Splinter

2008

Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

40
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 43736 43.7K

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Plot summary

When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.

Director

Toby Wilkins Photo
Toby Wilkins

Top cast

Jill Wagner Photo
Jill Wagner as Polly Watt
Paulo Costanzo Photo
Paulo Costanzo as Seth Belzer
Shea Whigham Photo
Shea Whigham as Dennis Farell
Charles Baker Photo
Charles Baker as Blake Sherman Jr.
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
753.88 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 5
1.51 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Scodelli 7 / 10

Solid indie horror flick

So this movie is a kind of an independent horror film. It's working with a lower budget.But first off the acting is not just adequate, it's great.The characters are believable and well cast.Splinter makes great use of it's low budget. With good acting, some gnarly gore and good creature design. It's the best it can be on a low budget. And it is good.Is it amazing? No. But it doesn't have any glaring flaws. A nice movie for a friday night.It's a great indie sci-fi/creature feature movie. With a solid script and no glaring flaws.I thought about giving it a 6/10 because it's not earth-shattering but I think it deserves a 7/10 for how solid and well executed it is.In the end it is a smart little creature feature that makes the most of it's budget.
Reviewed by thecanadian-23317 6 / 10

Great idea marred by incomprehensible shaky cam

Plot wise, this is a pretty typical zombie/infection style story - but the type of infection is a really great twist. I'll keep it that vague just so that you can enjoy it as blind as possible. Acting is decent, and while it's definitely a low budget movie, most of the effects look pretty good (there's some shots that are pretty rough though).The problem is with the "action" scenes. I can handle some shaky cam, but the shaky cam in this movie is some of the worst I've ever seen - you can't follow anything. In one scene, a character gets killed but I literally couldn't tell until the other characters were reacting to it after it happened. I have to assume that the shaky cam is done to hide the lower budget effects, but it's bad enough that I'd rather see low budget effects.Overall I do think that the movie is worth a watch because it's a really fascinating spin on the zombie/infection type of story - just know that the shaky cam is VERY bad.
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