It does return to more normal sci-fi horror after this but it is brief compared to the rest of the movie. I won't go into detail but it means the horror of "Splice" is the horror of bad parenting. And we watch as Elsa is a cruel mother in the way her mother was cruel to her whilst Clive forms a too close relationship with Dren. It is the first sign that "Splice" is not going to be what you expect but what it grows into is surprisingly effective as the focus settles on Elsa and Clive as parents to a rapidly aging Dren.
And to start with we have cute and comical parenting as Elsa and Clive try to look after baby Dren, discovering difficulty in feeding and so on.
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We do get some horror as their experiment grows in an artificial womb and is born but none of it is that amazing.īut here is the thing, after their creation which they end up naming Dren is created the focus of "Splice" changes, there is still some sci-fi horror but it now becomes a movie about parenting. In fact whilst we have some decent special effects as we meet their creations Fred & Ginger it becomes a bit of a cliche as they are told their research is being stopped and so they decide to carry on in secret, this time experimenting with human DNA.
"Splice" starts in a traditional sci-fi horror fashion, Elsa and Clive may not be the crazy scientists but they certainly are on the edge of geeks as we see them deliver a creation, born from an artificial womb. But what they achieve and how they feel about their creation neither could have expected. There experiments are a success but when their superiors declare there will be no more DNA engineering they take matters into their own hands as they secretly experiment with human DNA just to see if they can create a half human, half animal creature. Scientists Clive ( Adrien Brody - The Darjeeling Limited) and Elsa ( Sarah Polley - Dawn of the Dead) work for NERD where they are experimenting with the DNA of animals to create a harvestable protein. And to be honest when you get passed the expectations and realise this is a horror movie about bad parenting it gets surprisingly good but that does mean it is disappointing if what you wanted was sci-fi horror. The actual horror of "Splice" is about parenting, yes you did read that right because what we watch is how one of the scientists turns into a cruel mother like her own whilst the other one struggles with getting too close to their creation. And in fairness the basis of "Splice" is about two scientists creating a mixture of human and animal when they are told not to but that is in truth not what the movie is about and not the horror. I don't remember a lot about the advertising for "Splice" when it hit the cinemas but I do seem to remember it focused on the horror of two scientists messing out with human DNA.
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