d./w./p. Mol Smith; cast:
Dominic O’Flynn, Gina Purcell, Jamie-Jodie Shanks, Sharon Lawrence, Mel Mills
This creepy, trippy sci-fi horror was the promising directorial debut
of the writer-producer behind Tainted
Love. Scientist James, taking time out to recover from losing his wife in a
car crash, finds a meteorite in his garden and receives strange downloads on
his PC. Using these – and a bathtub of hot water – he somehow creates a
mysterious young woman who must be taught from scratch like an infant but
learns very quickly. His friend and former colleague Valerie has some secrets
of her own, including a teenage abortion. A blue guy later appears from the
same bathtub while James experiences horrifying visions of his wife’s death and
frequent ‘timeslips’ to other realities, including one where he and Valerie are
married with kids. There are CGI spaceships in orbit because ‘dark matter’ has
destroyed their home galaxy, or something. Frankly, if you can figure out the
mind-scrambling third act you’re doing better than me. Smith acknowledged his
debt to A for Andromeda, which is
more than the makers of Species ever
did.
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