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Splice

2009

Vincenzo Natali

Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Brandon McGibbon, David Hewlett ...

5.0

10,487

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"Benefiting significantly from the casting of Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, director Vincenzo Natali's outlandish sci-fier sustains a grotesque and funny fascination throughout its slightly protracted runtime"
		Tom Long Detroit News	"Daring, disturbing and deliciously twisted"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Before the film devolves into cliché, director and co-writer Vincenzo Natali creates a potent and provocative thriller about gender politics and human impulses that can't be reduced to a science (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"With 'Splice' [Natali] has done the next best thing with an intelligent movie that, in between its small boos and an occasional hair-raising jolt, explores chewy issues"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Though a stylish thriller with an initially palpable sense of menace, the story takes such ridiculous turns that it ends up undercutting its initial promise"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's well done, and intriguing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An entertaining and cheerfully subversive satire on corporate ambition (...) It may well become a cult favourite (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] should satisfy the Friday-night crowd without alienating too many viewers."

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