Howard Berger’s excellent makeup effects and the game A-list cast members give Splice a slickness that makes you forget it was shot on a relatively modest budget (roughly $30 million). No Freudian textbooks are necessary, however the movie invites many readings – from timely genetics debate to a study of the world’s most dysfunctional family – all of them accessible, smart and fun to ponder afterward. Splice is teeming with gender-bending creatures, disturbing sex and enough suggestive, oozing body imagery to give H.R. The driven, tightly wound Elsa and Clive prove ill-equipped as parents, and as they hole up in an abandoned farmhouse to keep their rebellious teen offspring under wraps, Splice heads into icky terrain that should shock audiences and inspire someone’s film-school master’s thesis. Clive’s ethical concerns about the Barbie-toting creature don’t stand a chance once beaming, proud mother Elsa wonders aloud if anyone could really look at Dren’s face "and see anything less than a miracle."Ĭlive listens to the half-human, half-animal Dren (Delphine Chaneac) in Splice. When the kindergarten-aged Dren starts spelling out human words with Scrabble tiles, Elsa’s previously absent maternal genes kick in, and the film mutates once more, this time into something slyly funny. Once Dren is unearthed, Splice begins to resemble David Cronenberg’s triumphant remake of The Fly (1986), or his earlier Freudian family headtrip, The Brood (1979). But Natali and co-writers Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor are not content to stay in pop-corny territory for long. With its moody London Philharmonic score and sci-fi set-up, Splice has all the makings of an old-fashioned B-movie, the kind where characters suffer horrific consequences after messing with nature. Within a matter of months, the lumpen-headed mass has evolved into a little girl named Dren (Abigail Chu), and then a hell-raising adolescent ( Delphine Chanéac) who possesses the beauty of Sinead O’Connor and a lethally spiky tail. Sporting chicken legs, a rabbit face and a head as phallic as anything in the Alien movies, the bouncing little tyke proves capable of rapid-fire growth spurts. Before Elsa can say " It’s alive!" a new creature plops out on the lab floor, swathed in gelatinous goo. If their Bride of Frankenstein names didn’t tip you off, they are soon conducting their own top-secret experiment, this time fusing animal and human DNA. ![]() But the corporate backers at Newstead Pharma take one look at Elsa and Clive’s grotesque test results and relegate the hotshots to five more years of dry "phase two" legwork.Ī short history of movies with scientists who play GodĮlsa and Clive aren’t content to sift through pig proteins when they could be curing cancer. The product of spliced livestock genes, Fred and his predecessor, Ginger, should be enough to guarantee more funding for the married scientists to continue their innovative medical research. Splice begins in a dark, dank lab, where pioneering genetic engineers Elsa ( Sarah Polley) and Clive ( Adrien Brody) are witnessing the birth of their latest creation, a slimy, shuddering worm named Fred. Splice is a clever, homegrown monster mash-up that keeps morphing before your eyes. ![]() Part sci-fi, part gross-out horror with a dash of family drama thrown in for good measure, the movie is a complete hoot in all of its slithery forms. ![]() Hatched in the spooky recesses of director Vincenzo Natali’s mind, Splice offers Canadian audiences something to crow about: a clever, homegrown monster mash-up that keeps morphing before your eyes. This pack is influenced by the modern sounds of Dubstep, Riddim, Trap, DnB and Bass Music, and following the vibes of the man himself (Tevlo), and other Bass Music artists like Virtual Riot, Zomboy, Au5, Prismatic and Fractal to name a few.Scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) take their DNA experiments into a dangerous realm in the thriller Splice. Alongside all these brilliant presets and one shots are luxurious loops, ranging from Drums to fills, and even melodic elements to full blown war drums! Keep fueling your latest hit song with 808, Drum, Bass, and HUGE FX one shots. You can dive right in with the Serum Presets, which help you create your own custom sound from the included Bass, Lead, Pluck and Pad presets. Tevlo is bringing the heat again with the second installment to Alien Weaponry Alien Weaponry 2! This is a mind melting pack of top quality Samples, Loops and Serum Presets, that will help you take your productions out of this world! Alien Weaponry gives you the deadly ingredients for full speaker annihilation! This pack is perfectly suited for multiple bass heavy genres, including (but not limited to) Dubstep, Riddim, Trap, Drum and Bass!
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