12/11/2023 0 Comments Dren movie![]() ![]() Rather than straight sci-fi, it’s a fantastical riff on the Frankenstein tale (the characters’ names are shoutouts to the most famous film version) with the mad scientist as an irresponsible mom this time instead of a dad. Splice scarcely attempts to make its conceit plausible. When Brody’s character tells Polley’s that “This was never about science,” he’s describing the film itself. She’s one of a kind - and her teenage hormones are kicking in. Within a matter of weeks the squirrel-like creature has grown into an intelligent humanoid (Delphine Chanéac) with the face of a melancholy silent-film actress, the tail of a scorpion and the legs of a goat. Before you can say, “Mary Shelley,” the couple’s mutant “child” is scampering around the lab, chirping and keening. They’re also so cool that, when the Big Pharma company bankrolling their research orders them to stop creating blobby genetic mutants and focus on practical applications, their response is to risk one last secret experiment - with human DNA thrown into the mix. And if finding yourself bursting out laughing at should-be-disturbing plot twists is never something you enjoy at the movies, I advise giving this one a pass.īut if that description wasn’t enough to scare you off, here’s more: Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play Clive and Elsa, a pair of cohabitating biochemists who are so cool they refuse to wear lab coats. If you don’t cotton to the special Canadian blend of mad-scientist motifs, poignancy and B-movie camp that David Cronenberg peddled back in the days of The Brood, you may not want to see it at all. Be warned that this is a film you really don’t want to see with your mom, dad or offspring. You see, writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s film, which appears from its trailers to be an Alien-like scare flick, is actually about parenthood. Joan offers Elsa one more moment to reconsider, asking if she really wants to go through with this pregnancy.The week that brings us Seven Days’ Parenting Issue also brings us Splice, and that could be viewed as a fortuitous coincidence or an instance of cosmic irony. Elsa signs on the dotted line, then stands up, showing that she is pregnant. ![]() ![]() Joan offers Elsa a generous settlement for agreeing to take her research to the next stage. This will guarantee the company's existence for years to come. In the final scene, which takes place some time later in the office of Joan Chorot ( Simona Maicanescu), Joan tells Elsa that Dren's body was filled with a variety of unique compounds, including high levels of CD356. As Clive dies, Elsa bashes Dren in the head with a rock, then collapses in the snow. He sneaks up behind Elsa and Dren, and runs a stake through Dren's back, but Dren stabs Clive with the poison stinger on the tip of his tail. Clive regains full consciousness and stumbles towards Elsa, finding his brother Gavin dead in the snow. "In.side.you," Dren replies and rapes her. Suddenly Dren rises from the water, and it is readily apparent that the same thing as happened to Ginger has happened to Dren.she has become a he. Clive manages to break free, and Elsa pulls him from the water. He tries to fish it out, but Dren pulls him into the pond and holds him under the water. Clive tries to run to him but drops the flashlight in a pond. They try to coax her down, but she flies past them and grabs Gavin. They hear another shriek, and they suddenly see a fully mutated Dren standing on the roof. Elsa, Clive, and Gavin look around and find him bloodied and murdered, hanging from a tree. Barlow goes behind the barn to do so, but there is a sudden gust of wind, a shriek, and Barlow is gone. Barlow demands to see Dren, so Elsa tosses him a shovel and tells him to dig her up. Barlow discovered human DNA in the samples and got Gavin to tell him about Dren. As they're burning her things, Gavin ( Brandon McGibbon) and Barlow ( David Hewlett) drive up. Elsa and Clive return to the barn to find Dren dying. ![]()
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