Something sexy but dangerous is coming out of the lab this August...

Cube (1997) director Vincenzo Natali finally brings us the oft-delayed SF thriller/horror Splice on August 6th, on which more info after the trailer...

Splice's apparent mixture of science and female sexuality recalls the Species franchise at a glance, but we note the effort made by the VFX team to give Dren eyes that are impossibly wide-apart, Avatar-style.

The film, produced by Guillermo Del Toro, tells the story of two scientists, played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, who the official synopsis describes as 'superstars of the scientific world', and who decide to push genetic manipulation a stage further with the creation of an animal-human hybrid (Delphine Chanéac) that threatens to grow beyond their control - and beyond the control of anyone.

Written by Doug Taylor and Antoinette Terry Bryant, Splice was intended as the follow-up to Cube, but technological and budget restrictions at the time put the SF project on the back burner whilst Natali got on with Cypher (2002), Nothing (2003) Getting Gilliam (2005) and Paris, je t'aime (2006).

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