A Canadian horror film proved so controversial due to a raunchy romp that Hollywood refused to fund it.
Instead, filmmaker Vincenzo Natali sought funding from the French to make his 2009 flick Splice, which featured a racy sex scene with a “half woman, half creature”. In the movie, Adrien Brody’s character Clive Nicoli is a genetic engineer who defies the boundaries of science to splice together the DNA of different animals to create hybrids.
But in one scene, he creates a half human woman, half… something else. Known as Dren, and played by Delphine Chanéac, the creature had a long tail and bird claws for feet, with a bald head and narrow eyes.
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In the scene in question, Brody’s character gets intimate with Dren – and it was enough to put industry officials off the movie for good. Natali confessed in 2010: “That scene was the reason I wanted to make the film and that’s why it’s such a miracle this film exists.
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“No studio wanted to make it, because of [the] sexual part of the story. So we had to go to France. And the French, of course, had no problem with it.”
He went on to Entertainment Weekly: “I really think that Dren is an object of desire, but not in the most obvious sense. I felt she had an androgynous quality. I didn’t want to make Dren overtly sexual. I wanted people to fall in love with her rather than in lust.
“Also, I feel like an androgynous beauty is perhaps a little more evolved. Like David Bowie is maybe more evolved than the rest of us.”
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He later confessed that the raunchy scene “separates the men from the boys”, explaining to HeyUGuys: “No matter where I am, and I’ve traveled through the States with the film and people go crazy, they scream, they laugh, they yell at the screen. I knew that the scene would get a response but I never expected that level of response and it’s clearly tweaking some nerves.”
In the disturbing scene, Dren spreads her arms wide while straddling Clive, with wings sprouting from her arms as his hands rake across her fully naked body. Things only get more disturbing as Dren is technically underage, with Clive having raised her as a daughter – accelerating her physical growth artificially.
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Fans who only discovered the movie on Netflix this year have been left utterly disturbed, and flooded social media with comments about the “haunting” film. One wrote: “This movie made me physically ill!” while someone else agreed: “I was traumatised by this movie.”
Somebody else penned “This movie will forever haunt me,” while another said: “Just watched Splice, never felt so disturbed in my life.”
Despite later being distributed by Warner Bros in the States, the movie failed to make a profit – scooping just $27.1million after blowing a production budget of $30million.
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