Natali appears to have absorbed into his own aesthetic DNA.Īlthough Fred’s point-of-view shot might seem like a throwaway, it’s fundamental to Mr. Such is the case in “The Fly,” David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, another cautionary tale about genetic mayhem that Mr. The money bankrolling them comes from a pharmaceutical outfit, one of those shady corporations that occasionally foot the bill in movies of this sort. Brody play Clive and Elsa, live-in lovers and rock-star bio-engineers (they’re on the cover of Wired), who are creating new organisms from the DNA of different animals.
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That’s a good thing, and it helps explain how “Splice” delivers for the horror movie fan who has grown weary of being suckered by films that promise new frights only to deliver the same old buckets of gore and guts. When these two bleed, you might actually care. Brody on board, there’s a chance that despite the big-studio brands on the movie, you’re not headed into genre purgatory with the usual disposable plastic people who often populate (and perish in) mainstream horror.
Given their respective performative idiosyncrasies and, as important, their singularly nontraditional beauty, the pair’s casting immediately signals that the director Vincenzo Natali is after something different. The two recognizable stars of “Splice,” a pleasurably shivery, sometimes delightfully icky horror movie about love and monsters in the age of genetic engineering, are Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, a well-matched pair of earthbound oddities.
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