This will have you shaking your head as you follow the lead from the Filmmakers who can't stop shaking the Camera. Why oh why would you go through the effort to Create Creatures and then not let the Audience in on it. Anytime there is a Scene with elevated Suspense and Monster Mania, the Camera seems to have an epileptic fit. It zooms, swirls, shakes, bobs, and is absolutely out of control. The result, not counting nausea and headaches, is that you never ever get a sense, let alone a clear look at what is happening.

It almost makes this "Thing" unwatchable, or enjoyable on any level. It has some stuff going for it and there was no need for the Director to feel so insecure about His Creatures in a Creature Feature. The slim Story and some annoying Characters needed those Monsters to deliver anything more than another anemic amoeba split off from all parasites that came before.

If the Camera would have stood still long enough for some visual thrills and some, any, comprehension of what they were up against (the silly walking hand was not enough),this could have been better than Average. As it stands (there shaking),it becomes just more of the same.

What might of been... If the cameraman wasn't having a seizure during every handheld shot, and the editor had any sense of timing, this could have been a reasonably good horror film. As it stands, if you suffer from motion sickness and get headaches easily then this isn't for you.

In comparison to some of the terrible creature features that the Sci-Fi Channel shows, Splinter is definitely better. It's characters are pretty well rounded and believable and they do sensible things in an attempt to survive the menace.

But, as with many recent productions - every time the action gets going and every time the creature attacks - the camera goes into such chaotic movement that you can't even tell what's going on. I understand in part this may have been necessary to hide some low budget special effects but in this film, it's just way too much. Spinning, zooming, panning shaky-cam and rapid editing just end up frustrating the viewer. The creature concept seems to have taken a inspiration from "The Thing" - in being an organic amalgamation of dead human bodyparts - but I honestly couldn't quite say for sure, because I never caught a glimpse of it that wasn't in blurred motion. Truly a sad way to spoil an otherwise creepy and fun flick.