However, the combination of CGI and practical effects used to bring her to life works, thanks to the top-notch work of Greg Nicotero and Howard Baker.

Considering that she’s the third presence on the screen, if she doesn’t look good, the movie doesn’t have a shot. Of crucial importance to the movie is Dren. There’s also enough slime and blood at key moments to make the movie sufficiently horrifying. Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid. He also keeps the movie focused and moving at a pace that feels quicker than its 104 minute runtime, yet slow enough so that the heightened pace of the movie’s finale leaves the viewer adequately breathless. He does quite a good job with Dren’s various temporary homes, from the lab and beyond. If you can say one thing for Natali’s directing talents, he knows how to shoot a laboratory to maximum effect. A second clip of Splice, the upcoming science-fiction movie directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, has surfaced online: This must be a scene happening earlier than the first Splice clip. The ending is incredibly cliché, and some of the twists near the end were a bit obvious and expected, but that’s the case when you’re dealing with what is essentially a prettied-up, more intelligent B-movie with a good cast. Even when the movie becomes a bit predictable towards the end, it never ceases to be entertaining, which is good. The script of the film, from director Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, and Doug Taylor, finds the right balance between the dramatic, the pseudo-scientific, the horror, and the comedy you need to make a movie like this work without falling into the trap of being too moralistic, stupid, or worse, boring. a sex-monster romp in the Species vein, and that does the movie a disservice. Splice /what-did-you-think-splice/ Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley: SPLICE Movie Trailer 2 /adrien-brody-sarah-polley-splice-movie-trai. Since they get all the screen time, they have to be able to hold the audience’s attention, and they do that very well. Editors Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on June 2, 2010.

It’s a good balance that plays to the strengths of the two actors. Sarah Polley, who got her big break in Dawn Of The Dead, returns to the monster genre as the boundaries-pushing ‘science is its own reward’-type Elsa, while Oscar-winner Adrien Brody can always be counted on to give a good performance, and is very good here as the more reasonable member of the duo of postmodern Doctors Frankenstein.īrody in particular gets some good dialog, as he’s the quirky one of the duo and gets all the jokes, while Polley gets to be the more emotive, serious one. Splice is buoyed by having an excellent cast.

The end result of their experiments, which dance with the forbidden by using a little segment of human DNA, is Dren.

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