Splice

I’d like to share some thoughts on Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali (famous for making Cube). It's basically about a couple playing around with genetic splicing, making a creature and things get creepy. Sci-fi horror of the more science kind.
MovieBob does these things a lot better though so I’ll just link his review here (and I agree on most points).
You might want to see the trailer and the IMDB entry (Wikipedia keeps cockslapping me in the face with their unseeable spoilers D: )
...and my thoughts after the jump.

Brrr.

This was an incredibly good awkward movie. I mean, it was really good. Great, in fact. But very, very disturbing. It was a disturbing horror movie. Not like, Saw disturbing as in torture, gore, etc. Perhaps a little on the visual side, but mostly the creepy parts were either in the general atmosphere or in the mere concept of the events.

On the positive part, this also created excellent immersion by the use of generally forbidden and tabooed themes (which is also one of the better aspects of what horror films are generally capable of).

The take on science is really cool. Many awesome details in Dren (the creature), like, she was designed by using DNA from herbivores (and a little bit of human), which led to her eyes being pushed toward the sides. The scientists are very believable when it comes to their behaviour and cause. They act on both rational and irrational motives, on several aspects, which make the characters contrasted, interesting and - haha - human. Perhaps, one may criticize them not being enough developed, explored, and so on, as the film focuses less on their direct interests and history, than their actual behaviour. Apart from Clive’s taste of music and pieces of Elsa’s past one rarely gets any details about the lead characters which make them more archetypal and, distant.
On a deeper level, this film has much to say when it comes to the human error in science and research. I don’t find it to be anti-science, directly: instead it seems to point out that personal gains, greed, and so on provide dangerous and irrational behaviour which may have chatastrophic results when applied wrong. This does not mean that science itself is wrong, just that it shouldn’t be hurried and done the wrong way.

I really liked the music. It felt sort of retro-horror, reminded me of Aliens. The effects seem a bit off-putting at the beginning, but look perfectly real when the film gets to its main story.