'Species IV: The Awakening' (2007) – Nick Lyon.

 

Not even aware, some might say blissfully, that the H. R Giger-designed 'Species' had spawned a sequel, much less a blood-thirsty brood of four, I tentatively watched 'Species IV' with only modest interest, and having so little expectation of it being good proved advantageous, as Nick Lyon's enjoyably saucy, frequently trashy Sf/Horror Hybrid is more effective if taken as a retrograde 50s style mad scientist monster mash! In this case two mad scientists dabble with extraterrestrial DNA, their cavalier approach to cryptid-science bears especially lissome fruit in the delectably nubile, beach bunny blonde guise of Miranda (Helena Mattson) who later in life finds that her tenure as a brilliant, upwardly mobile college lecturer is about to be monstrously derailed by her errant Alien DNA, and once she violently succumbs to her murderous desire to feed upon living anthropoidal meat, her scientist uncle/creator, energetically played by Ben Cross must dramatically confront the myriad medical misdeeds of his shady past in the vain hope of securing a future for his biologically conflicted, perkily put-together protege. The final act is a bombastic B-Movie bonanza of snake tongued, scaly-faced succubi on snake tongued, scaly-faced succubi action, and sometimes that's about all a mentally degraded monster movie freak like me needs!