Splinter
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: October 31, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment. Read full review
80
VarietyJohn Anderson
A spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
The result, however clichéd, is spectacularly unnerving: hair-trigger horror. Read full review
80
Village VoiceChuck Wilson
Buoyed by solid ensemble work, some yuckily effective special effects, and a script that subverts genre convention by having its characters do smart things instead of stupid ones (mostly), Splinter earns our respect while delivering 82 minutes of lean, mean fun. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
It's short, taut, nicely shot, well-acted, astutely directed, specific where it might have been generic, original enough to be engrossing and derivative enough to be amusing. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Splinter is no exploitative blood bath or torture horror like the "Saw" movies. It's more of a thriller along the lines of "The Thing" or "Alien." The scares are equal parts psychological jolts and gore. This is classic Halloween fun, with plenty of thrills and chills, surprisingly believable performances, and healthy doses of humor. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
A fan of flash-edited, orientation-challenged, hand-held camera mayhem, Wilkins unfortunately takes the wrong cue from his title and fragments the movie's attack scenes for maximum energy but minimal logical effect. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If "Saw V" offers an example of how little filmmakers can get away with, Splinter proves how much a director can do with next to nothing. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
There's potential for a lot more excitement in Splinter, but Wilkins seems content just to bring it across the finish line. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A diverting if not terribly original on-the-cheap horror film. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
There have been worse horror flicks, but although this one offers a few scares, it doesn't have a lot of imagination. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Splinter is a bad idea, borrowing body parts, as it were, from old horror flicks to genuinely unsatisfying results. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
You come away from Splinter feeling it would have made a far more effective short than the feature-length drag it is. Read full review
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