Director: Marion Le Corroller.
Cast: Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali.
France/Belgium 2026. 103 mins.
UK PREMIERE - A junior doctor falls victim to a mysterious, life-threatening sickness in French writer-director Marion Le Corroller’s debut feature, a darkly comic sci-fi body-horror thriller with a deeper allegorical message about workplace burn-out in high-pressure capitalist societies. Margot Loiseau (Mara Taquin), a young intern at the most competitive Emergency Room in the country, has trouble keeping up in this exhausting and anxiety-ridden environment. With stand-out and unique body-mutation sequences created by special make-up effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin, who won an Oscar for THE SUBSTANCE, SPECIES is an exciting and exhilarating Gen Z shocker and your next obsession.
SPECIES (SANGUINE)
MONDAY 31 8:55 PM
SPECIES (SANGUINE)
Director: Marion Le Corroller. Cast: Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali. France/Belgium 2026. 103 mins.
MONDAY 31 6:30 PM
UK PREMIERE - A junior doctor falls victim to a mysterious, life-threatening sickness in French writer-director Marion Le Corroller’s debut feature, a darkly comic sci-fi body-horror thriller with a deeper allegorical message about workplace burn-out in high-pressure capitalist societies. Margot Loiseau (Mara Taquin), a young intern at the most competitive Emergency Room in the country, has trouble keeping up in this exhausting and anxiety-ridden environment. With stand-out and unique body-mutation sequences created by special make-up effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin, who won an Oscar for THE SUBSTANCE, SPECIES is an exciting and exhilarating Gen Z shocker and your next obsession.