Dark, sleek, funny and creepily infectious, the genetic-engineering horror-comedy “Splice” is a dynamic comeback vehicle for Canadian genre director Vincenzo Natali, who made a splash a few years ago ...

It's a bird! It's a platelet! It's a hot bald chick! The laboratory concoction at the center of "Splice" grows from a mixture of human and animal DNA. Several animals. She -- It? They? -- is smart, ...

The scientists at the center of Splice should have watched a couple of horror movies - that way, they'd know to never go against the moral code and inject human DNA into one of their genetic creations ...

With that kind of success, one might think the former child star, now 31 years-old, would give up life in front of the camera and take a permanent seat in a director’s chair, but Polley has a mind of ...

Creative inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes. For Vincenzo Natali, director of the new film “Splice,” opening June 4 from Warner Bros., it arrived in the form of a mouse. Specifically, a ...

There’s already controversy swirling around Splice, the tale of a dangerous genetic experiment who looks like a beautiful woman. Directed by the indie auteur behind Cube, Vincenzo Natali, the movie is ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

In its early stages of development, the cautionary sci-fi/horror thriller “Splice” surprises you with how non-horror-thriller-like it is. For a time, the bumps, jolts, screams and gore are markedly ...

Vincenzo Natali nearly died while making his first movie, “Cube.” Made on a shoestring budget, his 1997 psychological horror only had one practical set — a huge, boobie-trap-filled cuboid prison to ...

The genetic mutation at the center of the science-fiction thriller "Splice" is a beautiful, often menacing, bald creature named Dren. But director Vincenz Natali originally had plans to give the ...