Once Dren is unearthed, Splice begins to resemble David Cronenberg’s triumphant remake of The Fly (1986), or his earlier Freudian family headtrip, The Brood (1979). But Natali and co-writers Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor are not content to stay in pop-corny territory for long. With its moody London Philharmonic score and sci-fi set-up, Splice has all the makings of an old-fashioned B-movie, the kind where characters suffer horrific consequences after messing with nature. Within a matter of months, the lumpen-headed mass has evolved into a little girl named Dren (Abigail Chu), and then a hell-raising adolescent ( Delphine Chanéac) who possesses the beauty of Sinead O’Connor and a lethally spiky tail. Sporting chicken legs, a rabbit face and a head as phallic as anything in the Alien movies, the bouncing little tyke proves capable of rapid-fire growth spurts. Before Elsa can say " It’s alive!" a new creature plops out on the lab floor, swathed in gelatinous goo. If their Bride of Frankenstein names didn’t tip you off, they are soon conducting their own top-secret experiment, this time fusing animal and human DNA. But the corporate backers at Newstead Pharma take one look at Elsa and Clive’s grotesque test results and relegate the hotshots to five more years of dry "phase two" legwork.Ī short history of movies with scientists who play GodĮlsa and Clive aren’t content to sift through pig proteins when they could be curing cancer. The product of spliced livestock genes, Fred and his predecessor, Ginger, should be enough to guarantee more funding for the married scientists to continue their innovative medical research. Splice begins in a dark, dank lab, where pioneering genetic engineers Elsa ( Sarah Polley) and Clive ( Adrien Brody) are witnessing the birth of their latest creation, a slimy, shuddering worm named Fred. Splice is a clever, homegrown monster mash-up that keeps morphing before your eyes.
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Part sci-fi, part gross-out horror with a dash of family drama thrown in for good measure, the movie is a complete hoot in all of its slithery forms. Hatched in the spooky recesses of director Vincenzo Natali’s mind, Splice offers Canadian audiences something to crow about: a clever, homegrown monster mash-up that keeps morphing before your eyes.
Scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) take their DNA experiments into a dangerous realm in the thriller Splice.
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