She grows bored of confinement, but Elsa and Clive fear she might be discovered outside. Dren reveals she has carnivorous tendencies and retractable wings and enters adolescence. The couple moves Dren to the isolated farm where Elsa grew up. Ginger had spontaneously changed into a male, but Elsa and Clive failed to notice as they were focused on Dren. At a publicized presentation, Fred and Ginger fight and kill each other. Meanwhile, Elsa and Clive neglect their work with Fred and Ginger. This forces Dren to use her gills, revealing she is amphibious. Elsa notices Dren has a fever and tries to cool her in an industrial-sized sink of cold water. After it spells out NERD with toys after seeing the acronym on Elsa's shirt, Elsa names it "Dren".Ĭlive’s brother Gavin discovers Dren, but flees after she jumps on him. The hybrid physically ages much faster than humans and mentally develops like a human child. Although they planned to terminate before the hybrid reached full term, Elsa persuades Clive to let it live. However, Clive and Elsa follow their plans in secret and develop a viable prepubescent female creature. Their employers Joan Chorot and William Barlow forbid this and order them to focus on identifying and extracting proteins from Fred and Ginger for drug production. After successfully mating them, Clive and Elsa plan to create a revolutionary human–animal hybrid. Their work has yielded Fred and Ginger, two large vermiform creatures intended as mates for each other. (short for Nucleic Exchange Research and Development). Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by splicing animal DNA to create hybrids for medical use at the company N.E.R.D. Theatrically released on June 4, 2010, the film received generally positive reviews from critics but was commercially unsuccessful, and grossed just $27.1 million against a $30 million production budget. Guillermo del Toro, Don Murphy, and Joel Silver are the executive producers of this film. The story concerns experiments in genetic engineering being done by a young scientific couple, who attempt to introduce human DNA into their work of splicing animal genes resulting in the creation of a human–animal hybrid. Splice left plenty of room for a sequel, but so far, there's no sign of future endeavors.Splice is a 2009 science fiction horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac. Though Dren is killed at the end of the film, it's revealed that Elsa's rape resulted in pregnancy. The humanoid aspects of Dren make her even more terrifying - and vicious - because the human side of her could very well propel Splice's bizarre ending sequences that include Dren abruptly changing her own gender, then sexually assaulting Elsa. Her legs are bowed, her body lean, but her face and upper torso very much resemble a human female, which is bolstered by the fact that Dren is played by an actress (Chanéac), and isn't fully CGI. Dren also has a long tail with a barbed end, like a venomous stinger. As she develops and goes through puberty, Dren simultaneously exhibits signs of human adolescence, including a sexual attraction to her own creator, Clive.Īs far as appetite, Dren's carnivorous nature is immediate foreshadowing that she might become dangerous, and she later develops wings that are similar to a bat. It is at this point where she starts to show signs of other species' traits - they learn Dren is, at least in part, amphibious, as drowning doesn't kill her. One sequence has him attempting to drown Dren in water, though his intentions are dubious. Yet, during various stages, both scientists seem to have regrets, particularly Clive. Clive and Elsa have known failure with their experiments before, yet still become attached to the highly intelligent, curious Dren who seems more humanoid than animal as she rapidly develops and ages.
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