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Splice
Fig. 1 Splice poster.
The film Splice directed by Vincenzo Natali is a French Canadian sci-fi horror about two genetic
engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) who hope to achieve fame by successfully
splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use. They
then embark and are intrigued into what may happen if they also spliced human DNA within their
experiment. The experiment begins to grow at an alarming rate much faster than the average
human and begins slowly to grow up in the world much like a human being and acting like a human
being but just, just looking like a human. Clive and Elsa welcome this Splice into their world with
open arms, willing to look after her and take on the responsibilities of their actions, with that they
also name her Dren as the next step in human evolution.
An experiment to create an animal/human hybrid that could revolutionize modern day medicine – if
it doesn’t destroy humanity first. (Jason Buchanan, Rovi)
Fig. 2 Dren as a baby.
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Dren the specimen/experiment goes through many rapid stages of growing, through to learning and
even freaking the humans out at some points due to how intelligent she actually is. Clive and Elsa
were original experimenting on already two made spliced experiments with great success the two
spliced experiments got on fine and even fell in love. Clive and Elsa then go onto showing the world
these two experiments to show what success they have made with their experiments and how much
it may change future medicine’s, They then introduce the two experiments together again but soon
find out that something has gone terribly wrong and both specimens have turned into male’s.
Because before one was male and the other female, but in this instance the female turns into a male
just like that which is when everything goes wrong and they start to brutally attack each other.
Which by this point leave’s the audience with’ well if that happened to that experiment it might
even happen to Dren their new spliced human hybrid experiment.
Dren’s ability to grow at a faster rate than human’s, she begins to develop what seems to being
human thoughts and feelings for other showing the audience the definite human within her, At one
point through the film Clive knows that keeping this experiment is a really bad idea when his brother
finds out about the experiment. Dren becomes to get ill at some stage, were she seems to be
overheating and not being able to breath properly, both Clive and Elsa instantly think of placing her
into a water tank to cool her down because the amount of heat she it producing due to being ill.
They also discover she has what seems to be a slight swollenness within her that feels like it may be
a tumour. Clive and Elsa place her into the tank to cool her down and then this is when Clive gets the
idea of getting rid of the experiment once and for all and trying to drown her, Which they then
discover that she didn’t actually have a tumour what Dren had was actually gill’s much like a fish and
she breathed underwater which was why she was overheating was because she needed to get to
some water. As Dren gets older she becomes to get quite loud which, much like a screaming child
which at this point Clive and Elsa make a decision to move her to a barn with her own room andsomewhere to stay but refuse her from allowing her to see the outside world due to Clive and Elsa
not actually getting permission to do this experiment in the first place.
Elsa and Clive call this entity Dren, the reverse of “Nerd” (Peter Bradshaw)
As the film comes on Dren becomes more different and intelligent, from breathing underwater,
becoming intelligent within the human life, gaining wings and even changing gender as we find out
later on at the end of the film. As the film goes on more inevitable things happen for example Dren
having sex with Clive due to him being so much in work and study he needs sex and realises that
Dren actually has Elsa’s DNA, therefore Clive sees Elsa’s DNA within Dren and actually get physical
attracted to her because of the way she acts, exactly the same as Elsa. Evenutally Dren changes even
more and becomes male and ends up even killing Clive and rapeing Elsa until all comes to the end
when Elsa kills Dren with a large rock.
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Fig. 3 Dren as an Adult.
“A Frankenstein with a beating, gene-spliced heart and top of the range performances” (Newman)
Fig. 4 Dren as an Adult when she turns male.
Illustration
Fig. 1 (2009) Splice Poster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/ (accessed on 17/10/2011)
Fig. 2 (2009) Dren as a baby http://www.fusedfilm.com/2010/01/sundance-2010-twitter-report-
vincenzo-natalis-splice-gets-all-the-buzz-sundance-queen-kristen-stewart-in-welcome-to-the-rileys-
reitmanss-in-the-air-has-great-company-ryan-reynoldss-buried/ (accessed on 17/10/2011)
Fig. 3 (2009) Dren as an Adult Female http://uk.gamespot.com/unions/18091/forums/27389253
(accessed on 17/10/2011)
Fig. 4 (2009) Dren as an Adult when she turns male
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Bibliography
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(Jason Buchanan, Rovi) (2010) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1208173-splice/ (accessed on
17/10/2011)
(Peter Bradshaw) (2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/22/splice-review (accessed on
17/10/2011)
(Newman) (2010) http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=135263 (accessed on
17/10/2011)