Species(1995)
"For three million years, the human race has been at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Nothing lasts forever."
Overview
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.
Roger Donaldson
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Dennis Feldman
Writer
Top Billed Cast
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A Human-Alien Hybrid: Sil's Origin Story
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Sil Escapes the Lab: Opening Scene
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Species (1995) - Bonus Clip: Steve Johnson And Norman Cabrera On Designing The Creature (HD)
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Written on October 18, 2020
This was a hit movie at the time, and other than the Xenos design, I'd say it is still a pretty good movie. The "anti-Jaws" approach of showing the monster off is really cool as the premise is largely how detailed and dangerous the xenos is, but the approach removes a lot of the suspense in the hunting and subterfuge, almost humanizing her as "hunted by the evil government entity".
While it would be a much different, and arguably better, movie to do something more like "The Thing", that she only has one human mask sorts of outs her, making it more like a spy movie, and I think they did really well with that in mind.
It just lacks the level of nuance and hidden information that spy and thriller movies tend to have.
It's much closer to "Aliens" than "Alien".
