Slither2006
Slither (2006)
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Critic Consensus: A slimy, B-movie homage oozing with affection for low-budget horror films, Slither is creepy and funny -- if you've got the stomach for it.
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Cast
as Bill Pardy
as Starla Grant
as Jack MacReady
as Grant Grant
as Kylie Strutemyer
as Wally
as Uptight Mom
as Brenda Gutierrez
as Shelby
as Drawing Boy
as Margaret
as Trevor
as Gina Kid
as Karaoke Woman
as Janene
as Butcher
as Lead Singer
as Dr. Karl
as Sad Drunk
as Tourneur
as Charlie
as Dwight
as Emily Strutemyer
as Jenna Strutemyer
as Mr. Strutemyer
as Mrs. Strutemyer
as Fitzgibbon
as Diseased Leader
as Gleeked-on Guy
as Woman in Basement
as Dude Joining Grant
as Diseased Grant No. 1
as Diseased Grant No. 2
as Diseased Grant No. 3
as Brenda's Husband
as Head-Shot Norman
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Critic Reviews for Slither
All Critics (141) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (122) | Rotten (19) | DVD (13)
Slither is a visceral experience from the first, but as the creature grows, so does the film's daring.
Gross-out horror comedy is my least favorite genre, but this movie's so skillful I have to take my hat off to it.
Slither is over-the-top, gross, funny, bizarre and totally weird. In other words, it might be just what you're looking for this weekend.
A monstrously funny alien-invasion-zombie-horror-comedy.
There's enough material in that scene for a whole conference of psychologists, but I couldn't stop to figure it all out. I was too busy laughing.
The film brought me little pleasure, but it revived happy memories of a laidback caper movie also called Slither, starring Peter Boyle and James Caan, made in 1973.
Audience Reviews for Slither
The movie opens with a meteorite landing in the backwoods of the small town of Wheelsy. The bad news is that our atmosphere did not burn up everything inside the meteorite. One of Wheelsy's rich business men, Grant Grant (Michael Rooker), who is married to the young and beautiful high school biology teacher, Starla (Elizabeth Banks), finds a slow moving slimy thing behind the town bar. The slug stops moving as Grant moves closer, he becomes infected by the slug. Grant begins to change and evolve into a bloodthirsty meat-eating squid creature with a need to kill to maintain his life. Sheriff Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion) and Starla must defeat this creature or the entire earth will be consumed. Slither is a 1950's type B-grade horror/comedy movie scenario that has everything. A billion-year-old alien parasite from outer space with penetrating tentacles that sucks the life out of you, fast moving slugs that want to get inside your mouth, dogs and cows being eaten by human and deer zombies, an enormous mother glob, and the small town being terrorized by a monster. This is your classic B-grade movie that is a lot of fun watching. You will laugh from beginning to end. For budget reasons, it looks like they used the old standby, tomato ketchup, for blood. There are some scary moments, but most of the scenes are hilarious. If you want an enjoyable night and a good laugh, this is the movie to see. 5 Stars for Comedy. 5-27-13
Super Reviewer
A fun horror film that is full of gore, disgusting sight gags, and characters that seem fresher and far better constructed than the slasher and possession films streaming out of Hollywood lately. Even for a film that wasn't a success right out the gate, it is still bigger and more impressive than many other films in its genre. For example, this film boasts an impressive cast of semi-famous character actors, including Nathan Fillion (Firefly), Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect), and Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead). The actual genre of the film is subject to argument because it is surely comical in its incredulity, science fiction through its use of alien creatures as the villains, and horror, as these intergalactic slugs take over a backwoods hick town. The town is generic hillbilly fodder, but also strangely wrong and dirty, in a way only schlock can correctly characterize. The story follows the citizens of a town as it starts its yearly deer hunting celebration. A meteor crashes into a section of woods where a drunken miser missteps with an equally drunk floozy, and gets sodomized with an alien prong, which takes his body over. This leads to him becoming a blob, setting his spawn upon the town, and turning people into zombies, all connected to the original, impeded in the brain of the man from the woods. This alien, inside the man, falls for the man's wife, and is constantly trying to capture her as she flees with the town's police. Some of the effects in the film are especially graphic and vulgar in the way they look and are presented. The film melds "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with "Night of the Living Dead", but also features some very gross out scenes of gore for those who love cult horror. It has a little bit of everything and always wins because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Truly one of the better horror films of the decade and one of the smarter ones as well.
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Slither Quotes
| Tourneur: | It looks like something that fell off my dick during the war. |
| Sheriff Bill Pardy: | Well, now, that is some fucked-up shit |
| Sheriff Bill Pardy: | Well, now, that is some fucked-up shit. |
| Sheriff Bill Pardy: | So how's everybody's evening, good? Good. |
| Jack MacReady: | [referring to Starla] Bitch is hardcore. |