Specimen

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Mark Paul Goesselaar fans won't be disappointed with Specimen. They're probably too young to remember Firestarter or The Terminator so they won't recognize where most of the plot came from. Mike (played by Goesselaar, who was the blonde kid on the original TV show "Saved by the Bell") starts fires with his mind and is probably a spawn from an alien species. He is tracked down by Eleven, a bounty-hunter/racial-cleanser/clean-up-janitor--who knows?--but Eleven really wants to destroy Mike. Most of this chase takes place in the largest community center in the free world. For all its plot and scene pilfering, there's an attempt at originality (Mike has to sleep in the bathtub to keep from burning down the house), but most of the time, this film can barely produce a spark. --Keith Simanton

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27 years ago they came from space to plant a seed in the womb of Carol Hillary. Now they're back to reclaim their own. When a mysterious alien presence shatters the calm of sleepy Spruce Lake, Mark Hillary must face the aliens that created him.

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mark paul gosselaar the world loves you.......2006-12-03

i have met a lot of famous people in my time. my family are of english royal decent. but mark paul gosselaar is the best his acting skills are truly amazing and the ability to make the audience believe what ever he wants them to believe. i have every single film of his in my collection and there is not one i dont dislike.
in this film he plays his character amazingly well and what a great story mark is my favourite actor and i dont know if we shall ever meet again or if he will read this but he is the best at what he does in the world.

buy this film now you wont be dissapointed

lee w frayling. hr7 4js herefordshire england

THE TERMINATOR MEETS FIRESTARTER.......2004-04-16

SPECIMEN is a molding of two other movies: "Firestarter" and "The Terminator." They even have the two aliens appear in the buff, cute little buns and all. Mark Paul Gosselaar plays Mike, a young man who has the ability to start fires; he is the spawn of an alien who impregnated his mother, and the aliens have sent a terminator type guy (played with muscular aloof by Douglas O'Keefe) to bring him back or destroy him (why, they never say). In steps another alien, Andrew Jackson, who we find out has closer ties to Mike.
Mike teams up with a teacher and the local sheriff to understand what's going on; the sheriff (played dead pan by David Kerman) believes the story about Mike's birth, but Mike doesn't. How else can he explain his powers, though?
Low budget and corny, SPECIMEN nevertheless works because there's a modicum of sincerity to its thin storyline. The special effects are chintzy, but the locale is beautiful.

Specimen - A movie so bad it is good.......2002-11-01

I would almost consider the movie "Specimen" a high class "B" movie in the SciFi genre. If you liked the movie "Firestarter" with Drew Barrymore in the '80's, you may like this movie.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Saved By the Bell) actually does a decent job in his role as Mike Hillary. In this, what I consider to be, a low buget film.

Think of "specimen" as an updated version of the movie "Firestarter." Specimen has more of an alien feel to it, on a low budget scale. I am not into "B" type movies. However I can say I liked this movie. A movie so bad it's good.

Recomended for the SciFi or "B" movie fan

Mark-Paul Gosselaar--great!.......2000-05-09

I liked this movie. The story is intriguing. The only problem I had with this movie was with some of the writing--it was a little bit stilted in some places. The character of "Eleven" was just a little bit lame. I thought Mark-Paul Gosselaar was great. He made the character (Mike) believable and sympathetic and made the whole movie watchable and enjoyable. I liked that this movie wasn't just a bunch of scenes jumbled together for effect, but told a slowly unfolding story as it went along.

The keyword is: BATHTUB.......1999-11-03

The singular point of watching this is the considerably lovely footage of MarkPaul Gosselaar, soaking wet, in the bathtub, in his underpants. Otherwise, it's a paperweight.

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mark paul gosselaar the world loves you
THE TERMINATOR MEETS FIRESTARTER
Specimen - A movie so bad it is good
Mark-Paul Gosselaar--great!
The keyword is: BATHTUB

Specimen
Starring: Mark-Paul Gosselaar , Douglas O'Keeffe , Ingrid Kavelaars , Andrew Jackson (II) , and David Kerman
Director: John Bradshaw
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
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ASIN: 6305290814
Release Date: 1999-02-08

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mark paul gosselaar the world loves you.......2006-12-03

THE TERMINATOR MEETS FIRESTARTER.......2004-04-16

Specimen - A movie so bad it is good.......2002-11-01

I would almost consider the movie "Specimen" a high class "B" movie in the SciFi genre. If you liked the movie "Firestarter" with Drew Barrymore in the '80's, you may like this movie.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Saved By the Bell) actually does a decent job in his role as Mike Hillary. In this, what I consider to be, a low buget film.

