Species II

Plot synopsis:
Three years after the events of the previous film, Commander Patrick Ross leads a manned mission to Mars. Soil samples collected by Patrick's team of astronauts contain a substance which thaws aboard their capsule and attacks them, causing a seven-minute contact gap with mission control. With seemingly no subsequent negative effects, the astronauts return to Earth to public celebration. However, an institutionalized former scientist, Dr. Cromwell, reacts to their return with violent panic. Meanwhile, Dr. Laura Baker has created a clone of Sil named Eve, whose alien DNA is suppressed to make her more docile. Her team conducts experiments on Eve, hoping to find a way to combat the alien species should it ever return to Earth. Every experiment is unsuccessful as Eve's biology adapts.
Upon their return, Patrick and his team are told to refrain from sexual activity for ten days. Patrick disregards this advice and has a threesome with two sisters following a fundraiser. During intercourse with the second woman, he begins to sprout tentacles. The woman notices his transformation while she is stroking his body and is horrified at the sight of him where she tries to free herself from his clutches. Both women endure accelerated pregnancies, ending with Patrick's half-alien children tearing out of their abdomens. Patrick hides both corpses and his rapidly growing sons on the property of his father, U.S. Senator Judson Ross. The next day, Patrick tells his father he cannot remember the previous night's events. Senator Ross indicates that he is aware of Patrick's behavior and tells him to focus on his political goals.
Dr. Orinsky, one of the NASA scientists who examined Patrick, discovers something amiss about his blood sample and desperately tries to contact Cromwell. However, Orinsky is ambushed and disemboweled by Patrick. Laura discovers that the DNA in Orinsky's wounds is not the same as Eve's, prompting Colonel Burgess, the military supervisor in charge of her project, to reunite her with Press Lennox to contain the new threat. Press and Laura seek out Cromwell, Orinsky's former professor, and learn that he discovered that the alien species had attacked and destroyed Mars in ancient times. Because of his fears that alien DNA might remain on Mars to infect anyone who visited the planet in the future, Cromwell urged the government to abort the mission, but was institutionalized to suppress his work.
Press and Laura report their findings to Burgess, identifying the Mars astronauts as the prime suspects. Unable to find Patrick, they pursue the other astronauts, Anne Sampas and Dennis Gamble. They arrive too late to prevent Anne from having sex with her husband, resulting in her impregnation with hybrid offspring. The tentacle-like creature bursts from Anne's womb and kills her husband before Press and Laura manage to kill it, but Anne dies of her injuries. Meanwhile, other government agents locate and examine the other astronaut, Dennis Gamble, but confirm he is not infected. Laura discovers that Anne's hybrid DNA does not match that in Orinsky's wounds, meaning Patrick is the killer. Meanwhile, Patrick has sex with his fiancée, resulting in her death and the birth of another hybrid son. Patrick commits suicide by shotgun, but the alien DNA regenerates his head and restores him back to life. Dennis witnesses this and tells Press and Laura what he saw, joining them in their mission. Patrick begins impregnating as many women as he can, hiding his victims and children at the shed.
Laura is ordered to activate Eve's alien DNA so she can telepathically track Patrick, but this makes her unstable and strengthens her alien instincts. Press and Dennis go after Patrick at a supermarket. They infiltrate the truck only to find a couple. Patrick becomes aware of Eve. Press and Dennis then arrest Patrick. As Patrick is taken to custody, Eve shows signs of being in heat. He demands Laura open Eve's cell and nearly kills her when she refuses, but Press and Dennis chase him off with gas. Burgess confronts Senator Ross with proof of Patrick's infection and demands help in detaining Patrick. Suspicious that Patrick will instead be killed, Ross deduces that he is at the shed and apologizes for treating his son so coldly. Patrick's human side briefly returns, but while he tearfully embraces his father, the alien DNA violently reasserts itself and kills the Senator. Ross's death completely destroys Patrick's humanity, and he helps his hybrid children to cocoon, so they will soon mature into adults and begin mating themselves to overtake mankind.
Back at the lab, Laura discovers Dennis was not infected because he is a carrier of sickle cell anemia, as the species lacks immunity to human genetic diseases. While they plan to use this as a weapon, Eve breaks out of her confinement to find Patrick. Press, Laura and Dennis pursue her, with Burgess and the military following. At the shed, they kill Patrick's offspring while Eve and Patrick transform into their alien forms and begin to mate. The mating stops by Press and Dennis, and Eve breaks free, but Patrick overpowers Eve by performing fellatio, killing her. Press stabs him in the back with a pitchfork coated in Dennis' blood, causing Patrick to disintegrate and die.
