YMMV / Splinter

• Funny Moments:
  • Dennis repeatedly calling Polly "firecracker" in a deadpan tone.
  • Polly and Seth have to cut Dennis' arm off because he can't bring himself to do it. Polly tries to comfort him:
    Polly: (trying her best to be casual) It's okay we're just cutting your arm off.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Even after everything he's put the couple through, Seth comforts Dennis as he watches the body of his lover try to break in.
  • Dennis yells for the couple to get in the freezer with him instead of leaving them for dead.
  • After his arm is chopped off, we see Dennis chatting with Polly and Seth casually and letting out his emotional baggage. Polly mentions that they're not dead yet and that she intends to get Dennis to a hospital after they escape.
  • Dennis sacrifices himself to let the couple escape. When they see him dying on the floor, they go back for him and find it hard to leave him behind.
• Jerkass Woobie: Dennis. Despite being an asshole and an escaped convict who, together with his girlfriend and accomplice Lacey, holds a couple hostage it's hard not to feel sorry for him. He loses Lacey to the splinter creature that then tries to attack him leaving him heartbroken. Then, he loses an arm after it became infected by the same creature. Finally, he becomes infected again while trying to keep the creature at bay before sacrificing himself after killing the creature so that the couple can escape.
• Narm: The creature effects are practical and incredibly effective for the most part. But the first scene with the puppet thing that portrays the molded creature in the first scene is not convincing, nor is the shot of the computer animated creature dropping down onto the car (the only time the creature is animated in the entire film).
• Nightmare Fuel: A disgusting, spiked mold abomination that infects any creature and breaks their bones to chase down anything with a heat signature? No thank you.
• The Woobie: Polly and Seth after everything they've been through.

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