Species IV: The Awakening

Species IV: The Awakening (2007): This is kind of a Jekyll and Hyde type of flick in that at times it is quite exciting and at others, the lack of any logic makes it seem kind of ridiculous. It also has a beautiful girl who frequently turns into a man eating monster in keeping with the Jekyll and Hyde genre. This is the fourth in the series which has as its main premise that scientists have genetically manipulated a beautiful blond with alien DNA which on occasion causes her to terminally mate with a handy male. In this case our lovely blonde is a college professor working with her uncle. She gets a bit of a funny feeling one night, goes bonkers, converts into a hideous deadly alien while mating and winds up nude in the woods. Brought to a local hospital, she manages to off about 2 floors worth of staff before her uncle injects her with some hormones and zings her back into humanity. Golly, her old uncle was really a genetic scientist who DNA’d her into her present condition and for about 25 years she’s been normal. Now they head off to Mexico to find his former associate and perhaps also to escape multiple murder charges. His ex-partner apparently is still playing with alien DNA and may be able to help keep our blond, blond rather than all scaly and horny. He left his partner for moral reasons but kept the blond….hmmm.

On the way to Mexico, our professor tells the girl the truth and shows her she can read a book by its cover…really. She touches a book and absorbs the content. Apparently she hadn’t noticed in the last 25 years that no one else she knows can do that. This concept is just a bit hard to buy into!

While wandering around old Mexico, our professor gets a tip from a fellow American about his ex-buddy and takes the suggested cab that is supposed to take him to his supposed friend. But the cab driver turns out to be an alienized male with super strength and tries to kill him. Luckily, he manages to escape and kill the cabbie and is a little angry at the American tipster. He gets another tip from the tipster and almost gets tipped over by an alienized female dressed like a nun who can leap tall buildings at a single bound plus kill with her lance like tongue as well as firing tongue bits into your head for extra lethality. He escapes but when our professor finally finds his ex-friend scientist, he is doing the nasty with this nun-gal-thing and no one seems to mind about her assassination attempt the night before or the lethal cab driver. Ridiculous!!

Well, they do some mumbo jumbo on the blonde to cure her but seem to convert her into a really nasty person who goes off, turns alien and wipes out a bunch of folks and is intending to repopulate the earth with her kids. The ex-nun thing then tries to get lethal with the professor again for no apparent reason. The professor appears to kill the nun-thing and our ex-blond, now all scales, horns and ooze, kills his ex-partner. The nun-thing suddenly recovers and goes after the professor again but ex-blond apparently has a few human DNA bits left and the two women (and I use that term in its loosest connotation) have a big finale cat fight or should it be horny scaly thing fight? They then both die. This whole thing made no sense at all but had plenty of violence, sex, and naked women so I can’t condemn it too much. The movie was unrated but would probably mutate into an R for: multiple naked blonds, naked aliens, horny aliens, lethal tongues, deadly tongue darts, multiple injections, multiple lost plotlines, horrible lack of logic, and especially for that building leaping, tongue firing, horny alien nun.