Just call them the “Splice” girls. The poster child is Dren. She’s got no hair, a nasty stinger in her tail, eight fingers and legs with extra joints. Then there’s Elsa, the woman who created Dren. A ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The hardest fiction to swallow in Vincenzo Natali’s provocative sci-fi thriller “Splice” may well be the youth of the research couple at the center of the ...

Dark, sleek, funny and creepily infectious, the genetic-engineering horror-comedy “Splice” is a dynamic comeback vehicle for Canadian genre director Vincenzo Natali, who made a splash a few years ago ...

It's a bird! It's a platelet! It's a hot bald chick! The laboratory concoction at the center of "Splice" grows from a mixture of human and animal DNA. Several animals. She -- It? They? -- is smart, ...

There’s already controversy swirling around Splice, the tale of a dangerous genetic experiment who looks like a beautiful woman. Directed by the indie auteur behind Cube, Vincenzo Natali, the movie is ...

The scientists at the center of Splice should have watched a couple of horror movies - that way, they'd know to never go against the moral code and inject human DNA into one of their genetic creations ...

Splice” (opening June 4 in select theaters) is a thinking person's horror film. This new movie from producer Guillermo Del Toro is more for fans of the old Universal horror films than of the recent ...

Maybe once or twice a year a film comes along that is under-hyped but much better than you would expect. Splice is one of 2010' s most welcome surprises. It is being marketed as a bog-standard, scary ...

The long shadow of the recession may still be darkening the land, but one thing that’s seeing a resurgence at the multiplex this summer is the mad-scientist industry. First up was Teutonically evil Dr ...

It’s been 192 years since Mary Shelley published her gothic masterpiece “Frankenstein,” and the versatility of Shelley’s “modern Prometheus” mythology continues unabated. “Splice” presents the latest ...

***The following review contains heavy spoilers for Splice, revealing key plot points. When I saw the film there was very little marketing out and although I don’t normally worry too much about ...