Species – The Awakening

Species: The Awakening
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Based on	Characters by Dennis Feldman
Written by	Ben Ripley
Directed by	Nick Lyon
Starring	Ben Cross Helena Mattsson Dominic Keating Marlene Favela
Music by	Kevin Haskins Paul Cristo
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Frank Mancuso Jr. Lorenzo O'Brien
Cinematography	Jaime Reynoso
Editor(s)	Robert Komatsu
Running time	98 minutes
Distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release
Original network	Syfy
Original release	September 29, 2007

Species: The Awakening is a 2007 science fiction thriller film and the fourth installment of the Species film series. The film was directed by Nick Lyon and starring Ben Cross, Helena Mattsson, Dominic Keating and Marlene Favela. It is the first film of the Species series that does not feature Natasha Henstridge. The film premiered on the American broadcast, the Sci-Fi Channel on September 29, 2007 and was released on DVD on October 2, 2007.

Miranda Hollander (Helena Mattsson) is a beautiful and smart young woman. She is a college professor and lives with her "uncle", Tom Hollander (Ben Cross) who works in a museum; he adopted her after a car crash killed her parents. Miranda can read books just by touching them, without even needing to open them. Miranda believes that she has lived with her "uncle" ever since her parents were killed in an accident while she was a baby. After her birthday, Miranda passes out and is sent to a local hospital. Tom is notified by the police. When Miranda arrives at the hospital, she silently transforms into alien form, strips naked and seduces and kills a few people. When Tom finally arrives at the hospital the following morning, he finds bodies everywhere. Tom locates Miranda, injects her with human hormones and begins driving her to Mexico.

On the way to Mexico, Miranda wakes up, asking for the cause of her 'illness'. Tom tells Miranda that she is the result of an experiment that combined human and alien DNA, an experiment conducted with his friend Forbes McGuire (Dominic Keating) while they were both still in college. Tom has been injecting her with human hormones since her childhood to suppress her alien DNA (thus she never entered a cocoon stage and aged like a normal human). Her parents never existed; they were just a fiction created by Tom to help build up Miranda's "normal life". Tom explains he and Forbes parted ways because of differences of opinion over their vision of their creation.