Splinter (2006/I)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Michael D. Olmos

Writers:

Enrique Almeida (writer)
Adrian Cruz (writer)

Release Date:

17 August 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Everyone Dies Dirty

Plot:

A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.

Cast

Tom Sizemore	...	Detective Cunningham
Edward James Olmos	...	Captain Garcia
Ivonne Coll	...	Mom
Enrique Almeida	...	Dreamer
Resmine Atis	...	Detective Gramm
Noel Gugliemi	...	Dusty
Dallas Page	...	Detective Stiles
Delilah Cotto	...	Vanessa
Emilio Rivera	...	Jesse (Veterano)
Adam Rodriguez	...	Private Martinez
Hector Atreyu Ruiz	...	Trigger
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ski Carr	...	Louie garcia
Gary Cruz	...	Lil Nights
Anthony Cuesta	...	Speedy
Kira Elliot	...	Female Officer 1
Ruben Ferrer	...	Paradise Gardens G 2
Billy Garcia	...	Shaggy
Jesse G.	...	Paradise Gardens G 4
Nicholas Gonzalez	...	Detective Diaz
Del Guillen	...	Paradise Gardens G 1
Mark Hall	...	Detective
Nico Hill	...	Detective Scinetti
Rob Hinderstein	...	Detective
Harry Karp	...	Forensics Officer #2
Alejandro Llobet	...	Bartender
Jennifer Lopes	...	Bar Girl
Art Madison	...	Detective
Thaddeus Massey	...	Forensics Expert Petersen
Vinni Ali'i Mesa	...	Smokey
Ramon Molina	...	Termite
Gino Montesinos	...	Gumby
Lisa Moya	...	Female Under Arrest 1
Bridger Nielson	...	Detective
Bodie Olmos	...	Forensics Officer
Mico Olmos	...	Detective
Mario Orozco	...	Happy
Danny Ortiz	...	Casper
Senen Reyes	...	Greenville G (as Sen Dog)
Elizabeth Rivera	...	Gang member
Danny Romo	...	Paradise Gardens G 3
Kim Rouggie	...	Herself
Chris Tongue	...	Officer Hanson
Emiliano Torres	...	Shooter
Brien Varady	...	Detective
Jared Ward	...	Detective

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Splinter Film LLC

Trivia:

This film is produced by a variety of Los Angeles-based community artists, including a team of scholars from comic book production companies Chamber Six and Dark Horse. It is being best compared to the surprising, award-winning graphic-novelization-turned-movie History of Violence (2005) for it's bold sincerity in this industry.

A cool trip through the ghetto. Leave your spinal taps at home.

Lost among millions of Hollywood flicks and translations of life in the barrio, urban thriller fiction and urban friction have never been translated and amalgamated into a digestible and acceptable product until the conception of Splinter. In the footsteps of its successful filmic predecessors "300," "History of Violence," or possibly "From Hell," one might consider this to be another wonderful comic book/graphic novel come to life. However, not quite manufactured into an actual tangible book like its famed literal leaders, Dark Horse Films (Sin City, HellBoy) along with director Michael Olmos give life to an inner-city story that follows the conventions of traditional story telling in movies, but flesh out the skeletal in such a purposeful and personal way as to entrap us in the confusion that binds all of its characters. Entwined in a lysergic and cathartic weave, everyone, actors and audience members alike, will find themselves trying to escape from the volatile streets of Paradise Gardens and Greenville Heights acid-mimetic tirade. Supported by such talents as Sizemore, Olmos, Almeida, Gugliemi, Atis, Rivera, and Cypress Hill, you'll want to bring the homies Dusty, Trigger, and Happy along for the "trip." You betta axe somebody!...