Movies With Interspecies Romances To Creep You Out (Or Entice You, Weirdo)

In real life, a human should absolutely only date a human. But on the silver screen, interspecies movie romances have permeated pop culture for many years, allowing audiences to think deeply about love in a way they never could with more traditional stories.

Whether it’s a human with an alien, a human with an underwater fish monster, or a human with (gulp) a sheep, this overview of interspecies movie romances is sure to liven up the way you look at love.

The Shape of Water

Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Actress, Guillermo del Toro’s fantastic vision of interspecies romance deserves all its acclaim and thensome. It paints a tender, aching portrait of loneliness and reunion, of two souls who always belonged together.

Del Toro directs it like he’ll never get a chance to direct a movie again, and if he doesn’t (he will), it’s a helluva swan song. Maybe his next film can be about falling in love with a swan?

Amanda And The Alien

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Was I the only person who watched this film on UPN as a kid? The only person who, intrigued by the suggestive ads leading up the broadcast, sat through a cheap, bizarre film about an alien man and his female lover?

The only person who furrowed his brow at chopped and censored sex scenes that included, of all things, cinnamon play? My guess is “probably.” But it’s forever lodged in my brain, where useful facts could’ve lived. CPR, for example.

Amanda And The Alien lives where knowing CPR could have lived.

Clerks II

Randall wants to get his best friend Dante something special for his going away party. He settles on booking a private “donkey show” — what a friend, huh?

In a twist, “Kinky Kelly And The Sexy Stud” refers to, respectively, the donkey and the human man who publicly “expresses his love.” With modern eyes, this entire sequence, particularly the presupposition that a woman having sex with a donkey is “more fun,” reads super problematic.

Ted 2

How do a sentient teddy bear and a flesh-and-blood woman sustain a relationship? And what if they want the traditional trappings of American domestic life — kids, pets, white picket fences?

Inexplicably (and rather clumsily), Ted 2, the Seth MacFarlane sequel about a vulgar bear and his silly friend, tries to tackle these issues between Ted and his human wife Tami-Lynn, turning into a pseudo-commentary on civil rights.