Splice (2009): Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA. (6.1)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac
The Wikipedia article about this movie quotes the director as saying "... to create something shocking but also very subtle and completely believable." Seriously? You splice together DNA from a blob and a human and you end up with a tail, a sting, wings, gills, etc. etc. is believable? The central theme of the movie was good, and they could have created a humanoid and debated a lot of ethical questions. But, no, they went for the horror aspect and lost thinking part. That's why my score is low. My rating: 5.5
