Slither (2006)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 115 | Rotten: 19
A slimy, rotten B-movie homage oozing with affection for low-budget horror films, Slither is a tale of creepy crawly little beasts that invade Smalltown, USA. Equally creepy and funny, critics say it's one of the most enjoyable of its type in years -- if you've got the stomach for this sort of thing. Slither is a wicked good time: it'll make you squirm -- when you're not busting a gut laughing.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 7
A slimy, rotten B-movie homage oozing with affection for low-budget horror films, Slither is a tale of creepy crawly little beasts that invade Smalltown, USA. Equally creepy and funny, critics say it's one of the most enjoyable of its type in years -- if you've got the stomach for this sort of thing. Slither is a wicked good time: it'll make you squirm -- when you're not busting a gut laughing.
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Movie Info
A mysterious meteor infected with a deadly alien plague brings chaos to a small hunting town in the feature-length directorial debut of screenwriter James Gunn (Scooby-Doo, Dawn of the Dead). Booted out of bed by his young, trophy-wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks), and in desperate need of some female companionship, wealthy Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) picks up bar local floozy Brenda (Brenda James) and heads into the woods for a hedonistic night of extramarital excitement. When a flaming meteor
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Elizabeth Banks
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Gregg Henry
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Michael Rooker
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Tania Saulnier
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Brenda James
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All Critics (134) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (120) | Rotten (20) | DVD (28)
Gross-out horror comedy is my least favorite genre, but this movie's so skillful I have to take my hat off to it.
A monstrously funny alien-invasion-zombie-horror-comedy.
Top CriticI'm zombied out.
The problem with making a smart horror parody -- and James Gunn's Slither is a smart horror parody -- is that it's kind of like doing a virtuoso performance of 'My Way.' The skill of execution tends to be eclipsed by the tedium of the material.
Slither is a movie only true horror buffs can love. Its greatest strength is that it never aspires to be anything more than it is: 96 minutes of good laughs and retro-splatter.
Slither is a labor of love made by a horror aficionado who knows just when to tweak the tropes.
Derivative, glib, throwaway, and thoroughly entertaining. A knowing genre movie aimed at fans of Tremors or Lake Placid.
Done with a knowing wink and a nod, Slither doesn't offer much in the way of scares, but makes up for it in laughs and decent banter and a number of well executed gross out moments.
An underappreciated gem that horror fans would appreciate.
Zombies, aliens, comedy, gore, what more can you ask for?
[A] pleasing B-level gore fest.
If there were still drive-in cinemas around, "Slither" would be a perfect B horror movie to sit in your car and watch to the sound of shrieks and one-liner jokes blasting around a hilly parking lot from so many tiny speakers.
It wows us with the expertise way Gunn has in how he handles the creepy hokum and keeps a good balance between the chills and the laughs.
Gunn makes this horror-com his own.
Gunn's film is masses of nostalgic fun if you grew up with body horror of the 1980s. And just plain gross fun if you didn't.
Gross-out comedy-horror mix isn't for kids.
Slither is a monster movie with a wry smile on its face, where (thankfully) the gruesome effects, rather than the humour, tend towards full on gross out.
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 pretty fun movie that makes good on laughs and gory gross-outs.
a minor classic of its genre, at once a spoof and an homage and a wondrous guilty pleasure at both.
Unlike the current concept of over the top bloodletting that thinks the sequence is more important than the sluice, this inspired auteur gets his groovy grue just right.
Audience Reviews for Slither
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- Sheriff Bill Pardy: Well, now, that is some fucked-up shit.
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- Sheriff Bill Pardy: So how's everybody's evening, good? Good.
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- Jack MacReady: [referring to Starla] Bitch is hardcore.
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- Kylie Strutemyer: What are we gonna do now?
- Sheriff Bill Pardy: Probably turn into a couple of these ****ed-up things.
- Kylie Strutemyer: That's kinda negative.
- Sheriff Bill Pardy: Well, it's been that sorta day.
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- Sheriff Bill Pardy: Thanks for saving my ass back there.
- Kylie Strutemyer: You're welcome.
- Sheriff Bill Pardy: Of course, when I tell that story, it's gonna be the other way around.
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- Jack MacReady: If I weren't about to shit in my pants right now, I'd be fuckin' fascinated.
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