Movie Review: Splinter

Get down with the sickness

What would be a schlocky rip-off of John Carpenter's The Thing is saved by two things:

1. great monster effects
2. hands-down the most disturbing, have-to-go-have-a-cigarette-now amputation scene EVER! (it involves a dull box cutter and a cinder block)
   

I squirmed and felt ill. The monster scared me a bit. Way to go, dumb, derivative, low-budget horror movie!