Species II
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Why it matters
An audacious late-90s sci-fi body horror hybrid that cranks up the alien insemination nightmare with gonzo practical effects and a pulsing ’90s aesthetic.
- Escalates the original Species’ mix of eroticism and extraterrestrial menace into full-throttle reproductive terror, leaning hard into body horror territory.
- Natasha Henstridge returns as Eve, offering a rare anchor of cold, alien grace amid the chaos—her conflicted humanity is the film’s best thread.
- Practical creature effects by Stan Winston’s team deliver some genuinely grotesque and inventive transformations that still hold up in the age of CG saturation.
- More alien invasion and less mystery than its predecessor, this is for fans who relish late-90s sci-fi horror excess and aren’t shy about the genre’s more exploitative edges.
Director
3 horror films in catalog
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
85
Slow Burn
33
Psychological
71
Supernatural
20
Creature
91
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
83
Cerebral
0
Survival
50
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