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Splinter compares favourably with recent high-profile essays in the 'vicious vegetation' sub-genre (The Ruins, The Happening) and even does what it does with less fuss than The Mist. It coops up a few characters, who come on at first as stereotypes but gain depth as the crisis develops, in a gas station convenience store, at the mercy of splinters which invade human hosts. They twist flesh with bone-breaking nastiness, extruding quill-like splinters and either agglomorate into a many-legged, cannily not-shown-in-detail monster or throw off independent Beast With Five Fingers-like crawling, leaping hands.