Splice (2010)

I like modern Frankenstein movies when well meaning scientists attempt to play with things they were never meant to interfere with in the first place. These kinds of stories never end well.

Sara Polley (as Elsa) and Adrienne Brody (Clive) are two corporate scientists who are successful with their work in creating new life forms which in turn are used to produce medicine for livestock.


They of course want to apply their modern techniques to human subjects but to the corporation they work for, that is just more expense - especially when they already have something they can profit from - the livestock medicine. The two scientists find that their work at gene splicing will be shut down right when they are on the verge of human trials.

Elsa is the stronger personality of the two and is easily able to convince Clive to attempt to advance their human gene splice experiment. After several initial failures, they succeed in creating an animal/humane hybrid. Elsa is convinced that they take it to embryo and at each successive stage she is able to easily convince Clive to put aside his ethical fears and let the fetus develop.


With the creature growing faster than they anticipated the two are forced to bring it to an emergency birth. Nothing about this 'mistake' is normal and it should have been killed right away. Again Clive is overrulled.

Of course they don't do what is safe and even become attached to their 'baby'. It's like they have never ever seen a movie of this type before. Every time he wants to kill the creature they name Dren, she does something stupid that just prolongs this 'thing's' life.

I repeat, this will not end well. The movie becomes a story of us waiting for the worse to happen. The two scientists have created something that is developing human feelings that it doesn't understand.



I have to admit that there are times when the little hairless rat/chicken like creature is kinda cute. I feel sorry for it as it grows into a cute demon child.


As you can suspect, regardless of the good intentions of these scientists, many people are going to die as they stumble upon a creature that they do not understand. Elsa has mother issues so of course she sees too late how dangerous her 'baby' is.

Like I said. This will not have a happy ending for the pet cat or anyone else involved.