It features a young couple vast in genetic engineering as they experiment and successfully splice animal genes and that of human DNA to create an advanced breed of animals.
While it appears to be a pretty straightforward story, the actual film gives you more in scares and chills - and more to think about - than you'd expect.
This Cronenbergian exploration of the perils of inter-species gene-splicing wrestles with some topical and disturbing ideas, but never quite pins them down.
