Splice: Blu Ray Review
Splice
Rating: R16
Released by Madman
Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley team up in this flick about two
scientists who splice human and animal DNA together.
But despite a lack of morals and ethics at the start as they're
caught up in the heady excitement of the experiment,the pair are
quickly divided when the resulting creature is born.
Polley's Elsa wants to keep the female creature but Brody's Clive,
despite wanting to be a dad, wants shot of it.
There's little really of the legal and ethical debate but it
becomes quite a curious mix of horror and unsettling incest toward
the end-but thanks to a sensitive performance from Delphine Chaneac
as the creature (who's a mix of Gizmo and the bald chick from Star
Trek 1) it's really quite an impressive piece of film and not a bad
entrant into the mad scientist/ abhorrent experiment genre.
Sure there's the icky moments and the slightly disturbing moments,
but this is sensibly put together scifi horror which is watchable -
even if occasionally that is from behind the sofa.
Extras: Interview with director; featurette,
behind the scenes and trailer - nothing outstanding but nothing too
disappointing either.
Rating: 7/10
