Written & Directed by James Gunn
Rated R - 94 Minutes
Released March 31, 2006
I'm still trying to figure out if this film got comedy in my horror, or horror in my comedy. Either way, it worked. The tragedy of a film like this is that it is too graphic to be appreciated by the mass audiences. But who loves a product that wasn't tailored for mass consumption more than me? Anyone? Call me sentimental but Slither had me at "Hello." The cast was great, the sauce was flying, and I was giggling for nearly the entire movie.
The only negative I could muster for this film is that it underscores the sad state that is the contemporary horror genre. There are basically three kinds of horror movies being made these days: the zombie flick, the shocker, and what I like to call the PG-13 crapfest. This movie definitely falls into the first category, while technically not a zombie flick, it has enough similarity that it became difficult to forget that this movie was written and directed by the guy who wrote the Dawn of the Dead remake. Luckily there is more to Slither than watching our heroes escape the mindless hordes.
Slither is a silly and disgusting movie that pulls no punches. On the Mr. Blunderson scale I give it a "Oh Hells Yes."
Thursday, February 1, 2007
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What?!? No shout out to the genius that is Nathan Fillion? No mention of his unrequited love for the heroine? Not one teeny comment about the shade of his eyes? You, sir, are a philistine. A philistine, I tell you!
Did I not say the cast was great? Nathan Fillion was in the cast was he not? Get off my case already!
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