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ksmithSaw the trailer yesterday for Splice. It stars Adrian Brody as one of a pair of scientists who take a genetic experiment a few steps too far, and construct an animal-human hybrid.
The trailer was creepy enough, if predictable. The hybrid grows up and proves impossible to control. It's dangerous, and it gets loose.
The hybrid (or chimera?) is also, in the grand tradition of Species, a female. She is funkier-looking than Natasha Hestridge's monster in a girl suit, but she is still beautiful in an alien way. And she is equipped, according to the photo, with two sets of hands--she walks on one set--and why oh why can't I shake the feeling that some human, likely male, will meet his orgasmic end in the grip of hands.
Willing to be disappointed. It would be a nice change of pace.
Be a nicer change of pace if they'd made a male hybrid...or would that be too dangerous and dominating?
IIRC, the dominating manmade male "aliens" turn out to be computers--Hal, and the computer in Saturn 3 that wanted to breed with Farrah Fawcett--but the females turn out to be more immediate, and touchable, and fuckable.
Granted, I may have missed a few monsters. I don't know if the horror genre--Frankenstein's creature, frex--counts in this context. Though given that the creation-run-amok is as much horror as SF, maybe the creature does count.
No idea where this is going. Guess I'm wondering if they will ever construct an ugly female lab experiment.
The trailer was creepy enough, if predictable. The hybrid grows up and proves impossible to control. It's dangerous, and it gets loose.
The hybrid (or chimera?) is also, in the grand tradition of Species, a female. She is funkier-looking than Natasha Hestridge's monster in a girl suit, but she is still beautiful in an alien way. And she is equipped, according to the photo, with two sets of hands--she walks on one set--and why oh why can't I shake the feeling that some human, likely male, will meet his orgasmic end in the grip of hands.
Willing to be disappointed. It would be a nice change of pace.
Be a nicer change of pace if they'd made a male hybrid...or would that be too dangerous and dominating?
IIRC, the dominating manmade male "aliens" turn out to be computers--Hal, and the computer in Saturn 3 that wanted to breed with Farrah Fawcett--but the females turn out to be more immediate, and touchable, and fuckable.
Granted, I may have missed a few monsters. I don't know if the horror genre--Frankenstein's creature, frex--counts in this context. Though given that the creation-run-amok is as much horror as SF, maybe the creature does count.
No idea where this is going. Guess I'm wondering if they will ever construct an ugly female lab experiment.
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Date: 2010-05-14 02:52 am (UTC)We can also consider Ripleys 1-7 in Alien: Resurrection as ugly female lab experiments. (Of course, they are failed experiments, and 1-6 are dead, but still grotesque.)
In some movies, zombies are manmade (or at least the result of a science experiment gone wrong). They tend to be non-discriminating with regard to gender.
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Date: 2010-05-14 03:54 am (UTC)I did not see Alien:Resurrection. That series ended for me with Aliens, which doesn't negate the argument. It just means I haven't seen it and likely never will.
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