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Splice

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Splice	comment	Splice is a 2009 sci-fi/Body Horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley.The movie is about two young scientists and lovers, Clive and Elsa, who are world-renowned for both their research into gene splicing and their brash, iconoclastic attitude, and have made the cover of Wired magazine for their efforts. After creating two artificial organisms, named Fred and Ginger, for use in obtaining enzymes for medical research, they decide that the next step is to put human DNA into the mix.Acting in secret to avoid getting busted by their bosses at the pharmaceutical company, Clive and Elsa create Dren, a hybrid creature made from human and animal DNA that exhibits remarkable intelligence and physical attributes, as well as accelerated aging. Initially treating their creation as a cute pet, they soon have to move her to Elsa's old farmhouse once she grows too big for her britches. In addition, they have to worry about Gavin, Clive's brother and co-worker at the lab, once he figures out about Dren and threatens to spill the beans to their boss.There's also the fact that Dren, once a cute child, is now entering the equivalent of her teenage years, with all of the hormonal swings that this implies...Has nothing to do with Nelvana's animated series Spliced, even if both are Canadian works and involve freaky genetic hybrid monstrosities.
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Splice / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Splice / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Dren raping Elsa during the climax of the movie.
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Splice / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Splice / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: By the end of the movie, Dren has been bludgeoned (twice), drowned, poisoned, and stabbed.
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Splice / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Splice / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Dren's stinger coming out when she orgasms during sex with Clive. It looked like she was going to kill Clive at that point. Fred and Ginger are very phallic. This visual similarity subtly foreshadows the latter's sudden sex change.
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Splice / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Splice / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "What's the worst that could happen", Elsa? Turns out you could end up creating an ungodly, chimeric hybrid that tries to kill you, steals your man, turns male, kills him, his brother and your boss, and last but not least, rapes you and leaves you pregnant. And even after all that, Elsa's still at it.
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Splice / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Splice / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Elsa goes back and forth on this, at one point insisting that Dren is a "her" not an "it" but switches back to "it" later.
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Splice / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Splice / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Male Dren vs. the scientists. He's completely naked as he hunts and kills them.
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Splice / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Splice / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers make it seem like it's going to be a conventional horror movie about a genetically engineered monster that escapes from the lab and starts killing people. Granted, this is what happens eventually, but not until the last ten minutes or so, and before that it's actually a rather nuanced movie about Clive and Elsa struggling with the ethics of what they've done.
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Splice / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Splice / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Dren at one point shatters a window and exits through it, suffering no visible damage.
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Splice / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Splice / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: While Dren may have been a bit pushy with Clive, it was certainly consensual, but with Elsa, male Dren nearly immediately decided he was going to have sex with her, and didn't care if she wanted to.
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Splice / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Splice / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Ginger's spontaneous sex change. Since Dren had much of the same genes Ginger had, of course she eventually turns into a he.
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Splice / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Splice / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Subverted. On the surface, Clive and Elsa seem to be at least as motivated by fame and fortune as by the pursuit of science. Elsa also has another motivation — to have a child that she could have complete control over.
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Splice / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Splice / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: After it has been revealed that Elsa used some of her DNA to create Dren, she goes to explain to Dren that she is a part of her. That she is inside of her. At the climax of the film, just before Male Dren rapes her:
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Splice / int_25c83363	type	Bald Mystic
Splice / int_25c83363	comment	Bald Mystic: Dren is completely bald and it only serves to highlight her alien/not fully human nature.
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Splice / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Splice / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Subverted when Clive 'drowns' Dren, only for this to cause her gills to activate.
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Splice / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Splice / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Ginger turns from female to male due to hormonal changes, and fights Fred (who was male from the start) during a press conference that unleashes a shower of blood on the crowd. Dren later does the same thing.
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Splice / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Splice / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: From a purely biological standpoint, Dren's wings would not work very well in real life and don't serve any purpose in the film until the third act.
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Splice / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Splice / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Dren starts displaying increasingly erratic and violent behavior as her adolescence kicks in.
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Splice / int_40c908c2	type	Hybrids Are a Crapshoot
Splice / int_40c908c2	comment	Hybrids Are a Crapshoot: The entire premise. Clive and Elsa create Dren from a hybrid of many different DNA strands, making her a humanoid with gills, wings, and a prehensile tail, but her human side makes her emotionally unpredictable. And that's before she undergoes a spontaneous sex change into a male form (foreshadowed by a similiar transformation in an earlier test subject), and rapes Elsa. At the end, having learned apparently nothing from the experience, a visibly pregnant Elsa agrees to be paid by her company to carry her pregnancy to term.
