


There are as many heartfelt, emotional scenes as acute horror moments. This film asks what may happen if a mad scientist loves the creation the creature shyly adores the labcoats who have bred her, but is still capable of jealous anger.
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Natali plays expertly on our sympathies as the plot takes a darker tone - this is a horror movie in which we are as afraid of what will happen to the monster as of what she will do to other people.įrankenstein’s crime was not loving his monster. Sprouting wings or gills, with a deadly barb at the end of her prehensile tail, Dren feels as real as Karloff’s Monster. They name the creature 'Dren,' and as she matures to resemble a beautiful, young woman, her animalistic tendencies rapidly evolve into something dangerous. The centrepiece of any Frankenstein film is the monster, and Dren is extraordinary, portrayed by Delphine Chanéac with CGI augmentations. Signalled by a mid-film location shift from antiseptic corporate lab to run-down Gothic farm, sci-fi turns to horror as the personal failings of the creators and the created lead (inevitably) to violent clashes.įor the most part, this is a complex character drama: Elsa (Sarah Polley), who has seemingly put her own horrible childhood behind her, resists having a baby with Clive (Adrien Brody), but is eager for her experiment to become a daughter, though she is as flustered by Dren’s extreme metamorphoses and mood-swings as any mother of a tearaway teen. Superstar genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Like Mary Shelley, Natali is concerned with scientific ethics - intensified in the 21st century by corporate sponsorship and demand for profitable products from expensive research - but equally troubled by the unique relationship Frankenstein and the monster may have. 199.99, Choose Currency, About This Polystone Statue, Sideshow Collectibles is proud to present Dren, the eerie part human hybrid introduced in the sci-fi thriller, Splice. watch Splice on 123movies: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use. The characters in Splice are named after actors in James Whale’s Bride Of Frankenstein an indication of the approach writer/director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher) took to the subject of artificial life.
