Before I begin, there's some spoilers, but it's not like you're going to watch this movie anyways. Unless you do, in which case don't say I didn't warn you. Just don't, thanks.
Some things from the early 2000s should stay in the early 2000s, but this movie is just too wild not to revisit. I first watched Splice when I was about 12, with my mom (admittedly not her best parenting moment), and I remember it being incredibly out of pocket. But, when I rewatched it a few nights ago, I realized that my mind had blocked out the more disturbing parts of the film.
Like most poorly made sci-fi films, Splice is filled to the brim with terrible CGI, incoherent plot lines, and hilariously bad throw-away dialogue. What sets this film apart from others of its kind is the complete nose dive that it takes in the third act. The film opens with the protagonists, Clive (Adrian Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Poley), working in a lab to create some sort of new life form by splicing (there it is! There's the title) together DNA from different species. The end goal of this experiment is left pretty ambiguous, though Elsa alludes to it being vaguely related to pharmaceutical development.
The movie gets really messy when Elsa splices in a bit of her own DNA (something that is a big no-no in the movie's universe due to ethical implications.) in an underground experiment. What follows is so GROSS. Quick run through: this weird clone experiment results in a super NASTY humanoid thing that ages like a fruit fly. And instead of disposing of this thing after it exhibits murderous tendencies, Elsa grows strangely attached to it and coddles it like a child. THEN when the being becomes defiant, Elsa cuts off it's tail and leaves it tied up in a barn (talk about conditional love). To make a long story short, the film features unnecessary sex scenes (Clive has sex with the experiment and then later it morphs and forces itself onto Elsa, which was the absolute WORST thing I've scene in a sci-fi film as of late) and in the last scene we can see that Elsa was impregnated by the creature and is carrying the baby to full-term in the name of "science" or whatever.
To be honest by the 100 minute mark I was FED up and eagerly awaiting the credit roll. What makes this film all the more terrible is that it wastes the cast's talent with poor dialogue and just overall cringe. Bottom-line: don't watch this film, just read this article.
