While Elsa mothered and protected the humanoid female that was generated, Clive strongly desired to destroy it. Elsa named it DREN ("NERD" spelled backwards), the name of the couple's company. Soon, it evolved into a bald, partly-human mutant adult female (Delphine Chaneac) - a fantastical creature with striking slanted eyes, pointed tongue, a toxic tail-stinger, and bird-like, multi-hinged legs. With her maternal instincts enlivened, Elsa seduced Clive on their couch one evening (with DREN observing from afar), and declined to have him use a condom (she remarked: "What's the worst that could happen?").
As the film progressed, the uncontrollable, troublesome and 'monstrous' female DREN was hidden at Elsa's childhood farmhouse home, where It was revealed that Elsa had used samples of her own DNA to create DREN. When DREN became more troublesome and unstable, Elsa reverted to scientifically studying the creature, and bound DREN on a table. She stripped DREN of her 'human' elements, including clothing, and surgically removed her tail-stinger.
In the film's most remarkable scene of alien-human sex (with hints of bestiality and incest), Clive was attracted to the infatuated DREN, and had unconventional intercourse with the creature when she wrapped her winged-arms around him, naked. She voraciously kissed him, and persistently and eagerly sought sex with him by getting on top and orgasmically expanding her retractable wings - and he possibly impregnated her. During the sex act in which she moaned and cooed, she regenerated her phallic-like stinger - just as Elsa arrived and caught them in the act.
The film was a hybrid of its own, mixing a semi-serious examination of the ethical and moral dimensions of genetic experimentation with a bloody B-grade horror film (in its final 15 minutes). After sex, the female creature appeared to die and was then buried, but regenerated into a male and became extremely violent. The male DREN swooped down and killed both their boss Bill Barlow (David Hewlett) and Clive's brother Gavin (Brandon McGibbon), raped Elsa (the creature demanded: "Inside you"), and when Clive attempted to rescue her by stabbing the creature in the back with a stake, he was stung to death in the heart with DREN's stinger. Elsa was finally able to crush the creature's head with a rock and kill it.
In the final scene, Elsa was in the office of CEO Joan Chorot (Simona Maicanescu) of giant corporate funder Newstead Pharmaceuticals, Inc., learning that she would be paid well to lead the profitable company to "the next stage" if she kept silent forever about DREN. She was pregnant, repeating the line: "What's the worst that could happen?" when asked if she wanted to walk away -- the question remained: was her future offspring fathered by the male DREN or Clive?
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