Triskaidekafiles

Triskaidekafiles is a love letter to cheesy cinema from the 80s and 90s, with the occasional dip into other eras.  if you're a fan of MST3K, Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs, or just bad horror movies in general, Trisk is the place for you.

Filtering by Tag: Species series

Species: The Awakening (2007)

SPECIES: THE AWAKENING

WRITER: Ben Ripley

DIRECTOR: Nick Lyon

STARRING: Ben Cross as Tom
    Helena Mattsson as Miranda
    Dominic Keating as Forbes
    Marlene Favela as Azura

QUICK CUT: The Species series carries on and heads to Mexico when a young woman discovers she's an alien human hybrid and has a higher than usual desire to mate with men.

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Species 3 (2004)

SPECIES 3

WRITER: Ben Ripley

DIRECTOR: Brad Turner

STARRING: Robin Dunne as Dean
    Robert Knepper as Dr. Abbot
    Amelia Cooke as Amelia
    J.P. Pitoc as Hastings
    Michael Warren as Agent Wasach
    Christopher Neame as Dr. Nicholas Turner
    Patricia Bethune as Colleen
    Joel Stoffer as Portus
    James Leo Ryan as Yosef
    Savanna Fields as Young Sara
    Natasha Henstridge as Eve
    Sunny Mabrey as Sara

QUICK CUT: The hybrid aliens are back for more killing and screwing, but this time Eve is out of the picture, and we focus on a new generation of alien sex machines.  Which is the name of my Nickleback cover band.

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Species 2 (1998)

SPECIES 2

WRITER: Chris Brancato

DIRECTOR: Peter Medak

STARRING: Michael Madsen as Preston Lennox
   Natasha Henstridge as Eve
   Marg Helgenberger as Laura Baker
   Mykelti Williamson as Gamble
   George Dzundza as Colonel Burgess
   James Cromwell as Senator Ross
   Myriam Cyr as Anne Sampras
   Sarah Wynter as Melissa
   Baxter Harris as Dr. Orinsky
   Justin Lazard as Patrick Ross

QUICK CUT: Sil's back, but this time she's Eve.  But not evil.  She's on our side, and fighting to stop a new strain of her alien parental DNA strand when it's brought back to Earth during our first manned mission to Mars.  Even though that's not how we got the strand in the first place.  More sex, violence, and plot holes in the Species tradition ensues.

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Species (1995)

SPECIES

WRITTEN BY: Dennis Feldman

DIRECTED BY: Roger Donaldson

STARRING: Ben Kingsley as Xavier Fitch
   Michael Madsen as Preston Lennox
   Alfred Molina as Stephen Arden
   Forest Whitaker as Dan Smithson
   Marg Helgenberger as Dr. Laura Baker
   Michelle Williams as Young Sil
   Natasha Henstridge as Sil

Quick Cut: After receiving the code for alien DNA in a response to our SETI experiments, scientists create a human/alien hybrid creature.  Once she escapes and feels the biological imperative to breed, a ragtag team of scientists and a mercenary try to track her down before she makes the human race irrelevant.

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