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Splice / int_49d3b595	type	Cradle of Loneliness
Splice / int_49d3b595	comment	Cradle of Loneliness: Dren does this with a cat at one point while Elsa and Clive are away.
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Splice / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Splice / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: After a whole movie of treating Dren terribly, Dren turns into a male and kills Clive, Barlowe, and Gavin, and rapes Elsa, who is forced to kill Dren after bonding with them by bashing their skull in. Elsa is then shown pregnant with Dren's child, and, apparently having learned nothing from the whole experience, chooses not to abort the unknown, incestuous, hybrid being developing inside her.
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Splice / int_4f659cba	type	Nature Is Not a Toy
Splice / int_4f659cba	comment	Nature Is Not a Toy: Clive and Elsa created a pair of vermiforms named Fred and Ginger for the express purpose of having an easily available source of enzymes and other medical research. When the two specimens prove to be a success, they take their research of gene splicing a little further by introducing human DNA into their next creation, Dren, and take her away from the labs of the pharmaceutical company they work for to prevent them from being discovered. Because Clive and Elsa neglected to keep an eye on Fred and Ginger, they fail to realize Ginger became a male in the interim before the two specimens fight to the death. It's a trait Dren inherits, and after her transition into a male, Dren subsequently rapes and impregnates Elsa, and kills Clive and one of their bosses before Elsa kills Dren herself.
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Splice / int_51ed5fb9	type	Straw Hypocrite
Splice / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: Elsa spends the first half of the movie treating H-50 like a daughter, even naming her Dren. But when Dren kills the cat that she had previously been enamored with and threatens to do the same to her, Elsa straps Dren to an operating table, removes the clothes and makeup she'd given her, and cuts her stinger off while referring to her as H-50 again, citing "disproportionate species identification" — which she had been actively encouraging earlier on — as an explanation for Dren's "dangerous psychological developments".
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Splice / int_521aa24a	type	Dramatic Necklace Removal
Splice / int_521aa24a	comment	Dramatic Necklace Removal: Dren uses her stinger to yank off the necklace holding the barn key after she kills her cat and pins down Elsa.
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Splice / int_59b571c	type	Destroy the Abusive Home
Splice / int_59b571c	comment	Destroy the Abusive Home: Elsa burns down the cellar where she lived with her abusive mother.
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Splice / int_5a4ae281	type	Hellish Pupils
Splice / int_5a4ae281	comment	Hellish Pupils: Dren has cross-shaped pupils, as an indicator of her hybrid nature.
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Splice / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Splice / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Played with. Dren is treated as the lead scientists' child and was created using Elsa's DNA. After hitting puberty, the creature has sex with Clive, and upon becoming male, it forces itself on Elsa.
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Splice / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Splice / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: We see Dren tilting her head when she walks in on Clive and Elsa having sex.
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Splice / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Splice / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: At the end of the film, Elsa is pregnant with Dren's baby, and the boss thanks Elsa for her readiness to carry on with "phase two" of the project. However, the creator has stated that he doesn't think there will be one, preferring to leave the film with a 'question'.
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Splice / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Splice / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Dren is being made, the DNA sequences on Clive's computer are from the Diposaurus dorsalis (desert iguana), Bufo cognatus (Great Plains toad), and Aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle).
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Splice / int_6e92a631	type	Four-Fingered Hands
Splice / int_6e92a631	comment	Four-Fingered Hands: Dren has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, due to the fact that she a hybrid creature spliced from an unholy mixture of animals' DNA that widely varies in the number of fingers each species has.
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Splice / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Splice / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "What's the worst that could happen?"
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Splice / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Splice / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Dren did not choose to be created by two renegade scientists, then kept in a barn as their secret experiment/love child/pet. After maturing, it becomes a dangerously unstable monster who has no qualms killing or raping its victims.
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Splice / int_7fb534b7	type	Plot-Relevant Age-Up
Splice / int_7fb534b7	comment	Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The animal genes within Dren cause her to mature to adulthood in just a few weeks. But the cells showed to explain Dren's aging divide really, really quickly.
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Splice / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Splice / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: Dren is named after Clive and Elsa's company, Nucleic Exchange Research and Development (NERD).
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Splice / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Splice / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Dren falls in love with Clive, and eventually has sex with him.
