American (and now UK) theatres have just been subjected to the release of Splice, a massively hyped film (not least because of a production credit from one Guillermo del Torro) that was plagued by a troublesome development process, and the mainstream press has lauded it as one of the best horror features this year.

The world has been ravaged by a mysterious virus that has destroyed society and transformed the majority of human’s on the planet into blood lusting, flesh eating savage mutants.