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 ...

When two young scientists decide to splice together human and animal DNA to create a new organism, you just know things aren't going to turn out all right. Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrien Brody) ...

In 1999, the first human chromosome was sequenced in full thanks to the Human Genome Project. It was a climactic accomplishment for genetic engineering, but it could’ve easily been seen as a Pandora’s ...

Director Vincenzo Natali was adamant in keeping the sex scene between Adrien Brody and the main creature part of Splice’s final cut. Reflecting on the movie 15 years later, the filmmaker, 55, told ...

The fact that Clive and Elsa successfully bring Dren into being on their own — and then make whoopee in front of it to boot — is just one (or maybe that actually counts as two) among the silly ...

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

It’s evident that all the teenagers in a majority of slasher films have never seen a horror movie in their lives. Why else would they make such inexplicable decisions like going down dark hallways and ...