Byline: STEPHEN HOLDEN New York Times
NEW YORK -- One lesson Hollywood never seems to learn is that the scariest monsters are the ones rarely if ever seen. When the creepy title characters of the science-fiction thriller ``Screamers'' first appear in the film, they are mysterious bulges scuttling under the contaminated sands of a distant war-ravaged planet, like rats under a carpet.
The mechanisms -- man-made killing machines created to guard the remote mining outpost from invaders -- were designed to be autonomous swords. Somehow they have become self-replicating.
In the movie's first and scariest attack, a trespasser lacking the proper electronic …
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