Specimen

Specimen (1996)

After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring back their "specimen"--dead or alive.

Date of release
1996-09-14
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Action, Horror, Science Fiction
Director
John Bradshaw

Casting

Interesting facts

Specimen is a 1996 Canadian science-fiction thriller television film directed by John Bradshaw, based on a story by Bradshaw and producer Damian Lee. It stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar as a young man with superpowers, whose enigmatic past catches up with him just as he begins to investigate it.

Production

Director John Bradshaw is known for having made a number of low-budget thrillers for television, including Specimen.

Though the story's action is mostly set in the fictional American town of Eastfield, principal photography took place in Toronto, 2–23 October 1995. Shooting locations include Centre 55 (corner of Main and Swanwick), a former East Toronto police station built in the 1900s, which served as the Eastfield police station.

Besides the incidental music provided by the Electronic Dream Factory, the song that plays during the opening and end credits is Lawrence Gowan's "Holding This Rage", the final track on his 1990 studio album Lost Brotherhood. Other songs from the same album on the film soundtrack include "Lost Brotherhood" and "Love Makes You Believe", the second song that plays during the end credits.

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