This dark, thought-provoking sci-fi movie is a cautionary tale about screwing with Mother Nature.

Two scientist lovers, Clive and Elsa (Dawn Of The Dead’s Sarah Polley and King Kong’s Adrien Brody), develop a new species through genetic splicing. When Elsa sneakily introduces human DNA into the mix, creating a hybrid named Dren, the three become entangled in  a bizarre love triangle.

The film’s concept is modelled  on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but co-writer/director Vincenzo Natali  has dragged the monster kicking  and screaming into the 21st century. Thankfully, he focuses on the characters’ emotional turmoil and the horror of the situation, rather than drowning the plot in psychobabble.

The flawless CGI in this slick, atmospheric movie captures Dren’s rapid development – from awkward, alien, chicken-like thing into a gorgeous, yet unpredictable creature – and her transition mirrors the film’s changing mood right up until its violent,  corpse-strewn finale.
 
The relationship between the scientists and their creation is impressively believable and the plot will unnerve and excite you, especially as the technology featured in it exists, meaning that in the near future, creatures like Dren could too – if they don’t already!

Billy Chainsaw