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Splice / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
Splice / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: The final scene reveals that Elsa is pregnant by Dren's male adult form, and she's persuaded by the genetic engineering Corrupt Corporate Executive not to abort the whatever-it-is she's carrying, so that it can be studied alive.
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Splice / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Splice / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: When Elsa takes the cat away from Dren, the latter is heartbroken. When Elsa later relents and gives the cat back, Dren promptly impales the cat with a Psychotic Smirk and then threatens to do the same to Elsa while stealing the key to the barn. This prompts Elsa to stop treating Dren like a human.
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Splice / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Splice / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Dren. Except for two words. It also makes several screeching noises too.
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Splice / int_9228e13b	type	Disastrous Demonstration
Splice / int_9228e13b	comment	Disastrous Demonstration: The live media event promoting Fred and Ginger turns into a complete debacle when Ginger (now male) and Fred gorily battle to the death.
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Splice / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
Splice / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: When Dren switches from being female to male its breasts disappear, its face becomes harsher, its skin becomes darker, spines emerge from its lower back, and it its dorsal fins become larger and more monstrous-looking.
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Splice / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Splice / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Elsa is the only one to come out alive from the events of the last ten minutes. Dren is only killed when she becomes male.
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Splice / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Splice / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At one point, Gavin comments to Clive that Ginger seems to have lower estrogen levels than before. Ginger turns into a male in front of an auditorium full of shareholders. Oh, and since Dren has so much of their genes in her system...
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Splice / int_9e0b9695	type	Flight
Splice / int_9e0b9695	comment	Flight: Dren eventually sprouts a pair of wings that enable her to fly.
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Splice / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Splice / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: While a creation by science via gene splicing, Dren actually fits the bill for a succubus and incubus pretty closely.
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Splice / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Splice / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Clive and Elsa argue after Elsa cuts off Dren's stinger and Clive has sex with her, they both realize just how badly they've mistreated her.
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Splice / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Splice / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Two married scientists pioneer a new technology to 'plug and play' any number of different animal's DNA together to produce new unique organisms. They decide to take the next step and insert human DNA into the mix. This works out about as well as you would expect.
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Splice / int_a49f4fb2	type	How Did You Know? I Didn't
Splice / int_a49f4fb2	comment	How Did You Know? I Didn't: Ambiguously. When Dren develops a serious fever, the two try getting it to go down by filling a sink with cold water and putting her in it. When it doesn't seem to be working, Clive suddenly holds Dren under the water, with Elsa begging him to stop. Eventually Dren starts breathing, revealing that she has gills. Elsa is amazed, and asks Clive how he knew she had them. When he doesn't answer, she asks him if he did know. After a pause, Clive says he did.
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Splice / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Splice / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Dren can shift the tone of the scene at a moment's notice by switching between animal and human behavior. Either side can be utterly adorable or terrifying.
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Splice / int_a7aa2277	type	Lab Pet
Splice / int_a7aa2277	comment	Lab Pet: The movie zig-zags with this trope, with the scientists constantly shifting between treating Dren as a test subject, a pet, an adoptive child, and a lover when he/she takes on an adult human appearance.
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Splice / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Splice / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The entire sound track is suspenseful, as would suit a horror film. The film doesn't become a horror movie until the third act.
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Splice / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Splice / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Dren turns into a bloodthirsty killer after her Gender Bender... which is quite jarring when comparing that to her naive, childish female form. Though you would be pretty pissed off too if you had to claw your way out a grave your parents dug for you. They did think she was dead, but her mother had also just finished cutting off her stinger the night before.
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Splice / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Splice / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Elsa and Clive are terrible parents. Elsa starts out alright, acting very motherly and tender toward Dren. However, as the movie progresses, she starts doing things that could be considered abusive. There's sealing Dren in a box against her will (even if it was to keep her hidden as they moved her), isolating her in a barn and never letting her leave, yelling at her, not letting her have a cat she found, arguing with Clive in front of her, and the absolute peak of it has GOT to be when she decides to cut off her stinger tail after she kills her cat. Elsa is implied to have had an abusive mother herself. She doesn't have many fond memories of her, to say the least.
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Splice / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Splice / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Said by Elsa word-for-word when Clive sees that she's cut off Dren's tail.
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Splice / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Adrien Brody shirtless? Awesome! Adrien Brody shirtless during and after a sex scene with an inhuman creature that's also supposed to be be his character's adoptive child? NOT awesome!
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