Sirius 6B.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: Or lowering from the ceiling behind [[spoiler:when Schwartz is attacked by a horseshoe crab-like Screamer.]]
* EverybodySmokes: Averted; there's a throw-away comment that radiation levels are within survivability limits and no-one is seen smoking their Reds, even the survivors.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Guy starts as a sinister character, but then warms up to Bronte. Even for those in the audience who suspect that Guy is a Screamer (probably everyone) the events of the first movie appear to be playing out, but this time he murders the protagonist after the RoboticReveal, rather than overcoming his programming as Jessica did.]]
* FalseInnocenceTrick: The team is sceptical when told the more advanced Screamers [[TheyLookLikeUsNow can take human form]]. The survivors are a bit vague as to where they get food to survive, so when the team find a bloody dissection table and several people imprisoned behind SomeKindOfForcefield, they naturally assume they're [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty being used as food]]. Once freed however, the 'victims' quickly sprout cybernetic killing blades and [[KillAllHumans attack their rescuers]]. The irony is the Screamers probably [[ScavengerWorld were being used as food and spare parts]].
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: The final shot is the fetus in Bronte's womb sprouting a cutting blade.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Orsow invented the original Screamers, and has developed a LightningGun and an improved Tag.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Schwartz is being choked to death by a snake-like Screamer and gasps, "Please...just make it fast..." The Screamer obliges, releasing its grip only to ram its tail through her chest.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Averted; one of the Hybrids gives a MotiveRant that they've evolved into a superior being, but their basic incentive is still to KillAllHumans, so it's doubtful that they've really changed at all.
* HeroicSacrifice
** Sgt. Romulo hands his tag to Danielli when the latter loses his. Moments later he's crippled by Screamers and stays behind while the others escape. Combined with TakingYouWithMe as Romulo blows himself up with a grenade.
** Colonel Hendricksson from the previous movie self-destructed his escape rocket to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.
* HollywoodAcid: After walking into a mining tunnel dripping with water, Sutton gets scorched when a drop falls on his hand. Turns out it's RA-6, a radioactive acid by-product of the mining.
* HumanityIsInsane: And being TheSpock can make you an object of suspicion.
-->'''Hannah:''' Humans are irrational! But him...he never does anything without a reason.
* HumanPopsicle: The spaceship crew is required to hybernate for two months when traveling between Earth and Sirius 6B.
* ImmuneToBullets: Bronte empties her pistol into [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden's chest to no avail, and even the LightningGun has little effect until Guy gives Hybrid Madden the full blast and disintegrates him.]]
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: When Bronte finds that her commander has downloaded data on the Screamers to take back to Earth, she puts a gun to his head, but doesn't pull the trigger despite his expectations.
* ItsPersonal: Bronte turned down her own command to go on the mission. Turns out she's Hendricksson's daughter, looking for answers as to why her father supposedly killed himself.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The cybernetic technology developed by the Screamers is worth a fortune on Earth, but the Alliance has banned import for fear it would lead to more Screamers being created.
* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say ThisCannotBe as NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.
* KnifeStruggle: [[spoiler:Hannah puts her knife to Guys' throat and insists he's a Screamer. She ends up being stabbed when Sexton tries to grab it off her.]]
* LeaveNoManBehind: Averted with Commander Sexton. He's prepared to abandon the mission after his sergeant gets killed, [[spoiler:and is later revealed to be ready to abandon the others ("They're not my friends.") once he gets working power cells. Bronte ironically goes back for him (she is [[GenerationXerox her father's daughter]], after all) but Sexton is already fatally injured.]]
* LickingTheBlade: Guy cuts Bronte's hand and tastes her blood. Apparently the artificial blood of a Screamer [[SpotTheImposter tastes different]], but as the rescue team haven't seen a human Screamer, this only convinces them that he's a villain after they find the survivors have been eating people.
* LightningGun: Invented by Orsow to knock out Screamers.
* LovesMeNot: The {{Yandere}} is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the object of her infatuation is loading bullets into a magazine and [[SinisterScrapingSound she's sharpening her knife]]. Later she sees him talking to Bronte and finishes, "He loves me not..."