The military escorts Press, Laura and the injured Dennis away. Eve's lifeless body is loaded into an ambulance, but shortly after, her womb begins to swell rapidly - indicating her survival and impregnation by Patrick - while one of his youngest sons looks on. As the screen cuts to black, Eve's womb bursts and her screaming is heard.

Tags: insanity, psychedelic, comedy, murder, violence

Review:
Although we were told in the original movie, the alien DNA came from light years away, it is now found on Mars (just around the corner in astronomical terms), and astronauts take it home to Earth.
We get a lot of cliché characters, from the corrupt senator to the uncompromising general, and the survivors of part one are treated carelessly by the screenplay: Helgenberger lends a willing hand to cruel experiments, Natasha Henstridge returns as the alien's latest clone, but during the whole first hour of the movie, she has nothing to do except sit around in a glass cage.
Foster liked it, but once Brancato went to "Species" producer Frank Mancuso Jr., he asked to "approach this from a different angle, so that we don't have a tired retread of the original, as sequels often are." So Brancato took inspiration from "The Manchurian Candidate", where "somebody on a mission comes back, apparently a hero, but actually with some terrible demon inside." We get much of the original cast back, and some really fine additional casting, including James Cromwell and a memorable role by Peter Boyle.
I'm honest - if I've made a bad movie, I want my fans to know what they're letting themselves in for." (Regardless of what Madsen thinks of the film, Medak loved working with him.)I have to disagree with Madsen.
I have seen only but a few good sequels in my time, unfortunately this is not one of them.A BAD MOVIE!(But if you like Natasha H.
This movie definitely wasn't as good as the first one.I thought the original was actually quite entertaining and had quite a good story.This didn't have an as good story and some parts seemed silly.I didn't like the fact that it was the male astronaut doing all the killing instead of Sil.And that is was in Washington D.C instead of L.A. But the action scenes still entertained me and the monsters were pretty cool.I don't know how they got Michael Madsen and the now famous Marg Helenberger to do this sequel ( and I don't know they got Madsen to do the first one either) but there acting was good.Overall I think was a reasonably entertaining movie but don't out of your way to see it..
Put another way, one could do a Jeff Foxworthyesque comedy bit called "Your career might be in trouble if..." and the answer is "You worked on Species II." I have never felt so embarrassed for a group of actors as I had watching these thespians run through painfully stupid dialogue.
i saw this DVD having never seen SPECIES II before thinking "i wonder if its as good as the first was?" and all i have to say in response to watching it is "how does it only have 3.8/10?" I didn't have much expectations for it as a sequel but i was pleasantly surprised.Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger return acting just as great as they were in the first film, as did Natasha Henstridge, Justin Lazard was a fantastic choice for his role, Mykelti Williamson, wasn't exactly award winning but he could have been a lot worse, and the same goes for James Cromwell.the special effects were astonishing just as in the first one.i thoroughly enjoyed this movie so i give it 8/10.but my question for all haters of this movie and the first is "how else should it have been done?
Gore fans might like this movie but if your looking for an amazing science fiction/horror experience than watch the ALIEN films..
After returning from a mission to Mars, a team of experts' tracks down the infected astronaut carrying a parasitic alien before he can meet up and mate with a similar human/alien hybrid.A very rewarding sequel to a fine original, this one turned out to be very enjoyable.
With an increase of splatter, there's some great kills and creature make-up used during those scenes, and the tentacled beings covered in slime generate a lot of fun, especially bursting forth from people's stomachs or chasing around the ground which are good times.
It loses some steam in the middle where they keep coming up short in the quest to stop him rampaging and raping woman as they're always on the other end of it, but otherwise there's still a lot to like here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, several Sex Scenes and attempted rapes.
When the dead man's body is examined, DNA is found which is similar to that of Eve, a human/alien hybrid (Natasha Henstridge) that has been created in a top-secret laboratory (from the same batch of embryos that resulted in Sil from the original Species movie).It seems that one (or more) of the crew of the recent Mars mission is host to an alien, and unless they are captured, they will endeavour to procreate ASAP with as many partners as possible.Species II has a very silly story, with some particularly daft plot turns (Eve learns to drive from watching The Dukes of Hazzard!), but with lashings of quality gore (including several gruesome alien births and a shotgun blast to the head), better alien effects than the first film, and even more nudity, this sequel is still very enjoyable and worth watching if you liked the original.Michael Madsen returns as tough-guy Press, along with Marg Helgenberger as science bod Laura Baker, and also turning up for the fun is the ever reliable James Cromwell as the senator father of space hero Captain Ross.If you're in the mood for some undemanding mindless sci-fi horror, then check out Species IIit's not as bad as a lot of people seem to think!.
