Species III (2004)

Sara (Sunny Mabrey), the daughter of Eve (Natasha Henstridge) begins her mission to mate with humans, while a specialist military team hunt her down to kill her before its too late.

Director:

Brad Turner

Writers:

Dennis Feldman (characters), Ben Ripley

Stars:

Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Sunny Mabrey

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robin Dunne	...	Dean
Robert Knepper	...	Dr. Abbot
Sunny Mabrey	...	Sara
Amelia Cooke	...	Amelia
John Paul Pitoc	...	Hastings (as J.P. Pitoc)
Michael Warren	...	Agent Wasach
Christopher Neame	...	Dr. Nicholas Turner
Patricia Bethune	...	Colleen
Joel Stoffer	...	Portus
James Leo Ryan	...	Yosef
Savanna Fields	...	Young Sara
Natasha Henstridge	...	Eve
Reed Frerichs	...	ISD Staffer
Marc D. Wilson	...	Crew Chief
Matthew Yang King	...	Specialist Robert Kelley

Storyline

While being transported in a military ambulance and supposed dead, Eve delivers an offspring and is killed by a half-breed. The baby girl is abducted by Dr. Abbot, and a couple of days later she grows up, reaching adulthood and becoming a gorgeous young woman called Sara. Dr. Abbot expects to develop a perfect DNA using Sara's eggs and win the Nobel Prize, and invites the student Dean to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. But while Sara unsuccessfully chases a perfect mate for her to generate a perfect being, the flawed half-breeds led by Amelia try to reproduce with her to survive their species.

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Plot Keywords:

military | student | species | research | direct to video sequel to theatrical movie | 

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Taglines:

Beauty is only skin deep.

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Genres:

Sci-Fi | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore, sexual content and some language

Details

Official Sites:

MGM The Official site for the Species 3 DVD

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 November 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Experiência III

Filming Locations:

166 N Magnolia Ave, Monrovia, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

FGM Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min 112 min (unrated)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Producer Frank Mancuso Jr. wanted the creatures to look slightly different from H.R. Giger's original concept. He did not contribute to the designs in this film and the creatures were redesigned by Rob Hinderstein.

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Goofs

Despite Abbot's lab being the scene of a fight between Sara and the half-breed, just hours later it is once again in neat and fine order, with the only exception being the broken glass in the frame. Look out for the main computer desk, which is the first thing to be trampled in the fight, only to be magically restored in the next scene.

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Quotes

Dean: Come on, she can't be that hot and be a bio-chemist at the same time.
Hastings: Who cares what she is.
Dean: What are you doiing?
Hastings: [types e-mail to her] I'm going to see how crazy this chick is.
[sends it and gets a quick response back]
Hastings: Dude, there's already an answer.
Amelia: [voice from computer] Hi, this is Amelia.
Hastings: Get out your credit card. Dude, I'm in love already.
Amelia: [voice from computer] Before we speak directly, I need to ask you a few questions. Have you done unusual lab work in protoplastic cell suspension, ...
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Connections

Follows Species (1995)

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Soundtracks

"Ten Kinds of Pleasure"
Written by Jerry Brunskill
Performed by Jerry Brunskill

User Reviews

Species III was pretty good.

Don't let the other critics fool you, Species III is a pretty entertaining entry into the species series, true it was to direct to video, but with MGM backing up this installment with Brad Turner taking the helm, you knew it be pretty good. Natasha Henstridge briefly reprises her role as "Eve" to the Species series and gives birth to another alien Sara, who is the latest genetic alien.

This time around though we got an excellent sidestory about the halfbreeds, half human, half alien freaks who don't bother in either class and die out from disease.

Well a couple of more dangerous new half breeders come out to seek Sara in hopes of using her eggs to breed a new race.

The acting is pretty good, the movie has some impressive effects and the movie like the other two sequels is very scary and gory.

The Special Edition DVD comes with four great featurettes, which includes interviews with the cast and crew including the beautiful Natasha Henstridge, commentary and a look back into why the Species series has been so successful.

Looking at the list of complaints the only reason that some people seem to dislike is because is because Henstridge isn't in that much, newsflash people. Natasha's role was basically a cameo appearance.

Its also funny how people bash the Sara character yet in comparison there is no difference between Eve, Sil and Sara other than the age differences. All three characters seduce and kill their human hosts and unleash violence and chaos wherever they go.

Species III is a keeper watch the DVD.