Throughout the film, Sil experiences erotic dreams of mating with a male counterpart of herself. “I did try, in some dream sequences, to add a Gigeresque feel to the film,” said Donaldson. “This occurred in the swirling abstract shots where a male and female creature from Sil’s home planet perform an elegant mating ritual that… Read More Eldritch Femme Fatale — Species, Part 3

In spite of the physical distance to the special effects shop, Giger remained an active participant in the design process. Contact with the filmmakers and XFX was maintained on a daily basis through persistent phone calls and faxes, as well as mailed videotapes of special effects sequence dailies. According to Johnson, the calls would sometimes… Read More Eldritch Femme Fatale — Species, Part 2

Content Warning: the article includes discussion and explicit pictures of alien hybrid anatomy, as well as nudity, which may be problematic for readers of a certain sensibility. The original idea for Species came to writer Dennis Feldman while he was working on Real Men. During that time, he read a scientific essay by Arthur C.… Read More Eldritch Femme Fatale — Species, Part 1