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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

One June 4th... Meet Dren. Before we get into this, director Vincenzo Natali explained at a Q&A once that Dren (the name of this "creature") is simply just "Nerd" backwards, nothing else special about ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...