With a mixture of sex and gore that would make David Cronenberg proud, Splice succeeds as a thoughtful film about the dangers of playing God, or even just playing Mom/Dad. Director Vincenzo Natali burst onto the scene in the 1990's with the mind-bending thriller that was Cube, only to retreat to B-movie territory for the past decade. Splice marks his foray into the [semi]-mainstream.  ...read more