The fact that Clive and Elsa successfully bring Dren into being on their own — and then make whoopee in front of it to boot — is just one (or maybe that actually counts as two) among the silly ...

Steeped in geek-dom and centered with science fiction, Splice is a horror film where the horror comes last. The moral dilemma of what Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are doing ...

There’s already controversy swirling around Splice, the tale of a dangerous genetic experiment who looks like a beautiful woman. Directed by the indie auteur behind Cube, Vincenzo Natali, the movie is ...

It's a bird! It's a platelet! It's a hot bald chick! The laboratory concoction at the center of "Splice" grows from a mixture of human and animal DNA. Several animals. She -- It? They? -- is smart, ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rather than just deploying its twisted ending for funsies, Vincenzo Natali’s creation parable ...

The scientists at the center of Splice should have watched a couple of horror movies - that way, they'd know to never go against the moral code and inject human DNA into one of their genetic creations ...

It’s been 192 years since Mary Shelley published her gothic masterpiece “Frankenstein,” and the versatility of Shelley’s “modern Prometheus” mythology continues unabated. “Splice” presents the latest ...

There is a special kind of exhilaration that comes from watching smart scientists do really dumb things. In the slyly cheesy Splice, a pair of married scientists blithely tromp through nature’s domain ...

One June 4th... Meet Dren. Before we get into this, director Vincenzo Natali explained at a Q&A once that Dren (the name of this "creature") is simply just "Nerd" backwards, nothing else special about ...