Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Practical Effects
Dren's creature design—CGI and practical effects in unholy union
Acting
Sarah Polley's descent from control freak to controlled
Direction
Natali makes the lab feel like a womb and a tomb
Director
Vincenzo Natali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Delphine Chanéac performed Dren's movements in reverse leg braces to create that unsettling, not-quite-human gait.
Natali conceived this as 'punk rock' response to PG-13 sci-fi—studios hated the ending so much they barely released it theatrically in the US.
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