a a big fan of brian yuzna and the majority of the movie he be involve in and i guess i would enjoy progeny . i do not and although in way it have it moments . however and if youre expect something of the calibre of society or beyond reanimator and you could be in for a shock . in a way this be similar to society and be a tale of a seemingly ordinary world with a horrific supernatural underbelly . but that where it end . i be not cover for yuzna when i say that the fault doesn not really lie with him and a bad direction be bad direction and but the direction be sound . what trip the movie up be both script and act . stuart gordon ( reanimator and dagon ) have write an intelligent script and but one that doesn not really work with yuzna style of direction and leave him pause on actor deliver lengthy dialogue when really he want to throw that camera around and get down with his bad self . this matter make the movie awkward enough a it be and but there bad . if the movie have be make with great actor and the movie would have probably hold it own . unfortunately this be very far from the case . the acting be wooden and shockingly so even for a low budget b feature . the inexplicably successful and renowned arnold vosloo wreck every damn line with near pinpoint precision and handing in one of the bad performance i have see in a long while . the man manage to turn every line of well consider dialogue into the kind of ham line you will be throw drunkenly at mate next time youre in the pub . hey bob . good god and be i go mad . whats . come over me . noooo . in fact i may try that one myself next weekend . the last minute addition of genre veteran ( and personal favourite ) brad dourif and instead of enrich the film like it should and almost seem to hand dourif the movie in a last ditch effort to stop vosloo from ham and but quite frankly dourif look deeply uncomfortable ( possibly wait for the next assault of bad act ) next to vosloo and and even an eccentric turn from him fail to resuscitate the film . if the acting be good and this movie would have be okay . hell and it might have be pretty enjoyable and but the lack of character make the movie a soulless affair and and make the horror element seem tack on and tasteless instead of an organic part of the film . i find the alien torture or rape scene a little difficult to stomach already and but the fact that the character be so lack make them seem gratuitous as well a unpleasant and leave a nasty taste in the mouth . so and if you really like sci fi and do not have a problem with bad act and pedestrian pacing and a really garish and nasty rape scene and progeny will probably be your cup of tea . but since i do and i be probably never go to watch it again . once be enough . on the plus side and this be the only sci fi movie yuzna ever bother to make and so he obviously wasn not really that pleased with it himself .