DVD screencaps of Sarah in Splice have been added to the gallery. Enjoy the new additions.

New photos of Sarah and her co-stars attending the Splice premiere held on May 26th in Toronto have been added to the gallery.

Splice is set to open on June 4th from WB and Dark Castle.

What happens when after a couple of ambitious young scientists throw caution — and ethics — to the winds and create the world’s first animal-human hybrid? Splice, which debuted at Sundance this weekend, aims to show you the answer. And ultimately, it is the stuff of nightmares, with one early review by the horror aficionados over at FEARnet calling the movie “a true Frankenstein tale for the modern age.”

The story is not so easy to pigeonhole though, says Sarah Polley, who plays one of the not-so-cautious scientists, in an interview with AICN:

… it’s kind of a bit of everything. I think if you go in expecting a horror film, that’s not what you are going to get. If you expect sci-fi, it’s not totally what you are going to get, but it’s kind of a mix of a lot of different things and also I think just pulls off this very specific relationship, both between a couple and also their “child.” You see all the stages of parenthood played out in an extremely short space and time in their most nightmarish version. I guess it’s kind of a Freudian nightmare and it’s also got these horror elements and these sci-fi elements and stuff.

And, she adds, her character is complicated as well:

I play Elsa, who is an extremely ambitious, energetic, dynamic, and playful woman who loves to milk every second out of life. She’s also a little bit terrifying, because she is really manipulative and controlling. She wants to get what she wants and she usually does. I don’t think I have ever wanted to play a character as much as this one. She is so complicated and lovable, but totally messed up.

There is a suitably terrifying creature of course, played, in its adult form, by Delphine Chaneac. But when asked how scary the creature is, Polley insists that in this movie, it is not so much the creature, but the people that are truly scary.

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January 23, 2010
by Brandon Lee Tenney

When Vincenzo Natali introduced Splice — his latest film after Nothing, Cyper, and his cult-smash Cube — tonight at its world premiere, he simply said that this “film has no moral boundaries.” Instead, it’s probably more accurate to say that Splice has reset the moral boundary. This creature-feature is both an homage to and a worthy entry in the monster flick catalog. It’s horrifying, mesmerizing, and always spine-tingling. There are images in Splice that will haunt my dreams. Some of them for very different reasons than you might expect. And that’s the most entertaining piece of Splice; it’s just so unexpectedly unimaginable. Read the full story

Canwest News Service

PARK CITY, Utah – She’s been here. She’s done this. Many times. But Sarah Polley says there’s something unique about the Sundance two-step, no matter how many times you find yourself on the indie film dance floor in mukluks.

Looking perfectly fresh in a jam-packed hamburger joint substituting as a schmooze lounge during the film festival, Polley says it’s still a thrill.

“There’s the whole Sundance thing, but the festival itself still has a ton of integrity. It’s managed to maintain its soul. The programmers are so committed to emerging filmmakers and independent filmmaking. It’s fantastic, but it can also be hell. This many people from Hollywood jammed together on a snowbound street might be some people’s version of a nightmare,” she says with a mischievous smile. Read the full story

Splice

We get more images from Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley’s genetic experiment, including another peek at the transgenic fruit of their labor. [ShockTillYouDrop]

Splice has been announced as part of the line-up at Sundance this January. It will show as part of the Midnight program that focuses on horror and extreme comedies. Director Vincenzo Natali has agreed to do a series of blog entries for twitchfilm.com documenting his and the film’s Sundance experience. Check out the first entry.

Also Sundance will be doing a touring program this year that will bring 10 films from this year’s line-up to art houses across the U.S. January 28th. The schedule of films is going to be released within the next week or 2. Hopefully Splice will be included. Some info if interested.

Source: sarahpolleyfanclub