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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment.
- 80VarietyVarietyA spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe result, however clichéd, is spectacularly unnerving: hair-trigger horror.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceBuoyed 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.
- 70Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt'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.
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigSplinter 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.
- 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.
- 58The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThere's potential for a lot more excitement in Splinter, but Wilkins seems content just to bring it across the finish line.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA diverting if not terribly original on-the-cheap horror film.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttSplinter is a bad idea, borrowing body parts, as it were, from old horror flicks to genuinely unsatisfying results.