Recomended for the SciFi or "B" movie fan

Mark-Paul Gosselaar--great!.......2000-05-09

The keyword is: BATHTUB.......1999-11-03

The singular point of watching this is the considerably lovely footage of MarkPaul Gosselaar, soaking wet, in the bathtub, in his underpants. Otherwise, it's a paperweight.

Charlie Rose with Fouad Ajami & Robin Wright; Michael Cunningham (August 17, 2005)

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Charlie Rose with Fouad Ajami & Robin Wright; Michael Cunningham (August 17, 2005)

Manufacturer: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
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A discussion about Iraq with Robin Wright of The Washington Post and Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University. Then, Charlie Rose talks with Michael Cunningham about his latest novel, Specimen Days.

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Not That Good, Not That Bad
Too much like DAY of the TRIFFIDS
poisonous poinsettias
The Outer Limits: Specimen Unknown

Outer Limits: Specimen Unknown
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: 630197686X
Release Date: 1995-09-26

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Not That Good, Not That Bad.......2002-03-27

This episode is neither as bad nor as good as other reviewers hype it up to be. It's a decent middle-of-the-road OL. Highly padded (by virtue of the overlong teaser, which is repeated verbatim in the episode), suffering from really cheap effects, but a decent enough story competently enough presented.

It's the Andromeda Strain, with space barnacles in place of a killer virus. The barnacles grow anywhere, reproduce like kudzu, and exhale a highly toxic gas in the process. The astronauts who discover them don't realize until too late that they are bringing a deadly organism back with them, and the government has one helluva problem on its hands.

The performances are good, and so is the suspense. The effects are pretty cheesy. The production team was badly strapped when this one was shot, but they did a creditable job of making-do in spite of it.

Not a front-runner episode in anyone's book, but enjoyable enough if you like this kind of thing.

Too much like DAY of the TRIFFIDS.......2002-01-27

The plot and the ending bear too much similarity to Day of the Triffids. If you have seen that movie, you will not need to see this video. The decision to allow the spaceship, with its deadly infectious cargo, to land on Earth is a stupid decision - which would not occur in a real situation.

poisonous poinsettias.......2000-10-25

The Official Companion reports that this episode ran undertime so was padded out painstakingly. This padding is noticable in the prologue and the set-up of a spaceship invaded by hitherto dormant space spores who grow into plants which emit lethal vapour. While we aren't shown how the spores managed to get inside the spaceship (one isn't likely to leave the ship door open) the naivety in which they are treated is the real surprise, probably influenced by how pretty they are and what attractive decor they make pre-vapour emittance. The spores resemble mushroom-shaped muffins, and the plants have cobra-like stems and large white petals. When a young Dabney Coleman as a botanist moves his face in for a closer inspection, we know what to expect. This episode was broadcast just after the release of the The Day of the Triffids film and the similarity (and solution to the problem) is evident, though these plants are passive-aggressive. Director Gerd Oswald provides enough suspense however to make this engaging viewing. Once the Earth base has to decide whether to allow the infected-shuttle to land or to be destroyed, the tension begins, aided by composer Dominic Frontiere's use of twittery strings to suggest both alien life and the rapid maturing of the spores into flowers with deadly stigma. This moment of decision is performed like a silent movie. Although the repair of a servomechanism of the shuttle was filmed in slow-mo to add time, the acrobatics are remarkeable, and the image of a bound corpse (the first victim of the vapour) buried in space evocatively gothic. Gail Kobe, who would later be in Keeper of the Purple Twilight, appears as the wife of one of the shuttle crew, and the only female in the cast. I suppose Oswald thought that her being in peril is more potent for the audience than the space shuttle rabbit. I rate this episode highly cos this time around, the "bear" is so feminine.

The Outer Limits: Specimen Unknown.......2000-07-30

Specimen:Unknown may have been the highest rated episode of The Outer Limits, but it is easily the worst episode ever produced. The overlong teaser gives away that the spores are lethal, and if you were fortunate not to see it, the opening sequence reveals the same thing. Further along, when ground control finds out about the lethal plants, they stupidly let the shuttle land, giving the plants an opportunity to spread and possibly kill millions because they listen to the wife of one of the astronauts on board instead of listening to the astronaut. this is one video you should get only if you want the complete Outer Limits on video. Otherwise, forget about buying it.

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