Splice - the gene experiment
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Splice - the gene experiment |
| Original title | Splice |
| Country of production | Canada , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vincenzo Natali |
| script | Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant |
| production | Steve Hoban |
| music | Cyrille Aufort |
| camera | Tetsuo Nagata |
| cut | Michele Conroy |
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Splice is a Canadian-French film directed by Vincenzo Natali with Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley in the leading roles.
action
The geneticists Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast, both professionally and privately a controversial couple, work on the creation of new living beings by splicing animal genes. You successfully create two new creatures that resemble oversized worms. Her employer, a pharmaceutical company, hopes the results of her work will be of great benefit to medical research. At the same time, the two secretly, driven mainly by Elsa's ambition , create a hybrid of human and animal DNA in the Group's laboratories in order to be able to cure a multitude of diseases with the new DNA.
While Clive wants to kill the creature first, his partner wants to let the creature live. Elsa develops strong maternal instincts for the creature she secretly used her own DNA to create, and she names it Dren . The name results from the reverse compounded term "nerd", which is printed on Elsa's shirt and is clearly recognized by the being. When a colleague, Clive's brother, learns of the experiment, the two hide the creature on an abandoned old farm owned by Elsa. The creature develops very quickly and after a short time looks very similar to an adult human woman, but also has poison glands, a tail with a spike at the tip, wings and amphibious lungs.
In the meantime, an incident occurs during the first public demonstration of the two “official” hybrids. They tear each other apart with their spines. The female had previously changed its sex spontaneously; it is believed that "the usual" tensions that led to the massacre arose between two males.
Clive and Elsa lose control of her as Dren's development progresses. Dren kills the house cat intended for her with its sting and also threatens to attack Elsa. Elsa then operates on her sting and poison glands. However, the sting grows back, as will become clear later. Clive is seduced into sexual intercourse by Dren and caught red-handed by Elsa. A serious relationship crisis ensues, but the two seem to have overcome it. Shortly afterwards Dren dies and is buried by Elsa and Clive. The two did not notice, however, that Dren was not really dead, but has changed sex in the meantime and is resurrected from her supposed grave as a male being. As a young "man", Dren kills Clive's brother and her boss in a dramatic showdown and rapes Elsa. Clive then pierces Dren with a stick, but this remains capable of fighting and overwhelms Clive. Elsa hits Dren with a boulder, but hesitates to kill him. Dren can still stab Clive in the heart with his sting. Only now that Dren has killed Clive does Elsa finally kill Dren with the boulder.
In the last scene, Elsa is in a management office. The group will benefit greatly from the experiment and will be able to apply for new patents for years. Elsa receives a generous bonus from her employer for her confidentiality and the personal risk that she is now taking on with a new test phase. When she gets up from her chair, it becomes clear that she is pregnant.
publication
The film premiered on October 6, 2009 at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya , where it won the award for the best effects and was in the selection for the best film. The German film release was on June 3, 2010. In the USA, the film grossed only 7.5 million dollars on the opening weekend and came in at number eight in the box office. In Germany, 30,000 cinema-goers saw the film by the Sunday of the premiere week, which put it in seventh place on the cinema charts.
Reviews
"While moments of shock are used in a well-dosed manner, the tension develops primarily from an explosive 'family melodrama' carried by good actors and atmospheric spatial poetics."
“The film [surprises] with its ambivalent characters, impressive and original tricks for the budget and a creature that looks strange and familiar at the same time. A certain black humor and the overall appealing performances of the main actors make Splice a film that will at least be remembered longer than most other low-budget horror films. "
Frames
Splice appeared in two different versions. While the film was released in the US version in the USA , Canada and Great Britain , it was released in a slightly modified version in Germany and France . However, the difference in runtime is only about 30 seconds.
Web links
- Splice - The Genexperiment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review on independentfilme.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Splice - Das Genexperiment . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 687 K).
- ↑ Age designation for Splice - Das Genexperiment . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Splice at sitgesfilmfestival.com , accessed June 3, 2010
- ↑ Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Prize Winner , accessed on June 3, 2010
- ↑ Splice - The Gene Experiment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Harald Peters: Incest with the clone child: “Splice” mixes Freud with DNA horror. Welt Online , June 3, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Oliver Lysiak: Splice film review. Moviepilot.de , accessed on July 29, 2010 .
- ↑ Comparison between the German version and the US version on Schnittberichte.com