Movie of the Week 04-14-09
Splinter (Toby Wilkins, 2008)
An ingenious, wildly inventive little monster movie about four mismatched travellers trapped in a rural convenience store by a spiny, bodysnatching parasite. The fine folks at Magnet Video strike again...
Splinter (Toby Wilkins, 2008)
This horrifically unhinged & insidiously claustrophobic horror flick continues a run of swell B-Movie grisliness (Donkey Punch, Shuttle)
from Magnet Video, probably the most interesting label going just now.
A redneck ex-con & his meth-freak girlfriend kidnap a helplessly
urbane biology PhD candidate & his buxom, but handy,
tank-top-with-eyes of a girlfriend & are immediately set upon by
some fucked-up cross between a porcupine & the creature from Alien.
The quills -- or splinters -- on this creature animate corpses &
body parts the way Max Fleischer animated kitchen utensils & soon
our motley foursome are trapped in a gas station/convenience store
battling severed hands, some horribly contorted & demonically quick
dead bodies & their own infected limbs. Splinter also
inaugurates an honest to goodness B-Movie star in Shea Whigham (sort of
a white trash Robert Carlyle), who imbues his sacrificial rube with some
real verve & dimension.
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