Inseminoid is a 1981 British science fiction horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke and Stephanie Beacham, along with Victoria Tennant in one of her early film roles. The plot concerns a team of archaeologists and scientists who are excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet. One of the women in the team (Geeson) is impregnated by an alien creature and taken over by a mysterious intelligence, driving her to murder her colleagues one by one and feed on them.
Theatrical release poster
The rocky interior of Gozo, where the crew spent two days filming, represents the planet's surface.
Nick Maley's effects work included the puppets of the alien twins. In this shot, one of them is revealed to have killed Sharon (Heather Wright).
Sandy (Judy Geeson) is impregnated. Peter Wright believes that this scene displays conflicting attitudes to reproduction: while the alien phallus (bottom image) promotes fertilisation, Karl injecting Sandy's arm with a phallic hypodermic needle (top image, bottom-left corner) suppresses it. In a 1997 interview, Warren said that the phallus was intended to be "some kind of artificial insemination equipment" rather than a penis, adding that for censorship reasons, the impregnation scene was shot "very
Norman John Warren was an English film director best known for such 1970s horror films as Satan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977) and Terror (1978). Warren is also known for sex comedies such as Outer Touch.
Warren in 2016