12 Horror Sequels You Should Die Before You See

12. Species II

Featuring two Oscar-winners pursuing an alien disguised as a blonde centrefold around LA, Species was a big enough hit for MGM to knock out this “feeble excuse for a movie” (San Francisco Chronicle) a few years later. It’s basically The Quatermass Xperiment given a studio budget, some name actors and all the blood, violence and bare flesh the target demographic could want.

The results are fabulously tacky. Having been infected with alien DNA, spaceman Justin Lazard, the first man on Mars, breaks sexual quarantine for two sisters who “share everything”, including the stomach-bursting parasites he passes on to them.

This is just the beginning, however, as soon he’s picking up scores of hookers and strippers who promptly bear his fork-tongued offspring (which he keeps in a barn). In one tasteless/hilarious moment, Lazard, pursued by Michael Madsen’s ET hitman, drags a housewife into his van, only for Madsen to pick the wrong vehicle that’s rocking from side to side in broad daylight.