Splinter (2008)

Film details

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DirectorToby Wilkins
Year2008
CountryUSA
TypeMovie
Runtime82m
CastCharles Baker, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Shea Whigham, Rachel Kerbs, Laurel Whitsett

Review

"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... 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." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,00011
HIGHEST#3102015
LOWEST#6482026
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

Dashed lines indicate missing ranking data. Select a point to view that year's published list. The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films list was not updated in 2022.

The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED7
HIGHEST#742021
LOWEST#1762026
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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