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2006 |
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BLACK COMEDY
MONSTER
HORROR
SCIENCE FICTION
COMEDY
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US |
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C |
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95 |
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Moderately entertaining horror spoof.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Slither is a campy horror spoof by James Gunn, who brought us the recent, enjoyably tongue-in-cheek remake of Dawn of the Dead. It can safely be recommended to anyone who liked that, or the British zombie-movie Shawn of the Dead.
The only actor whom you’re likely to recognize is Michael Rooker (pictured, from Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer). He plays Grant Grant, a loutish Texas businessman who’s just about to cheat on his adorable trophy wife (Elizabeth Banks) when he has an unpleasantly close encounter with an extra-terrestrial slug. Once infected, Grant turns into a giant squid with a taste for putrefying flesh. At first, this doesn’t strike the local police as much of a problem.
“We’ll find Grant,” says one. “There ain’t many places he can hide. Looks like a damn squid. Sea World, maybe.”
But then Grant starts turning the local residents into meat-eating zombies with a lethal line in projectile vomiting. Not nice.
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Don’t attend this movie expecting subtlety. The language is gross, and the special effects deliberately nauseating. But it did make me laugh a few times, and reminded me pleasantly of two underrated horror movies from 1989: Tremors (in which Kevin Bacon was terrorized by giant sandworms) and Society (in which rich people turned out to be monsters from outer space).
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Slither isn’t as witty or sophisticated as either of those, and I kept wishing that it conveyed more in the way of social comment, but as gross-out comic horror it certainly delivers to its youthful target audience.
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