SPECIES (1995) | The Alien Cocoon Hatches | MGM

A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.
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Species (1995)
Directed By: Roger Donaldson
Written By: Dennis Feldman
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge
Rated R for sci-fi violence, strong sexuality and some language
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[@TommyRayzer]

The level of sheer incompetence displayed here is amazing. A quarantine room with holes in the floor. Letting that thing grow in such a flimsy container. Having an "instant incineration" button that is set on a 2 minute delay. Moaning at the guy to let them out when all any of them had to do was press a single button.

[@lukea136]

It's possible that through the holes there was nowhere to go...

[@DeltaSierra181]

1995 - what a wonderful time.

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

I still live in 1996.

[@kevinwong8693]

This movie brings back some some fond memories with a box of tissues on the old VCR

[@rayH357]

lol

[@iCANT_BELIEVE_YOU_SAID_THAT]

Why would they design a floor with holes on them in a quarantine room? 😅😅

[@josepartida1711]

It was the 90s. We were just silly designers back them.

[@culteducube4108]

To have plot holes

[@baloog8]

It might be to have drainage into a bio-concentrator aka collector. It also allows flames from under to burn the whole room.. apparently..

[@gerarderloper]

its quite sensible, bio-hazard wise (burn/acid/flush). However welding them down seems like a bit of a oopsies.

[@internationalartprojects8660]

E. All of the above.

[@rovermiles1]

Well, there goes our 360 days without an OSHA incident.

[@id104335409]

Pushing that green button to let them out was the hardest decision these few had to make in their whole life. Almost as hard as trying to decide what pizza they want to order.

[@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO]

Hmmm.... Pineapple and Canadian bacon, or the Whole World turns into a slimy alien mess...

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

Oh I agree with Ben Kingsley in this, if you wanna study an Alien life for, fine. But you sign a contract where if anything goes wrong, you die. I'd totally have pushed that red button.

[@baloog8]

​@@The_Greedy_Orphanbut the cellular growth was still microscopic for 20 seconds. He should've said just leave the room then. And when it was still bubbling, it would've been extreme low risk still.

[@jamesm.5125]

Ok, I take it back, Prometheus and Covenant aren't the worst written containment/decontamination procedures run by the dumbest scientists in movie history.

[@legitbeans9078]

Species was so dumb it felt like the writer and director were trolling the audience.

[@jamesharren3882]

Neckbeards unite! 🧔🤓

[@RukudoSage69]

I feel both films were purposely giving lessons on what to do and not do.

[@nickl6715]

Don't forget Life

[@ezekialalvarado2444]

🤣🤣🤣

[@playerish]

Fun fact: designer of Sil alien was the same guy who did Alien 1979

[@ouranos0101]

H R GIGER. Put a name on it. This man is a god.

[@develynseether4426]

​@@ouranos0101 I've been to 2 art displays of his in London, UK. Absolutely incredible

[@Hauerization]

Even lesser known fact; he also did the creature the dad vomits up in Poltergiest 2.

[@develynseether4426]

@@Hauerization possibly even lesser known, suffered from night terrors, he used to draw his fears and is how he came up with the 'Alien' concept. Also had a fear of flying, causing Ridley Scott to have to visit him for the Alien ideas.

[@GhilenPeek]

Fell in love with Natasha from this movie.

[@Valisk]

Totally worth the risk.

[@Iron-Bridge]

Two Oscar winners, a CSI series protagonist, regular Quentin Tarantino film actor and future Doctor Octopus were in this schlock.

[@eyeseer1]

H.R. Giger who did the Sil monster also made the xeniomorphs in Alien.

[@eyeseer1]

Michelle Williams was also in this.

[@tylerdude1982]

they were in this great movie

[@PeterT-i1w]

well, it was around the time when Kingsley started to do anything for money (it's called prostitution), and the rest of them just followed his lead.

[@abcatos]

Not letting them out when that germ was growing. And then squabbling over that and giving cuss words. Getting frustrated and then letting them out. Who wrote this scene 🤦😂😂😂🤦

[@baloog8]

I dunno but if you ever get married or date someone who does screenplay, make sure it wasn't the person who wrote this movie.

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

This is peak 90s cinema!

[@mariusg8824]

Come on, that's exactly how such a situation would play out.

[@martintremethick8370]

IKEA containment cabinet

[@misterbig9025]

I want to see the part when Natasha was doing the adult part!

[@michaelanderson3096]

@@misterbig9025 lol

[@jamesharren3882]

netflix or buy the bluray.

[@kylemose8874]

just go to a naughty website, someone probably uploaded it

[@mturner89]

The other people could EASILY have opened the door. They didn't have to sit there and stare at Kingsley not opening it. Hit the button dudes. Hit the button Forrester

[@bskilla4892]

I like the relaxing music at the end

[@pablopaul6371]

The bolt feel through the floor? What a bummer.

