SPLINTER
The Story:
Seth and Polly (Paulo Constanzo and Jill Wagner) are a fairly happy couple who are going camping on their anniversary. Seth is not the outdoor type though and convinces Polly that a night in a motel is a better idea. Unfortunately the couple runs into Dennis and Lacey (Shea Wigham and Rachel Krebs). Believing Dennis and Lacey are stranded motorists, Seth and Polly pick them up. To their dismay it turns out Dennis and Lacey are criminals, and the duo takes Seth and Polly hostage.
They drive on together, trading insults and digging through their wallet and purse for valuables until Polly hits an animal in the road and blows a tire. Further investigation reveals that the pulped animal is still moving, which freaks out the already manic Lacey, who had been convinced that it was some animal she owned named ‘Ginger’ to begin with. Polly and Dennis have changed the flat, with Dennis catching a strange splinter in his finger from the punctured tire.
They continue on their journey, with Dennis trying to calm Lacey down, none of the aware that the accident also punctured the radiator, spiked by the spiny projections off the dead animal. The vehicle soon begins to overheat and they pull in at the deserted gas station. Lacey heads to the bathroom for a hit, as she’s still freaking out only to discover the attendant locked in the room, begging her to kill him. The mutation/virus/whatever has taken over most of his body, and he pursues her to the front of the building and attacks her while Dennis and Polly are inside and Seth is gassing up the SUV.
Dennis manages to kill the attendant, but not before he makes short work of Lacey, the three survivors hole up inside the station, but Dennis soon notices that Lacey is still moving when he looks at the security camera feed from outside…
Seth, Polly and Dennis are forced to barricade themselves in the gas station for safety. From there tensions rise as Seth, Polly and Dennis must learn to trust and rely on each other in order to keep the creature out and survive the night
Starring:
Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner, Rachel Kerbs
Directed By:
Toby Wilkins
Release:
2008
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