The mother/daughter bond between Elsa and Dren (Delphine Chaneac) progresses nicely until she becomes too much to handle and when the threat of being discovered becomes too great, they move her to an old farm house once owned by Elsa's abusive and now dead mother. Aside from the wide set eyes, she basically looks human from the waist up whereas the bottom half of her looks like something straight out of David Twohy's "The Arrival".Įlsa does her best at being a "protective mother" to the creature she's named Dren (Nerd spelled backwards) but Clive is not as enthusiastic about keeping this dirty little secret. What they end up with is a creature that rapidly transforms from a nasty little slug type thing into a beautiful winged chimera. They decide to ignore all moral, ethical and legal ramifications and secretly add human DNA to the sequence. When their project goes horribly wrong, they are given an ultimatum, get it done or get out. Vincenzo Natali's "Splice" falls somewhere within the same category of mad science and moral/ethical conundrums however, that's about as far as the comparison can go (IMO).Ĭlive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are two rebellious scientists/lovers who are put in charge of developing a protein by splicing together genes from several different species. Roman Polanski evolved the idea in "Rosemary's Baby" and Larry Cohen took contemporary paranoias and brought them to life in "It's Alive". James Whale did it in his 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Hollywood history is full of films that depict man's quest to create life by transgressing human reproduction.
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