Plot
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.
Keywords: dna, alien, scientist, seti, alien-dna, science, human-alien, train, killing, cocoon
If you build it, they will come.
Men cannot resist her. Mankind may not survive her.
For three million years, the human race has been at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Nothing lasts forever
Two decades ago scientists sent a message to space... This... is the reply.
Our time is up
Be Intrigued. Be Seduced. Be Warned.
Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.::Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.
Agent: Criminologist says there's no evidence of semen in the hot tub water.::Preston Lennox: Well, maybe she took it with.
[while drinking Long Island Iced Tea]::Dan Smithson, Empath: These are some good cups of tea, man.
Xavier Fitch: A train came through here about the time she escaped.::Agent: Is she that fast?::Xavier Fitch: She is *that* fast.
Dr. Laura Baker: I got his machine. Should I leave a message?::Preston Lennox: Yeah. Tell him he's about to copulate with a creature from outer space.::[Preston laughs and Laura smiles]
Preston Lennox: No one ever asked me to find anything they didn't want dead.
Dr. Stephen Arden: [to Sil, after they finished having sex] Oh my dear... I enjoyed that immensely!
Preston Lennox: Let go of him you motherfucker.
Sil: [on Laura's perfume] Smells nice. Can I try some?::Dr. Laura Baker: Yeah, help yourself.::Sil: Does it work on your boyfriend?::Dr. Laura Baker: Yeah, as a repellent. [walks away]
[first lines]::Xavier Fitch: I'm sorry.::Young Sil: [mouthing] I'm sorry.
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name | Species |
director | Roger Donaldson |
producer | Frank Mancuso, Jr. |
writer | Dennis Feldman |
starring | Ben KingsleyMichael MadsenAlfred MolinaForest WhitakerMarg HelgenbergerNatasha Henstridge |
music | Christopher Young |
cinematography | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
editing | Conrad Buff |
distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
released | |
runtime | 108 minutes |
country | |
language | EnglishPortuguese |
budget | $30 million |
gross | $113,374,103 |
followed by | ''Species II'' }} |
The film produced one theatrical sequel in 1998, ''Species II'', which had Henstridge, Madsen, and Helgenberger reprise their roles. It was followed by the direct-to-video ''Species III'' in 2004 and ''Species: The Awakening'' in 2007, which stands as a separate film, not as an official follow-up to the previous three.
Sil's violent outbursts during sleep make the scientists consider her a threat. They try to kill her using cyanide gas but instead she breaks out of her containment cell and escapes. The government assembles a team composed of anthropologist Dr. Stephen Arden (Alfred Molina), molecular biologist Dr. Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger), empath Dan Smithson (Forest Whitaker) and mercenary Preston "Press" Lennox (Michael Madsen) to track and destroy Sil. Sil matures rapidly into an adult (Natasha Henstridge) in her early twenties and makes her way to Los Angeles. This makes tracking her extremely difficult. She is incredibly strong and intelligent with amazing regenerative powers. The scientists fear she may mate with human males and produce offspring that could eliminate the human race. Sil lacks inhibitions when it comes to killing people who get in her way and wants to produce offspring as soon as possible. She frequently morphs into her alien form, a bipedal creature with tentacles on her shoulders and back.
Sil tries first to mate with a man she meets at a night club, but after sensing that he is diabetic, rejects and kills him by puncturing his skull with her tongue. She then tries to mate with a man she meets after a car accident; this is interrupted by Press and Laura. She kills the man and flees into a forest without being seen by the team, and without any clothing. She pretends to be a rape victim, and then proceeds to kidnap a woman. She fakes her death by crashing the woman's car into a tree during a high-speed chase.
After cutting and dying her hair, she takes an attraction to Press and attempts to seduce him. She eventually copulates with Arden; then kills him when he realizes who she is and what he has done. The rest of the team then follow her into the sewers where Fitch is subsequently killed and the area where she and her offspring are destroyed. Press uses a grenade launcher on Sil, blowing her head off. The trio leaves the area. The last scene shows a rat chewing on one of Sil's severed tentacles; it starts to mutate into a vicious beast and attacks another rat.
Parts of these extra scenes and details are shown in the comic book adaptation by Titan Books. There is also a novelization by Navarro for ''Species II'' which follows the film's original screenplay with added scenes.
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Coordinates | 15°48′00″N47°54′00″N |
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bgcolour | #FBF5DF |
name | H. R. Giger |
birth name | Hans Ruedi Giger |
birth date | February 05, 1940 |
birth place | Chur, Graubünden Canton, Switzerland |
nationality | Swiss |
field | painting, sculpting, set design, movie directing |
movement | Science fiction, Fantasy, Occult, Macabre |
influenced by | Ernst Fuchs, Salvador Dalí |
awards | }} |
Giger has created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for a movie of the novel ''Dune'' that was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Many years later, David Lynch directed the film, using only rough concepts by Giger. Giger had wished to work with Lynch, as he states in one of his books that Lynch's film ''Eraserhead'' was closer to realizing his vision in film even than his own films. As of 2009 only the two authentic Swiss Giger Bars remain.
His art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Under a licensing deal Ibanez guitars released an H. R. Giger signature series: the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features "NY City VI", the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has "NY City XI" printed on it, the S Series SHRG1Z has a metal-coated engraving of "Biomechanical Matrix" on it, and a 4-string SRX bass, SRXHRG1, has "N.Y. City X" on it. Korn's Jonathan Davis commissioned Giger to design and sculpt a microphone stand, with the requirement that it be biomechanical, erotic, and movable. The contract allowed for five aluminium microphone stands to be made, but Davis purchased only two of the three he was entitled to. The design of the microphone stand was later adapted to Giger's "Nubian Queen" transforming it into a fine art sculpture.
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