20ft high:

4 Star Review from Filmcritic.com

“Splinter is a nifty example of the horror-movie as thrill ride. Plenty of them come and go, especially at this time of year, and most just meld together as by-the-numbers scream-fests with fill-in-the-blank monsters and stalkers. If luck holds, the low-budget, low profile Splinter will be spared the back bins of genre oblivion. It’s too well-made and far too much fun not to deserve a place in the cult horror-movie canon.”

Splinter made the short list in TIME Magazine

TIME does a little thing where they narrow down your entertainment choices to a “short list” of five top picks. This issue they put Splinter on that list, along side 30 Rock and other things they recommend. 

New York Daily News Review

“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 from New York Daily News.

Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal

I started to pull quotes from Joe Morgenstern’s review of Splinter for the Wall Street Journal, but then I realized that if I pull every cool thing he says about the film, and post it here… that would be copyright infringement plain and simple. 

So here’s just the first paragraph, and there’s three more where that came from. 

“Splinter is a really smart little horror flick. How horrific is it? I’m far from brave, but good at temporary detachment — at the eager restoration of disbelief — and I still had to turn away at several points. How smart is it? When the hero and heroine are having trouble setting up their camping tent in an ancient (and, as it develops, extremely unfriendly) forest, she tells him that ‘it’s like you always say, we have to be smarter than what we’re working against.’ This modest little genre piece is smarter than most of the overproduced and heavily marketed studio fare that’s been filling the multiplexes this fall. 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. In other words, it knows exactly where it belongs and how to be its best self. What a revolutionary concept.”