I cannot recommend Splice because while the concept is genuinely disturbing, it is mostly poorly executed so you may only get a hot fifteen minutes, and I am being generous, of visceral horror.

| Jan 4, 2025

Gets points for being bizarre and incorporating evocative body-horror elements, though the story itself doesn't offer up anything substantial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2023

In concept alone, not to mention the first exciting half-hour, the film promises greatness before failing to live up to those promises with a second half that feels emotionally disengaged and a finale that’s rushed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

Splice invents new nightmares with Dren. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2022

It takes the goalposts of a made-for-SyFy movie and goes so far with them that we as viewers are left in awe.

| Sep 10, 2021

The big showdown, when it comes, is a disappointment. But on reflection, that's probably because the determination to get there overshadows the moral ambiguity of human decisions which is, as in life, where the real horror lies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2021

Nothing can quite prepare you for the last 15 minutes of this movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2021

It takes a deeply debated subject and treats it with the utmost seriousness for the first half-hour, then slowly digresses into an often uncomfortably bizarre monster movie.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 30, 2020

A film that detours from potential greatness for the sake of a few dark laughs and modestly chilling thrills.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Brody and Polley both bring a seriousness of purpose to their portrayal...their authenticity lends an air of substance to what might have been just another risible creature feature in the hands of lesser actors...

| Mar 5, 2020

Bottom line: Splice asks you to suspend your disbelief to the extreme, but if you can, it's a whole lot of fun.

| Mar 8, 2019

Natali's Splice is an engaging, disquieting and most of all thought-provoking film that asks complex questions about the nature of parenthood, the ethics of medical science and what it is to be human.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Where the movie succeeds - and I think it does succeed, overwhelmingly - is in drawing you into an emotional relationship with its characters.

| May 23, 2018

[Director Natali] treads the fine line of a film that is just believable enough to get the audience's attention, and sci-fi enough for us to think this could never happen. Or could it?

| May 18, 2018

Despite the conventional plot it's always fun, even when the action gets increasingly absurd.

| May 14, 2018

Though Splice has viscera a-plenty, the horror of it isn't in the gore. It's in the notion that sometimes children end up evil and it might be entirely our fault.

| Aug 9, 2017

A grisly and raw cautionary tale on the dangers of science without regard to consequences.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2014

Who would have thought talent of that calibre would combine to create such a catastrophic stinker.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 15, 2013

Because of the writers' choice to stay so superficial, we get a sluggishly-paced, forgettable thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 1, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011