20ft high:

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.”