Product Description

Here's a gooey hilarious creepy horror film for the whole mutant cannibal family. Michael Rooker (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) stars as Grant a big bald guy from a small southern town who gets possessed by a meat-hungry parasite worm creature from space. Even under the alien influence he still loves his wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks) but she's alarmed at his weird new habits such as consuming all the local wildlife. The sheriff in town (Nathan Fillion) investigates. He still carries a torch for Starla from when they were kids but once the squirming slithering and cannibalism begin in earnest it becomes clear that this is no time for romance.SLITHER's combination of interesting characters deadpan humor gore aplenty and genuine scares earns it a place alongside cult classics like RE-ANIMATOR and the various LIVING DEAD and EVIL DEAD films. Director/writer James Gunn wrote 2004's DAWN OF THE DEAD before this and it's abundantly clear where his loyalties lie: SLITHER aims its acid-dripping brain-sucking tongue right into the hearts of horror fans. Heads explode monsters squiggle into gaping mouths tentacles wrap around Banks's negligee-clad body and the sheriff takes it all in his stride. There's even a twisted intergalactic love story somewhere in the chaos as well as hordes of in-jokes for the fans.System Requirements:Running Time 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 025192866128 Manufacturer No: 61028661

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3411 in DVD
• Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
• Released on: 2006-10-24
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.com
With laughs and gross-outs aplenty, Slither is the best horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead. Having written for the jubilant trash-mongers at Troma Films before scripting 2004's well-received remake of Dawn of the Dead, writer-director James Gunn crafted this hilarious splatter-fest as an homage to the comically violent horror films of the 1970s and '80s, and he gets it just right with a low-budget look, perfect casting, grisly make-up effects and judicious use of CGI gore. The story's a deliberate monster-mash, borrowing from a dozen other movies with its plot about an invasion of slithery slug-like parasites from outer space, arriving (via meteorite) in the redneck town of Wheelsy, South Carolina, where they turn most of the local yokels into flesh-eating zombies. The first victim (played by Michael Rooker) turns into a squid-like, multi-tentacled host monster (kill him and you kill 'em all), and his terrified wife (Elizabeth Banks) teams up with Wheelsy's sheriff (Nathan Fillion, from Firefly and Serenity) and mayor (comedic scene-stealer Gregg Henry) to eradicate the alien threat before Wheelsy turns into Slugville. Gunn handles comedy and horror with exuberant flair, and Slither's greatest strength is that it never aspires to be anything more than it is: 96 minutes of good laughs and gruesomeness, served up with the kind of gleeful abandon that only true horror buffs can fully appreciate.--Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
It's rednecks versus zombies in James Gunn's delightfully disgusting comic horror film, in which parasites from outer space invade their hosts. Gunn (who wrote the exuberant "Dawn of the Dead" remake) is a true movie nut, with a tongue-in-cheek approach to horror that aspires to "Tremors" and "Rabid" and injects the genre with his own brand of twisty black humor. The film is equally outrageous and sardonic, and the cast, which includes "Firefly" 's great Nathan Fillion, is more than game (literally). Awful fun.
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

A squishy, squirmy good time...
The greatest thing about `Slither' is that it never feels regurgitated or like mere mimicry; as so many other so called horror spoofs do these days. No, `Slither' feels one hundred percent original. Instead of being a blatant movie spoof (ala `Scary Movie') it is more a comedy horror film, infiltrating its inspired plot with enough of its own originality to warrant multiple viewings and ones praise and admiration.

The film is about these alien slug creatures that make their way to earth on an asteroid and infect this town, turning everyone they contact into flesh eating zombies. It starts when a young teachers older husband Grant gets attacked, turning him into this tentacle wielding host slug. After his initial infection the town starts to spiral downhill until there are only a few human survivors staging an all out war against the zombies.

