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 ...

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 ...

When Vincenzo Natali introduced Splice-- his latest film after Nothing, Cyper, and his cult-smash Cube-- tonight at its world premiere, he simply said that this "film has no moral boundaries." Instead ...

Above all, Elsa does not want to give up and quickly dispels Clive's initial concerns. In secret, the couple embark on the ultimate experiment: creating a human-animal hybrid. The experiment succeeds; ...

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 ...

Scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) take their DNA experiments into a dangerous realm in the thriller Splice. ((E1 Films)) Hatched in the spooky recesses of director Vincenzo ...

Steeped in geek-dom and centered with science fiction, Splice is a horror film where the horror comes last. The moral dilemma of what Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are doing ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

In a way, myth became reality when the ancient Greek concept of a chimera — a monstrous mash-up of different animals — became standard terminology in biology, describing genetic hybrids. The ...

Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play Clive and Elsa, brilliant biochemists who have led the way in creating a new organism culled from the DNA of several existing species. This new animal produces ...