Adrien Brody

Sarah Polley

Delphine Chanéac

David Hewlett

Abigail Chu

Stephanie Baird

Brandon McGibbon

Amanda Brugel

Simona Măicănescu

Steven Hoban

Guillermo del Toro

Steve Copley

Lydia Pensa

Peter Armstrong

Julia Valente

Jane Conway

Michel Monier

Marc Kuitenbrouwer

Chris Wallace

Brandon Prodger

Vincenzo Natali

Todd Cherniawsky

Marie Nardella

Joshu de Cartier

Jason Knight

Antoinette Terry Bryant

John Buchan

Constance Demontoy

Alex Kavanagh

Doug Taylor

Sam Hudecki

Daniel White

William Cheng

Garrett Kerr

Arnauld Boulard

Ian Hunter

Paul Rapovski

Lisa Burling

John Sievert

Fabrice Lagayette

Rossana DeCampo

Jason Lunn

Chris Howard

Brad Sherman

Alain Lalanne

Angelo Colavecchia

Joseph Boccia

Jacques Bled

Steve Wilkie

David McCallum

François-Xavier Aubague

Michael Griffith

Sue Len Quon

David Sanger

Christopher M. Meagher

Shie Rozow

Roderick Deogrades

Plato Fountidakis

Dana Howes

Marty Dejczak

Leslie Kavanagh

David R. Beecroft

Laurent Kossayan

Steve Pederson

Jean-François Bourrel

Aidan Stanford

Mark Shnuriwsky

David Rose

Stefan Fraticelli

Bob Munroe

Dale Gagne

Pierre Buffin

Dino Laurenza

Christina Butterfield

Janice Ierulli

Tetsuo Nagata

Jill Purdy

Cyrille Aufort

Jean-Alexandre Villemer

James R. Murray

Michele Conroy

Lou Thomas

Cynthia Amsden

Franck Chorot

Mario Moreira

Jeff DaSilva

Desiree Lidon

David Herrington

Hubert Boorder

John Colavecchia

Christopher Cordell

Mark Manchester

Amanda Wojtaszek

Sarah Campbell

Mark Cyre

Andrew Shea

John Papsidera

Warner Strauss

Horror

Science Fiction

Splice

Copperheart Entertainment

Gaumont

Senator Film

Canada

France

Germany

English

experiment

genetics

gene manipulation

genetic engineering

genetically modified organism

Andres Gomez

The FX is OK and the uneasiness and thrill is always there but the script is stereotypical, weak and full of holes.

Brundledren!

Splice is a tricky picture to evaluate, for its ideas are superb. One could argue that it brings a new petri dish full of meddling scientists facing the consequences of their actions, while conversely it justifiably feels like a Cronenberg knock-off.

Psychological discord is in abundance, with its slants on skew-whiff parenting giving the pic a dark fascination, and as unpleasant as the male fantasy angle is, it does hold a morbid interest factor.

Yet come the final third the makers let things run away from them, the bonkers dangers of tampering with science giving way to daft schlock, even managing to be distasteful in the process - while the finale is a weak attempt at a "TBC" cliff hanger.

Lead cast members are turning in good perfs. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as the meddling science couple hold court well, and Delphine Chaneac as the Chimera splicer of the piece really nails all the various emotional strands required for a tricky role.

Director Vincenzo Natali  has shown with Cube and Cypher he has something to offer the horror/sci-fi splinters of film, but this is a mixed bag. A film of great ideas let down by overheating the plot for shock values, while the levity inserted into the play is misguided and damaging for dramatic worth. 6/10

CinemaSerf

"Clive" (Adrien Brody) and "Elsa" (Sarah Polley) are a couple of genetic engineers charged by David Hewlett's "Barlow" with discovering an important gene that could lead to huge advances in medical science. Using a mix of human and animal DNA that have varying degrees of success before the evolution of a creature "Dren" (Delphine Chanéac) that develops more human attributes - as well as a tail with a stinger and the ability to grow wings. As we progress through this frankly rather disturbing story, we discover that "Elsa" quite literally has skin in the game as they must both seek to protect their creation from not just their employers but from her increasingly violent and lustful tendencies. I was quite interested in the underlying premise but the execution here is really poor. I never did really get why Brody was ever successful in the first place and here there is no chemistry between him and Polley; the storyline which could have been challenging and thought-provoking instead borders on the absurdly far-fetched and the ending couldn't really come quick enough as we really do struggle to reach any sort of a satisfactory conclusion - either from a personal or a scientific perspective. It does highlight the dangers of unfettered scientific experimentation but sadly in no more an entertaining fashion that we have seen many times before - more enjoyably - from Hammer Studios!

Splice( 2010)

She's not human...not entirely.

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Written by Andres Gomez on Wed Nov 26 2014

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