Using the right breed of humor to mix with the right amount of gore, `Slither' manages to be both funny and scary. Sure, its not going to send you to bed with nightmares (unless you are deathly afraid of bugs) but it will send shivers down your spine and give you the creepy crawlies as you sit huddled on your couch. Don't get too comfortable though, since the unending humor and laugh out loud sequences will keep you writhing in laughter.

The actors here all carry their weight well, Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Fillion taking center stage as Grant's young wife and the local sheriff who is vying for her affection. Michael Rooker is effectively slimy as Grant and Gregg Henry (from `The Riches') is hilarious as the mayor Jack MacReady. There is not a moment where I really felt the film could have been improved upon, although I'm sure that it could have been. My best friend just got done telling me that he hated this movie (precisely the inspiration I needed to write this review) and I spent like twenty minutes fighting violently about his warped opinion.

Honestly, some will hate this, I know...but really; why?

In the end I confess that this is a guilty pleasure, but one that you do not need to feel guilty about. It's gory, uncomfortable and gross, not to mention hilariously capable of making that gore totally warranted and acceptable. I fully enjoyed this rompfest from start to finish and hope that you will too.

Gunn, Fillion, Zombies, Slugs, Etc.
Who would have thought that in 2006 that someone could take the cheesy horror vibe involving alien subplots, slimy stuff, and zombies from the 80's and modernize it with enough great actors, story, gore, and wit to satisfy the masses (I'm referring to the horror loving mass and more)? Well, James Gunn successfully accomplished just that with Slither.

The story to Slither is simply that an alien pod crash lands on earth and strangely infects a man. The -whatever- infecting the man begins to gather its army by impregnating a woman (whose "birth" scene is definitely one for the books) and creating an army of "hosts" (this is where the zombie-likes come in) to accomplish its world domination (this plan is seen through flashes of a girl who was almost infected). We are then thrown into all of this through the story of a local cop (played to perfect wit by Nathan Fillion), the wife of the man infected (Elizabeth Banks, you are a beauty), and a teenage girl who watched her family get brutally infected.

Gunn treated us to so many throwbacks that it was almost too pleasurable to view. Slither is very reminiscent of Night of the Creeps, Night of the Comet, The Blob, and so many other alien invasion / hosts horror / comedies from the 80's that the film instantly gives a true feeling of nostalgia. Gunn is obviously a true fan of the genre, and he gives his viewers exactly what they want.

Slither is one of the few horror movies in my list of favorite horror movies that delivered on every single level that I wanted it to deliver on plus more.

The Host With The Most . . . Alien Slugs
"Slither" is great science fiction horror that manages to be both frightening and humorous. "Alien Slugs" would have been a more apt title in lieu of "Slither," which makes one think of snakes. This slick film reminded me of a plethora of science fiction classics ranging from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to "Alien" to "Xtro" to "The Puppet Masters."

A small meteor lands in the woods. A slug-like alien emerges. It attaches itself to the brain of a human host, Grant, which develops an insatiable appetite for meat. Each time it feeds, it mutates until it resembles a nebulous creature (a similar fate befell an astronaut in "The Quatermass Xperiment"). This creature creates more hosts (for producing more slug-like aliens) and it creates zombies that find meat, both animal and human, for the hosts to consume. Soon an entire town is threatened with annihilation. This film contains some scenes that are tense, frightening, and gross. It is also punctuated with redneck comic relief that makes you laugh out loud, thus relieving you of some of the tension.

Kudos to the casting director for picking extras who actually looked like real people who would live in a small, rural town. They could've been in a John Cougar Mellencamp video.

The action was well paced, I laughed aloud at some of the one liners, and I can't complain about the body count - it was very high. Good science fiction theories were provided. The aliens had Collective Thinking; if one saw, they all saw. Many of the zombies acted, spoke, and thought like Grant, which had humorous consequences.

"Slither" is a must see for fans of modern science fiction horror or for fans, like myself, who enjoy all types of horror. If you can withstand the slimy goo and gore, you will enjoy this movie. "Slither" has something for all horror fans.