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Slither

 
 
happenchance
11:48 / 02.05.06
I watched Slither last night, and I have to say I was completely unprepared for this hilarious gore-fest. It stars the brilliant Serenity mainman Nathan Fillion and is written by James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet, Dawn of the Dead 2004)... highly recommended.

How can you not love a film that has brain slugs, slime and a cow mutilating squid-man?

Anyone else seen this? Your thoughts...
 
 
matthew.
12:22 / 02.05.06
I saw in the theatre, and larvaed it, I mean loved it. The premise is so beautifully simple and cheesy that it works, thanks to, in part, the leads. It's surprisingly scary at parts, especially the end, but mostly funny, which is great. There's nothing better than a horror-comedy, if you ask me. Nathan Fillion plays every other character he's ever played in this movie, sarcastic, deadpan and easily startled. The best bit was when he was saved from the deer by the teenage girl (of the bathtub scene) and he says that when he tells the story, the roles will be reversed. Just great fun, this flick.
 
 
Tamayyurt
12:36 / 02.05.06
Yeah, I loved this movie. I saw it mainly for Nathen, but the whole thing was just great. A nice mix of scary, sick, and funny.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:35 / 02.05.06
Ack! I missed it! And considering my love for Nathan, that's a damn shame. It looked like complete cheesy horror fun. There ain't too many of those these days.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:41 / 03.05.06
Don't forget Elizabeth Banks, who is in this and plays Betty Brant in the Spidey films.

I haven't seen it but I'm really looking forward to it. I went to college with several of the Gunn cousins - they're a huge family, like 4 brothers and many cousins, and most or all of them are in showbusiness. James didn't go to my college, though. (I know Brian and Mark Gunn, a writing team who did a big MTV series a while back and are now working on a movie with Steve Carrell - six degrees of The Office since James Gunn is married to The (American) Office's Jenna Fischer)

Apparently James Gunn and Jenna Fischer did a direct-to-video DVD for Tromeo about superheroes (I forget what it's called) that's supposed to be hilarious. I think it's like a one-word title.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
19:23 / 04.05.06
pure genius. consistently funny, but I didn't find it at all scary, which is odd, as pretty much everything scares me nowadays.

did everyone stay until the end of the credits?
 
 
the permuted man
20:52 / 04.05.06
Yessssss! I saw the scene after the credits.

It was funny because there were two other people in the theatre who stayed through all the credits but managed to leave right before the scene, so we (the people I saw it with and myself) bartered the grizzly details for their account of the intro, as we were about a minute late.

Fun movie, I agree. I thought it was a little slow in the beginning, but enjoyable overall.
 
 
uncle retrospective
06:29 / 05.05.06
So what happened at the end then? We left after they walked off into the distance, the house lights came up and we though that was that.
 
 
happenchance
07:15 / 05.05.06
Damn, I knew something was going to happen after the credits. What happens??
 
 
the permuted man
14:13 / 05.05.06
Basically, there's a cat poking around some of the remnants of debris and another alien parasite thing leaps into it.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
14:26 / 07.05.06
Did anyone else feel faintly uneasy with the sexual politics going on (not sure if thats the right phrase) in the film? The whole idea that the town "slut" effectivly gets raped and explodes in a gory explosion after having to give birth the the slugs. Just thought it was a perculiar thing to put into a horror-comedy. Am I possibly reading to much into it?
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:06 / 07.05.06
No, I was just thinking, "Now that's some fucked up shit right there!"
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
16:28 / 07.05.06
Yeah, my exact reaction at the time was that too. But now I'm in the a couple days later thinking back head space, and was wondering if anyone else thought that as well...

...Mission Impossibe 3 meanwhile, has not left me with single thought about that since I left the cinema.
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:35 / 10.12.06
This was fun! I saw the DVD tonight and the actors obviously had a good time and that didn´t hurt the movie at all. It reminded me of Arac Attack alias Eight Legged Freaks, which was also a horror comedy about a small backwater town with an asshole mayor being attacked by giant spiders.

I agree, that it wasn´t scary at all. But the only scary horror movie in the last couple of years for me was Event Horizon. And that was more existential horror than critters horror. Had lots of gore, too, though.

The extras on the DVD are also fun. Nathan Fillion walks around set with a camera and makes them praise him, and the director has a very dirty mouth. And they have a how to make edible movie blood with corn syrup, chocolate and hot water for dummies special and deleted scenes etc.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:25 / 11.12.06
I finally watched this last month. It really was a whole lot of fun. Nathan "Future Ex-Husband" Fillion does a Southern accent so well (there were definite traces of it all through Firefly and as Caleb in BtVS) that sometimes I have difficulty believing he's Canadian.
 
 
GogMickGog
19:56 / 18.01.07

Marvellous, shlocky fun. Loved it - even if Michael Rooker's unnerving similarity to a beefed up Iain Sinclair (in his pre-slug state) did bother this wee psychogeographer.

Serves me right for watching the damn movie on too much cheddar.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
08:32 / 19.01.07
I didn't know that Iain Sinclair had finally attained his slug-form. Good for him.

Watched this on Tuesday night, and enjoyed it, but I think I'd heard too much hype about it being relentlessly fun. It was merely REALLY fun. I'm more disappointed than ever about Filion seeming to suffer from the Whedon Curse: why aren't we seeing him everywhere? He's got impeccable comic timing and can pull off "leading man" without any problems.
 
 
GogMickGog
09:00 / 19.01.07
Absolutely he has - a little more bloating and he'll turn into Peter Ackroyd.

Ahem.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:25 / 19.01.07
My disbelief at my future ex-husband's lack of "leading man" material stymies me as well.

White Noise 2???? Fire your fucking agent, already.
 
  
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