12 Sequels That Forgot The End Of The Last Movie

By Simon Gallagher /

6. Species II

MGM

The Ending

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At the end of Species, despite the fact that raunchy alien Sil and her evil offspring are destroyed, their legacy lives on in the form of a rat, which is seen feeding on one of her severed tentacles and then mutating and attacking another rat, as if possessed.

Surely this would set up a sequel in which a rat monster was going to terrorise everyone?

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But Then...

Well, no actually, because the sequel completely ignores the rat infection and skips ahead three years to tell the story of an infection that unwittingly happens on a mission to Mars and a clone of original alien villain Sil who has been genetically subdued to not want to have sex with and murder everyone.

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There is absolutely no mention of any killer rat monsters to speak of, disappointingly. It might have been a better movie if there had been...