MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 193 this week

Splinter (I) (2008)

6.1
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.1/10 from 17,605 users   Metascore: 58/100
Reviews: 110 user | 140 critic | 13 from Metacritic.com

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:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 2364 titles created 4 months ago
 
a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 1177 titles created 4 weeks ago
 
a list of 59 titles created 18 Jul 2011
 
a list of 395 titles created 10 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Splinter (2008)

Splinter (2008) on IMDb 6.1/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Splinter.
7 wins & 1 nomination. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Carriers (2009)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X  

Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.

Directors: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor
Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo
Martyrs (2008)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Director: Pascal Laugier
Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Dread (2009)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X  

Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.

Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Stars: Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Wind Chill (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan
High Tension (2003)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

Two college friends, Marie and Alexa, encounter loads of trouble (and blood) while on vacation at Alexa's parents' country home when a mysterious killer invades their quiet getaway.

Director: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Cécile De France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  

A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Director: James Watkins
Stars: Emma Shorey, Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds
P2 (2007)
Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.

Director: Franck Khalfoun
Stars: Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols, Simon Reynolds
Near Dark (1987)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X  

A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

Director: Tony Randel
Stars: Ashley Laurence, Imogen Boorman, Kenneth Cranham
The Wolfman (2010)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

Director: Joe Johnston
Stars: Simon Merrells, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary.

Director: Peter Cornwell
Stars: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas
Edit

Cast

Cast overview:
...
...
...
...
...
...
Edit

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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Taglines:

Terror is more than skin deep. See more »

Genres:

Horror | Thriller

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore and language | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Official Sites:

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

3 April 2009 (Turkey)  »

Also Known As:

Está dentro de ti  »

Filming Locations:


Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See  »
Edit

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. See more »

Goofs

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

Quotes

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

Connections

Referenced in Jennifer's Body (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"West"
Written by Jodee Purkeypile
Performed by The Alice Rose
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

See more (Spoiler Alert!) »

User Reviews

 
Low budget The Thing
28 February 2009 | by (Romania) – See all my reviews

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.


21 of 32 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Creature's Origin jwstewartii
AMAZING movie. Another ones like this? read! kudlaty_true
Bad Movie faithinfilms
Congratulations on NOT using CGI solidblur
The Ice bit... adam_hussain-1
How many times do we have to watch the scene where... Phaleg36
Discuss Splinter (2008) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page