One of my all time favorites.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I'm not exactly certain what to make of this movie. At first it starts out with a bunch of (surprise) college kids on a car trip and then moving out into the woods. Rather than the epic story line that almost always takes place in the woods in movies like this, it instead continues to surmise that the whole affair of being chased by a 'werewolf' is instead just a dream, much like night terrors one has as a kid. The college students, which quickly turn into teenagers with high school drama, start fraternizing about sex, who is getting laid, how it matures a person, and how virgins need to get laid. This is not original of course, and serves as fuel for the fire later on. As always, their fighting and angst is quickly forgotten as the movie transitions into a more common medieval modeled 'brutality' flick. People get attacked, flesh wounds are common (gore is surprisingly absent) and the very nature of the way of God, virginity and chastity is questioned.The movie quickly changes into something else as the girl gets away. She actually sees the light of day along with two of her surviving friends. This is a nice touch to a movie which was otherwise a miserable affair to watch. Not only could the entire church scene have been done away with, but the movie seemed to insist on showing this dreary chapel for the duration of the movie. It would have been good if this movie featured the cast running and then leading up to the scene of her escaping with her friends. The ending of the movie truly is scary – she looks like she is possessed.I do recommend the movie, but be prepared for an otherwise lackluster performance throughout until the latter part of the film.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=2938)

The movie had some good oldschool Jeckyl and Hyde / werewolfy atmosphere, and some good story elements, but the elements I liked the most were left unexplored and undeveloped which means the atmosphere fell flat about halfway through. The girls were very easy on the eyes, but ultimately there was little left keeping me watching by the hour marker, but with 30 minutes left I decided to give the rest a chance.One figures out the movie within the first moments you meet Gavin, so the reveal is pretty droll... the gore and music were very mediocre and no opportunities were taken advantage of, in fact I don't think they even had some syncing action in the film with the music... because everything was flat... The acting was okay, the script thin, but with potential, no decent music score of orchestration, no interesting dialog, and didn't really care much for the characters beyond the physical... so I'd have to say, poor showing:2/10

You know it's one thing to make people believe one thing and then reveal to them that it might be something completely different. Or is it? But anyway, this movie tries to be clever in many respects par the dialogue and character development. It's all been said and done before and one twist or another do not change the fact, that it is poorly realized.Of course, this is low budget, so I'm not gonna talk about the effects (that seem decent enough for a movie like this), but it still could have done with a few rewrites. If you haven't watched Teenagers in peril movies, you might find something here for you, but there are so many other (good) movies out there, that you could be watching instead. I hope the filmmakers can come up with a better one, next time around.

I saw the UK Premier in Manchester. Due to a technical hitch, no dialogue was audible for the opening ten minutes; initially, I hadn't realised that this was accidental - believing it to be an intentional method of creating an eerie tone. Then, the projectionists remedied the problem and started the film over a again: the clunking dialogue destroyed this potential eeriness and any pathos one might have felt for the lead. "Splintered" failed to register in any sense: as a horror film, it wasn't frightening or emotionally resonant; one could not empathise with the protagonists; the acting was average-to-poor; the camera work and cinematography (aside from the closing frame - which looked relatively impressive and summed-up the main character's plight) generally added little; the writer's handling of a sensitive social issue was crass and perfunctory...I can't recommend the film in any sense.