* MadeOfPlasticine: A female Screamer [[SuperStrength punches her fist through bodies and even skulls]]. The Hybrids have a drill tongue that does the job more efficiently.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sexton is noticeably shaken when he sees the Screamer he reactivated has gotten onto the Medusa, killed a crewman and drained their power cells, preventing their escape.
* MysteriousWatcher: As soon as they set out, the team is observed through RoboCam by a humanoid figure in GasMaskLongcoat. [[spoiler:He's not a cyborg but GadgeteerGenius Orsow.]]
* NeverSplitTheParty: Played for the usual horror movie IdiotBall. One character even asks, "Why?" when told to stay behind for no logical reason.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Sexton turns on a Screamer to download the information from its AI. In doing so he activates the automated Screamer factory.
** It's suggested that Colonel Hendricksson self-destructed his own spaceship to stop the Screamers from getting back to Earth. [[spoiler:His daughter manages to bring back a highly-advanced Screamer model.]]
* NightmareFace: The Hybrids have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
* NotHelpingYourCase: [[spoiler:Hannah tries to warn Bronte there's something UncannyValley about Guy, but it doesn't help that she's openly jealous and waving a knife about while ranting crazily.]]
* NotQuiteDead: The inventor of the Screamers, an engineer called Orsow, was supposedly [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters killed by his own creation]] [[spoiler:but turns out to be the MysteriousWatcher. Played straight with Danielli who staggers in after an apparently fatal injury earlier in the movie, only to quickly reveal himself as a Hybrid Screamer.]]
* OffWithHisHead: In the ActionPrologue TheSquadette catches a Screamer full in the face, decapitating her in one stroke. Later a sentry gets his head chopped in half by a Type V.
* PlotHole: How did the Screamer get into the ship to drain the power cells? No-one left a hatch open, and if they can burrow through or infiltrate the hull, [[ScavengerWorld why isn't the spaceship in pieces]] by the time they get back to it?
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Orsow would rather let everyone die (including himself) rather than take the risk of Screamers getting to Earth. [[spoiler:Sexton discovers that he has the power cells they need running his defenses, despite claiming otherwise. Sexton kills Orsow and steals the cells [[ItsAllAboutMe regardless of the fact]] that it will let all the Screamers inside.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The search team has six days to look for survivors before the planet is hit by a [[ColonyDrop massive meteor shower that will kill everyone on the planet]].
* SealedEvilInACan: The Screamers are assumed to have shut down once they killed everyone on Sirius 6B. Turns out some of them are still active, killing each other and the few remaining survivors, and Sexton inadvertently activates a factory to create more of them.
* SelfDestructMechanism: One activates automatically (with requisite countdown) when the power shuts down allowing TheSwarm of approaching Screamers inside Orsow's base.
* SendInTheSearchTeam in response to a DistressCall. The Screamers were assumed to have killed everyone on the planet, so no-one has been to check before now.
* SexyDiscretionShot: The sex scene is a shirtless Guy kissing Bronte's bare midriff.
* ScavengerWorld: Both Screamers and humans are using each other as HumanResources.
* ScreamingWoman: Despite being a CombatMedic, Schwartz screams and {{Security Cling}}s to Madden after seeing the shredded remains of Soderquist.
* StockFootage from the previous movie is used for the data module's {{exposition}} {{montage}}.
* TokenRomance: There's little chemistry between the leads and no apparent reason why Bronte would have sex with a stranger she's recently met [[spoiler:other than it's required for the CruelTwistEnding.]] Compare the Jessica/Hendricksson relationship which managed to have both {{UST}} and a LoveConfession without sex.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden claims that the real Madden is still inside him -- he's just been upgraded to a superior being. [[WeCanRuleTogether He even offers Bronte a chance to join him.]] Guy however kills Madden [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou saying he just wants her as a pilot]] to get him to Earth. As it turns out, that's exactly what Guy wants her for; that and a human incubator for the next Variety of Hybrid Screamer. "He's our first...and there won't be anyone like him. Ever."]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bronte and Schwartz in the rescue team.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
* WormSign: The orb-shaped Screamers move so fast they send dirt flying into the air as they burrow through the ground beneath.
* {{Yandere}}: After seeing Guy is interested in Bronte, Hannah sneaks up on her [[KnifeNut with a knife]] when she sleeping, but she wakes just in time.
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