A lot of the acting was bad, the dialogue was terrible, it was only an excuse to show lots of naked women (not that there is anything wrong with that, but for some movies it's not).
This movie begins with a REALLY stupid premise: they recreate the SIL from the first film (who killed many people and is still played by Herstridge)and they try to figure out a way to kill her in case creatures like her invade Earth!
Also the special effects aren't bad...but not as good as the first.The acting, like in the first one, varies.
Had the film's approach been different (like a Peter Jackson gore comedies) then maybe the film might have been passable but as it is now, it's pure schlocky by-the-numbers exploitation with no redeeming qualities, even in a "it's so bad it's good" way..
Everything about this movie is bad; the acting (what little there is), the story (what little there is) and the special effects.
The special effects look like a cheap rip-off from Aliens and the way the male Species suffocates Eve with what looks like a phallic tentacle is beyond dumb.I cannot recommend this movie to anyone..
Sequel has astronauts being infected on Mars by the same alien DNA that caused all the trouble the first time, and when they return home, go on a murderous reproductive spree to take over the Earth.
Again, this has some returning cast members, all of whom deserve better than this excessively violent, sleazy, foul-mouthed and feeble-minded film.Hard to believe this farrago was directed by Peter Medak, who made the exceptionally fine ghost story "The Changeling"(1980) None of that class, intelligence and subtlety is on display here.
This film on the other hand is a horror.Starting off with a lot of potential at the very beginning, it succcombs to tired, tedious and not to assuringly believable ways of developing the characters progressively with the the moving action and story.
It's sad when the special effects in a movie's poster work better than those in the film.
This movie is so bad it bends the space-time continuum (watching the movie is like an eternity).When I walked into this movie I thought of hell as a place of eternally burning hellfire, now I think hell is a Movie theatre where this is the only movie showing.Why is it bad?: I'm sorry, but a thousand words just isn't enough space to truly express the horridness of this movie.After seeing this movie I contemplated not having children so I would not bring anything into a world where this, this thing can be passed off as a movie.Frankly I would rather shovel manure for the rest of my life than see this movie again.
At some point the film makers realized they had nothing to work with, and decided, "Hey, let's make this one as bad as we can!" The gore is plentiful but laughable, the dialogue and script ridiculous, acting and production values are close to rock bottom.
I don't mean to imply that this movie is "good in a bad way" like "Plan 9".
I watched the ladies present throwing their hands up in front of their eyes to shield themselves from the carnage, with their boyfriends nudging them in the shoulder going, "Look honey, Look!" One woman in particular, after a nasty sequence involving an autopsy, actually said out loud, "That's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen."ANY movie that can do that, can't be (and isn't) as bad as everyone wants you to think it is..
So it's worthless.Another bad career move for the somewhat talented Michael Madsen, a mistake for James (L.A. Confidential, Babe) Cromwell, a mis-step for Peter Boyle (whose part is short).Surprising is how god-awful not only the script is....
Next thing, if you go to a sequel for a movie where the original was pretty gory, aren't you going to expect for the sequel to be a few times worse?
People need to give this movie a break and realize that a lot of time and effort went into making this movie, and you can't go complain about a good constructed gore fest movie, when you went to that movie for the exact same reason to begin with, knowing it was going to be terribly gory.
if you are a horror movie lover, and like to get scared, please rent this, it has a good plot and great special effects..
I've got to admit that I liked the original Species quite a lot, and even though this movie suffers from some terrible dialogue and an overall ridiculous plot; for what it is, I've got to say that Species II is a decent sequel.
Three stars from the first film return to their roles; series pin-up Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger and, of course, the all-action hero Michael Madsen.
However, when the astronaut begins killing women; the government realise that some serious clean-up work is in order, and proceed to track down Press Lenox; apparently the only man capable of helping to stop the alien.The film doesn't have a lot of depth as aside from letting us into the idea of the alien originating from mars; it's pretty much just a spin-off from the original.
It's a shame that original star Natasha Henstridge is so underused, as her role feels a lot like it's only in the film as a tie to the original; and I'm sure that I'm not the only one who wouldn't have minded seeing more of her.
Still, while this film really isn't very good; you can't expect brilliance from a sequel to a minor mid-nineties hit, and I did enjoy watching it..
OK, so it is not great art, but it sure was an interesting movie.I am not burdened with the fact of seeing this as a sequel, as I have not seen the original, so I can rate it on its own.There is little story line here.
