Friday, June 4, 2010
News Hollywood Product: Splice
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:38 PM
GENRE: Sci-fi/horror with brains — and guts
THE PITCH: Brilliant biochemists Elsa and Clive (Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody) tamper in God’s domain by creating a new life form that combines human and animal DNA, grows rapidly to adulthood, and proves more dangerously intelligent than they imagine.
MONEY SHOTS: The “It’s alive!” scare scene when Clive and Elsa discover that their experiment succeeded a little too well. The creepy, adorable way the new life-form eats from a bowl. Clive teaches adult-sized “Dren” (Delphine Chanéac) how to dance. The scientists’ investor demonstration goes horribly, hilariously wrong in the worst public debut since King Kong hit Broadway.
ICK SHOTS: There’s an old joke that goes, “What do you call the useless bit of flesh at the end of a penis? A man.” Early in the film, Elsa and Clive create a pair of gelatinous life forms that bring that line to mind, only without the “man,” if you get my drift. Newborn Dren at first looks kind of like a frog-sized sperm. (Notice a pattern here?)
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(Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)
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