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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A genetic experiment gone wrong, Dren (Abigail Chu) soon grows up to be a problem for her scientist parents. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play a superstar geneticist couple who at one point debate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, writer-director Vincenzo Natali's Splice has a mad science quality. He has crossbred a self-serious psychodrama and a queasy creature-feature, ...

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 ...

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 ...