Splice

Splice

Running Time: 104 minutes

Summary: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Review: I am an avid reader of imdb.com and check it pretty much every day. I caught a glimpse of some of the screenshots from Splice there a couple months ago and was anxiously awaiting it's release, even to a point where I considered going to the theatre to check it out (a rarity for me). I love Sarah Polley and although Adrian Brody's nostrils creep me out, he is a very talented man, throw in a dash of sci-fi and I was hooked.

Although Splice had many components that made it very appealing to me, it failed to do anything to me other than make me feel dirty and wrong.

In light of so many sequels and reimagining of stories that have been previously told, I will concede that it was a novel idea, a couple of scientists try to create a new organism for financial gain, public notoriety and simply to "prove that they could do it". The characters are well thought out and Sarah Polley and Adrian Brody do not disappoint, but it's not enough.

The movie goes to a dark, dirty and wrong place in a way that leave you covering your eyes because you don't want to admit that it's happening. The killer part is that it just keeps happening!*!@!!@#!!!! Unless you want to have a complex about sex, skip this one.

Rating: 3.5/10 nest-ability