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Progeny
What The Astronaut's Wife only to dared hint at, Progeny gives full
frontal exposure. A doctor's wife is abducted from the marital bed and impregnated by
monstrous aliens disguised as ethereal X-Files style phantasms. Her weirdly
erotic dreams are revealed under hypnotic regression to be glossed over, and distinctly
unsanitary, memories of rape. Arnold Vosloo (villain of The Mummy, henchman of
Hard Target) here plays hero and baffled husband, while Wilford Brimley puts in
an appearance as concerned authority figure and Vosloo's doomed mentor. Brad Dourif
completes the main characters, as a disreputable author of UFO books contacted by the
disbelieving but anxious doc. The slimy effects are done well and the grand finale in a
hijacked hospital operating theatre is suitably tense, despite the less than
satisfactory ending. As so often happens, the lesser of the films on this theme
mentioned here (The Astronaut's Wife) unaccountably received a full cinema
release, while this clearly superior offering is released direct to video. Unsubtle
Progeny may be, but unlike the aforementioned Johnny Depp vehicle, this
SF-horror shocker confronts its admittedly ridiculous subject matter instead of merely
alluding to it. DOWSE
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