Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Hillside Cannibals

Wow. That's all i have to say about this.

I got this one out of the horror section at blockbuster- the best section ever.

Think Hills Have Eyes with Caveman and House of Wax (minus the wax) all in one movie and THAT is Hillside Cannibals.

Splice

This is interesting. I do enjoy myself a good sci-fi flick every so often (actually most of the time it's my preferred movie choice...or a b-list horror movie!)...

Anyway. Adrien Brody and Random Blonde chick play two scientists (perhaps 50 years in the future?) that work in a lab splicing different animal DNA together to create a weird creature thing and synthesize some proteins for human usage to cure disease, cancer, AIDS, etc etc. They want to splice human DNA in at some point, but they get rejected because the lab got different funding and so of course they do it anyway.

A good 10 minutes of the movie is spent with them staring at a screen with chromosomes that says FAIL! you suck at being scientists, then all of a sudden YAY! it works. They create some strange human-fish-tadpole-bird-hamster-mouse creature that grows really fast. It's weird-has no hair and has weird pointy horse-bird feet. Oh, and it's androgynous and/or changes sex.

THe rest of the movie is consumed with Random Hot Blonde Scientist forming a mother-child like bond with said creature, peeking into R.H.B.S.'s past life and how her mother was evil and now RHBS has to be a control freak. Oh, also, Adrien Brody falls for Creature and sleeps with it, then RHBS catches them and goes into a tizzy.

The ending of the movie was kind of "meh", so I'll save that for you to experience. It was another cop-out ending all M. Night Syahadmhahamlalan-like, so it was kind of disappointing. The relationships between the characters is kind of interesting, but has "Stereotypical Psychology Case Study" written all over it. All in all, it was pretty ok, but I probably won't watch it again.