[@drumdude46]

One of the Best Comedies of the 90s!

[@Mithrahin]

And there you have Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley and Forest Whitaker talking about an alien cocoon.

[@lifewriter7455]

A bolt gone missing. So typical 90s. 😎🖤👍

[@LONELY-VISUAL]

Why didn't Doctor Octopus transform?eh.....🤔🙄

[@theintrosproject8598]

the bald guy made me so angry lol

[@sharonjensen3016]

He meets his maker towards the end.

[@shadowbeast2276]

There was no reason why he couldn't have let them out before burning the room.

[@NeoKingAdonis]

People who leave comments like this are the reason the world would end if y’all was in this situation. They knew the protocols.

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

Micro reasons.... So tiny you cannot see them. Called "germs"

[@619AGT]

@@NeoKingAdonisProtocol or no protocol, there was no excuse to keep them in there. And last time I checked, wasn’t the cocoon already contained while they were in the chamber?

[@williamrobinson4265]

people who do work like this no what sacrifices they would have to make and do so willingly, for your benefit these are paid actors in a movie but real life situations like this do exist and please show some respect for the willing sacrifices many people make and the trust they have in their teammates

[@kingbeef66]

@@williamrobinson4265 Still, if there was a huge gap of time to get the people out while the thing is far from the door, then you don’t behave like a machine and sacrifice their lives anyway.

[@Syveck]

0:34 is that the LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

[@alexpozniak4106]

Why would the containment box have bolts that have to be fully removed to open and close it?

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

The gratuitous nudity from the 80s and 90s was just glorious😂. This movie was NO exception.

[@weekdaycycling]

Why did they design the decontamination room with sections of grated flooring if they had to use bolts to lock/unlock a chamber?

[@mariusg8824]

It was the 1990s, Osha violations happened on a daily basis

[@DerekHoscorner]

Awesomeness job

[@MinhFong-p6m]

I’m rooting for the alien. Feed. Baby feed!

[@emanuel82]

I remember i had big expectations for this movie. I havent seen it since.

[@connorw2k]

I didn't know Jeff Bezos was an actor

[@derrickstorm6976]

Oh I get it, they're both bald! Haha :D

[@artismmedina4138]

That’s Ben Kingsley

[@mailliw8647]

That's not ben Kingsley...it's Ghandi

[@Mel-81]

Vin Diesel ⛽

[@Mel-81]

Ghahaha Jesus

[@elrikard7909]

Wow big names in this scene.

[@Censor-Target]

This is how they make 'meat alternative' dishes.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox1880]

I like your avatar

[@abinodattil6422]

😊😊😊😂😂😂😂

[@gerarderloper]

If only we could grow meat this fast, solve a heck of a lot of problems!

[@mvc9178]

Lol

[@voidw4lker]

This is completely ridiculous! So many pipes, niches, and holes in a room that’s supposed to be easy to sterilize. And then they send in two people with nothing but COVID protective gear? I love H.R. Giger's designs, but aside from the creature design, this film has aged incredibly poorly... it's almost unwatchable. O_o

[@ChrisS-no3ft]

He's too old now, but when they recast the role of Khan from Star Trek for the new movies, Kingsley should have played him. First off, he played Ghandi, so he has played an Indian before. But Ricardo Montalban had such a presence, and the intensity in his eyes was striking. But look at Kingsley's face. Look at those eyes. Its as if there is a vicious man waiting to be unleashed if provoked. He would have been my choice. Not even a doubt. Kingsley going toe-to-toe with Kirk? Wow!

[@kevone-eo6pq]

you have way too much time on your hands.

[@Garbalinok]

When you make yeast bread and you go do dishes.

[@dk5468]

Worst quarantine protocols ever.

[@quenxdaji4783]

Where to watch the movie pls

[@Mindraker1]

1995 CW: A mask can protect you from an alien invasion 2019 CW: A mask can protect you from an alien infection

[@kingsnake23]

2:09, 2:18, 2:23 Michael Madsen is a mad man.

[@devendrajoshi4954]

I was born at the same-time,”son of morning”

[@mattlemmons6647]

They lost me at the moment, in a SCIENCE fiction movie, when the alien organism could grow grow from a single cell to a gigantic gooey thing with no source of mass.

[@dclipper8052]

I'm on board with your line of thinking but it could be argued that it draws CO2 from the air and processes it the same way trees do. The rate of growth is still entirely suspect, though.

[@ryanwarner5006]

Yep. That is why all these self regerating aliens are nonsense

[@benjaminjackboot6409]

​@@dclipper8052 Also Oxygen.

[@natereid2144]

I wouldn't let them change the oil in my lawnmower

[@gsm156]

I thought this was a great film way back when! I do not hold these same views today!

[@borusa32]

This movie is like The Quatermss Experiment if Nigel Kneale was on another project and they asked Sooty and Sweep to write the screenplay.

