 Also comparing the sex scenes to Cronenberg's work, Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that while it has several disgusting scenes, it is "a regulation monster movie" that is "too dumb to be serious and too slow to be entertaining".Richard Roeper panned "Splice", calling it one of the worst movies of 2010.He gave the film a D+ calling it "ridiculous" but giving it credit for trying to be different.