Splice
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
Director: Vincenzo Natali Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 2009
Starring: Adrien Brody, Amanda Brugel, David Hewlett, Delphine Chanéac, Sarah Polley
Vincenzo Natali (Cube) directs and Guillermo Del Toro produces this twisted tale of a pair of rebellious scientists (Sarah Polley & Adrien Brody) who defy legal and ethical boundaries to forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren,” the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful human-chimera. The pair raise the creature as their own, but as Dren reaches maturity, their bond takes a turn towards the depraved and the deadly.
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