Splinter (I) (2008)

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

Director:

Toby Wilkins

Writers:

Ian Shorr, Kai Barry,

Stars:

Charles Baker, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo

7 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Charles Baker	...	Blake Sherman Jr.
Jill Wagner	...	Polly Watt
Paulo Costanzo	...	Seth Belzer
Shea Whigham	...	Dennis Farell
Rachel Kerbs	...	Lacey Belisle
Laurel Whitsett	...	Sheriff Terri Frankel

Storyline

While camping in the woods, Polly Watt and her clumsy boyfriend Seth Belzer damage their tent. They decide to spend the night in a low-budget motel. Meanwhile the criminals, Lacey Belisle and Dennis Farell, have trouble with their runaway car while heading to Platt and they walk on the lonely road. When Polly passes by Lacey, she stops the car and the couple is rendered by Dennis. However, Polly hits something in the road and while replacing the tire, they are attacked by a weird splinter. The car overheats and they stop in a gas station, where they are trapped by zombies, victims of the splinter parasite.

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Plot Keywords:

gas station | parasite | escaped convict | tent | woods | 

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Taglines:

Terror is more than skin deep.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 April 2009 (Turkey)

Also Known As:

Está dentro de ti

Filming Locations:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Indion Entertainment Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At the end of the movie Farrell gives Seth the key to a lock box in a bank in Platt and tells him to go there to get his nest egg to give to the trucker's wife. The address listed on the tag is 1060 W. Addison. This is the address for Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, IL.

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Goofs

Diesel fuel only burns as a mist. Shooting a diesel fuel-pump with a shotgun wouldn't do anything.

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Quotes

Seth Belzer: [after watching the parasite tear a police officer apart] It ah... it took half of her.

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Connections

Referenced in Jennifer's Body (2009)

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Soundtracks

"West"
Written by Jodee Purkeypile
Performed by The Alice Rose

User Reviews

Low budget The Thing

Face it, for its budget and for the entire what? 6 people cast? it was a pretty decent movie. Original it was not, except maybe the creature concept, but it provided the entertainment one would expect from something like this.

The plot is simple enough: a fungus like entity is infecting anything alive and uses their bodies in very innovative ways to get to move bodies. It's a fungus zombie thingie! I liked that it dropped any pretense that a simple organism could use the human body as the original host did. It reminded me of The Thing, of course, only that it had no Kurt Russell and that it was placed in some old US forest where "logging sucks".

If it weren't for the really weak cast (the only one supporting the movie was Jill Wagner) and the fact that a fungus of this infectiousness would have quickly overrun the entire forest and continued until the world ended, it would have been a gem.

Bottom line: grab a beer, watch it when you feel like doing nothing, it won't disappoint.