On the one hand, sometimes I feel like I am extremely harsh to movies that I can't stand (read my reviews of Scary Movie 1, 2, or 3, for example), but on the other hand, maybe I didn't hate Species II as much as many people because I've seen more bad movies than they have.
I have a bad habit of watching movies even if I already know I'm going to hate them (this is why I've seen Scary Movie, 2 and 3, for example), so this may be why I've been a little bit numbed to idiocy in the movies.I can certainly recognize stupidity at any level when I see it in the movies, and there is plenty of it in Species II, but it takes a lot more than this movie has for me to describe it as the worst movie I've ever seen or a total waste of celluloid or some other such nonsense.
On the way back, there is a lapse of communication for seven minutes, I think, and the next thing you know one of the scientists has been infected with alien DNA, much like the stuff running through Eve's veins.
Okay that was a guess, but while Natasha gets topless for about three seconds, there is still extensive nudity and group sex in the movie, most of which results in bloody birth scenes stolen from the Alien movies, as he steadily compiles a growing herd of offspring.Dennis Gamble, the token black guy and comic relief, has no purpose but to constantly complain that he can never get any booty, until scientists inform him that because he's a carrier of sickle cell anemia, his blood can be used as a weapon against the alien.
So if you, as I do, like BAD movies - Species II is a must..
It was another awful sequel in my book  because it was not even anything like the first.If you want to make a bad movie watch this movie !!The aliens effects were medicore at least!!I bet Ed wood could do a better job with this movie !!!.
The only scenes I really paid attention to, were of Eve's body- the actress is blessed with some great genes (or knows a good plastic surgeon?), but sex appeal isn't going to carry a sci-fi movie alone..
The acting is terrible, the plot confusing, and the cast looking like they have just been their to make up the numbers on the film.
This film is about as bad as you get when it comes to remakes or when it comes to any type of movie come to think of it.
'Species' was not a great film, but as a genre piece it was not bad.
I really would like to know why they make crappy sequels to crappy original scifi films?
Species 2 is simply better then its original, for a mainstream movie there's so much gore that it's got to be one of the few around, the effects and action scenes are fairly good and original and there's of course...Natasha Henstridge!the story is simple.
Even though I never got a chance to see the first one, i thought species II was not that bad of a movie.
And I actually liked the original SPECIES movie..
This sequel was completely unneeded, because the first one was fine for what it was.The plot here is that the same alien DNA that was in the first movie (which again, was transmitted via radio signal) has been just laying around Mars, waiting for some hapless astronauts to bring it back to Earth.Meanwhile, the project that made the original SIL, awesome killing machine, decided to make another because, hey, that worked out so well the first time.
* out of ****Species was a terrible movie that featured lazy writing, no sense of pacing, and laughably bad special effects.
Of course, you have to take in the fact that the script is even worse than the original film's.This time around, we have Eve (Natasha Henstridge) as our titillating female alien who was cloned from Eve.
The film's ideas are basically rehashed off of better (or rather, more entertaining) movies like Lifeforce and Alien.
You can tell how ridiculous a movie is when Henstridge's character learns how to drive a car by watching "The Dukes of Hazard."  The dialogue's even worse, with actor Mykelti Williamson saying some of the oddest things, like "Getting back to Africa on their asses."  The line makes no sense, but it's fitting for a movie with the same problem.Performance-wise, I have to say it's also embarrassingly bad.
Michael Madsen looked like he filmed these movies back to back - he looked exactly the same in this one as he did in the first one.
but it's what you'd call "fun bad."Three years after the escaped alien-human hybrid Sil was destroyed, astronaut Patrick Ross (Justin Lazard) returns from a mission to Mars a changed man...
Now that doesn't sound like a bad plot for a B-movie, however, my main problem was that Natasha Henstridge is hardly in it!
Even though you also have Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger reprise their respective characters, the film spends too much time on those related to sub-plots and a new sidekick who is little more than a wise-cracking helper who's constant slang and (alleged) witticisms about his lack of sex soon become annoying.But, when the story gets it right, it still retains enough of the fun and bloodthirsty chaos of the original to make it just about watchable.
Poor Cash-In Doesn't Have Anything Going For It. Species II (1998)* 1/2 (out of 4) Really bad sequel to the 1995 hit was clearly meant to cash-in on the first film's success as there's not an ounce of proof that anyone was wanting to do something good.
It also makes "Species II" a less effective movie to watch.Also having a male alien this means a less seductive and therefore at the same time also less interesting movie to watch.It has some good elements and nice moments but basically you overall are better off by just sticking to the original.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
Bad sequel to the good original Species.
Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge and Marg Helgenberger, all from the original Species and talented actors, are totally wasted in this film.