[@bigmaxy07]

This was basically what we did in 2020 when someone didn't social distance properly.

[@gerarderloper]

The thing I always found interesting in these kinds of scenes, is. Where does the organism get its new biomass from? AIR? is it absorbing the containment vessel? Sure some growth can happen but eventually the cells need more fuel and food to expand. Lots of movies make this mistake btw. But it is just sci-fiction, I just wish they maybe included a plot device that explained it, like it breaks into the water storage container or something.

[@crow-dont-know]

Wow! What an incredible cast for such a dreadful film!

[@experimental_microbiology]

Ночной кошмар микробиолога 😂

[@namu5583]

Good movie.

[@Anesa100]

They know the procedure and still do the ruckus

[@Manu-p4v1b]

Alien vous a ripper!

[@Alex861697]

Humanity has its flaws

[@maringal44]

why not open the door at the beginning

[@sitaroartworks]

The protocol for coward scientists.

[@khonsenwright4986]

He never said why couldnt he open the door Like, simce the alien was still contained, why not let them out and then burn the entire room 💀

[@davidreyes665]

Dr octopus and the manderain and T Chaka

[@pillepolle3122]

I HATE every movie where some lifeform just grows really big without comsuming nutrients.

[@pasques]

I don’t get it. He had a chance to let them out.

[@mercuriocavaldi2208]

They should have followed the protocol.

[@veramae4098]

Or add a safe room, a decontamination / test chamber, give them a second chance.

[@kingbeef66]

They weren’t told about the protocols at all.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

Imagine if the Chinese had this option in the Wuhan lab, we could've avoided Covid altogether.

[@Doomthulsa]

Watching this on mute.. it's an awesome slapstick comedy.

[@The_Curious_Cat]

Why let them out while the thing is tiny and you can burn the container, if you can shout and have lots of drama and end up breaking protocol anyway when it's even more dangerous? lol

[@jodrhh]

No wonder covid got out of the lab....

[@jumarcolite6797]

Title please

[@TomatrontheOne]

Species

[@charleslaine]

It's a silly scene with a dropped bolt falling through the grated floor... but not too far fetched. In 1980 a nuclear tipped missile exploded in its Silo while undergoing routine maintenance. The cause of the explosion... one of the workers dropped a wrench that fell to a lower portion of the missle where it punctured the skin of the rocket. A bit later the entire silo exploded in a massive fireball caused by the fuel leak. All because a dude dropped a wrench!

[@Hale-Bopp]

Why can't they just open the door and then close it again as soon as they both get out.. What the F!?

[@FelixAlexander-lh6st]

This is a bold movie

[@Biomechan]

This is how Covid started

[@I.Odnamra]

You clumsy. You ded. Simple.

[@quidproquo82]

The 90s had so many silly movies

[@benjaminjackboot6409]

This can be done better by a remake nowadays. But, instead of Sydney Sweeney as Sil, i consider Alejandra Guilmant as a better option for Sil.

[@saintsinningsword]

Just annoying to see now how protocols are made exactly so things that are not to breach containment, breach containment. Bio weapons and diseases are an example.

[@dettomicco84]

Ridiculous scene..

[@petesmith9608]

You mean to tell me that after beating Dusting Hoffman, Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole and Jack Lemmon for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in 1982's "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley did this silly cocoon thing movie?????, man!, what a downgrade.

[@cesara.borges9698]

☝️☝️☝️ This Scene explain why not the embryo for chestbusters; but also the Xenomorph growing so fast... Even the Sill and the Xenomorphs are create for HR Gigger and this explain all...

[@infinitequest0424]

No Mother or Father invention Woe

[@G1Grimlock94]

3:44 Not dead yet

[@michaelanderson3096]

Demons can see through the eyes of other people.

[@kingbeef66]

Well SIL is practically a Succubus in retrospect.

[@michaelanderson3096]

@@kingbeef66 Elaborate ???

[@LordRambo]

The demons will go away if you take your pills 💊

[@michaelanderson3096]

@@LordRambo They are real. The Book of Legions in the Bible. They can also interfere with radio frequencies - sim cards, emails, mastercards / Debit cards etc....

[@mikeoxsbigg1]

Nobody punched Jeff bezos?

[@EdBenji]

This is fk'n silly!!

[@Martillo81015]

Other than the very beautiful lead actress this movie was garbage. Especially considering all of the talent in it

[@user-yc9ig1nl2h]

ᅠᅠᅠ ᅠ ᅠ

[@asahearts1]

I concur

[@kevone-eo6pq]

yep.

[@serkandemirhanofficial]

What an idiotic scene.

[@Igoorboy]

B-but the protocol 😢

[@vanessajazp6341]

Man this is some REALLY bad writing and directing.

[@timothypruitt4578]

Poorly designed quarantine room. Likely a government operation where design and construction of the room went to the lowest bidder.