Blood is only the beginning in Marion Le Corroller ’s Species , which follows firmly in the trail pioneered by Julia DuCorneau but brings its own thoughts to the woman-in-a-man’s-world body-horror genre. Built around a fantastic scream-queen performance from Mara Taquin, who literally comes out of her shell in ways that will not be revealed here, Le Corroller’s film taps into the sinister sci-fi paranoia that feeds David Cronenberg ’s early movies and throws in a hefty dose of social satire that recalls Nicolas Ray’s Bigger Than Life . It begins with a dark but broadly comedic prologue set in a fast-food joint called Bloody Burger. Under pressure to keep things moving, the server has a fixed rictus grin for every customer, but the smile fades when he gets into a spat with an annoying TikTok influencer, who threatens to get him fired if he won’t give him his favorite Royal King burger.…