Species: The Awakening

A scientist, Dr Holander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.

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Film Cast:

  • Miranda Hollander: Helena Mattsson
  • Tom Hollander: Ben Cross
  • Forbes: Dominic Keating
  • Azura: Marlene Favela
  • Celeste: Meagen Fay
  • Leland Fisk: Roger Cudney
  • Dalton: Mauricio Martínez
  • Calderón: Edy Arellano
  • Rinaldo: Marco Bacuzzi
  • Collette: Cynthia Francesconi
  • Student #2: Jan Bouda
  • Dancing Girl: Montserrat de León
  • Technician: German Fabregat
  • Mexican Boy #1: Kristyan Ferrer
  • Trauma Nurse: Alejandra Gollas
  • Mexican Boy #2: Alizair Gomez
  • Student #3: Eleazar Gómez
  • Student #1: Harding Junior
  • Jogger: Gregg Lucas
  • Paramedic: Adrian Makala
  • Church Warden: Jorge Malpica
  • Dance Partner: Jorge Robles
  • Burke (uncredited): Felipe de Lara
  • Logan Wilson – ER Resident (uncredited): Julian Sedgwick
  • Jared (uncredited): Adam Wylie

Film Crew:

  • Director: Nick Lyon
  • Producer: Frank Mancuso Jr.
  • Producer: Lorenzo O’Brien
  • Casting: Paul Weber
  • Costume Design: Adela Cortázar
  • Director of Photography: Jaime Reynoso
  • Conductor: Paul Cristo
  • Music: Kevin Haskins
  • Production Design: Cecilia Montiel
  • Makeup Department Head: Felipe Salazar
  • Casting Director: Claudia Becker
  • Characters: Dennis Feldman
  • Co-Producer: Aaron Mazzolini
  • Executive In Charge Of Post Production: David Gaines
  • Assistant Director: Frederic Henocque
  • Property Master: Jorge Lara
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Alec St. John
  • Visual Effects: Patrick Phillips
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Doug Campbell
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: J.M. Logan
  • Gaffer: Juan Fernando Guzmán
  • Second Unit Director: René Richter
  • Casting Associate: Ivy Isenberg
  • Art Direction: Diana Quiroz
  • Art Direction: Diego Sandoval
  • Set Decoration: Joaquín de la Riva
  • Assistant Makeup Artist: Araceli E. Ríos García
  • Key Hairdresser: Gerardo Perez Arreola
  • Makeup Artist: Nury Alamo
  • Special Effects Makeup Artist: Fernando Legarreta
  • Special Effects Makeup Artist: Isaac Lanado Chavira
  • Special Effects Makeup Artist: Antonio Garfias
  • Art Department Coordinator: Ana Lilia Aldana Maldonado
  • Art Designer: Damian Gajardo Schneider
  • Assistant Property Master: Fernando Agustin Neri
  • Conceptual Design: Danelle Vierkant
  • Head Carpenter: Carlos Sánchez
  • Leadman: Rene Corona
  • Painter: Marco Aguilar Zúñiga
  • Painter: Rogelio Escobar Baballero
  • Painter: Andrés Yahir Hernández
  • Swing: Daniel Chávez
  • Swing: Enrique Garcia Mejia
  • CG Supervisor: Scott Ballard
  • CG Supervisor: Semin Tho
  • 3D Artist: Steven Lawrence
  • Visual Effects Compositor: Jonathan Bliss
  • Visual Effects Producer: Joe Russo
  • Visual Effects Producer: Stephen W. Pugh
  • Visual Effects Producer: Eva Prelle
  • Visual Effects Producer: Kay Sasatomi
  • Visual Effects Production Manager: Zack Fox
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Takahiko Akiyama
  • Best Boy Electric: Juan José Martínez
  • Best Boy Grip: Irving Huitron Aranda
  • Dolly Grip: Gabriel García
  • Electrician: Juan Manuel Alvarez
  • Electrician: Fernando Coria
  • Electrician: Omar Huitrón
  • Electrician: Roberto Oviedo
  • First Assistant “A” Camera: Joaquin Cervera
  • First Assistant “B” Camera: Gustavo Castillón
  • Key Grip: José Francisco García
  • Steadycam: Gerardo Manjarrez
  • Editor: Robert Komatsu
  • ADR Mixer: Chris Navarro
  • Assistant Sound Editor: Chato Hill
  • Boom Operator: Guillermo Bermúdez
  • Dialogue Editor: Danielle Ghent
  • Foley Artist: Gregg Barbanell
  • Foley Artist: Pamela Kahn
  • Foley Mixer: Lucy Sustar
  • Sound Effects Editor: Jonathan Coomes
  • Sound Effects Editor: Eric Raber
  • Sound Mixer: Santiago Núñez
  • Sound Mixer: Gabriel Coll
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Derek Marcil
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Getty
  • Extras Casting Assistant: Lucía de la Fuente
  • Extras Casting Assistant: José A. Ferrer
  • Extras Casting Coordinator: Jose Manuel Schivy
  • Costume Assistant: Mariana Mazon
  • Costume Assistant: Abigail Alfonso Palacios
  • Assistant Editor: Kevin Lefler
  • Colorist: Robert Tomaszewski
  • Online Editor: Pete Fausone
  • Music Editor: Philip Tallman
  • Dialogue Coach: Tina French
  • Dialogue Coach: Neti Quiroz
  • Production Coordinator: Monica Ovando
  • Production Coordinator: Sibyla Fernández
  • Title Designer: Radu Somesfalean
  • Driver: Jesús Reyes
  • Special Effects Technician: Matt Falletta
  • Driver: Sergio Galicia
  • Concept Artist: Carlos Lagunas
  • VFX Artist: John Karner
  • Screenplay: Ben Ripley

Movie Reviews:

  • CinemaSerf: I wonder if, when Ben Cross walked onto the set here for the first time, he considered that as career nadirs go, this is almost as bad as Jeffrey Hunter’s. No more “Chariots of Fire” (1981) just the other kind of chariot that swings low – and very low at that. This time, our sex-pest alien is dying. It falls to scientist “Tom” (Cross) to race to Mexico to start injecting her (his niece!!) with life-preserving drugs. Of course, though, those drugs trigger in “Miranda” (Helena Mattsson) her far more visceral instincts and with carnage ensuing it’s a race against time to arrest the violent mating season. The whole thing is poor: the writing, the visual effects and the story could all have be cobbled together by some drama students after a day on the weed and the tequila. The acting is frankly pretty woeful and the star’s accent is all over the place. There must have been some appetite for this – has it become cult? Anyway – I really wouldn’t bother if I were you.

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