Storyline
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.
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83
A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment.
80
Variety
A spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare.
80
The result, however clichéd, is spectacularly unnerving: hair-trigger horror.
80
Village Voice
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.
70
Wall Street Journal
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.
