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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:107
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:28-04-2006
Synopsis: Slither is an edgy blend of heart-stopping terror, wry humor and surprising humanity from genre-bending screenwriter James Gunn, whose Dawn of the Dead became one of 2004's most surprising... [More]
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker
Director: James Gunn
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.
There's something winning about this grab bag of orally fixated invertebrates and mucus-covered Noids.
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.
Tongue-in-cheek yet seriously disgusting, this zombie film isn't perfect. But it is memorable, which can't be said for most of today's assembly-line horror films.
Slither is silly, it's slimy (especially the CGI leeches), and it's awfully derivative, but it's undeniably funny. Bring on the alien invasion.
Like Tremors, only ickier, Slither is a tongue-in-cheek horror flick that skewers the genre while delivering seat-squirming scares.
...the next time you hear Air Supply's 'You're Every Woman in the World' in the dentist's office, you'll be more worried about something other than doctor's fingers sliding their way into your mouth.
Slither turns out to be an improbably good time -- it will go well with popcorn, even better with a couch and a beer.
This writing-directing debut from the guy who concocted that rip-off known as Dawn of the Dead isn't that scary, and it isn't nearly as funny as he seems to think it is.
It's strictly a fun B-movie horror, on the order of Tremors, that somehow got released by a major studio.
If the horror scenes are formulaic, the audience will eat up the many jokey interludes the way the zombies feast on possum.
In a year that is heavily front-loaded with horror movies, Slither is easily the best in the class.
Slither does not quite operate at the sublime, creepy/comic level of [writer/director] Gunn's inspirations such as Re-Animator and The Brood.
Slither is the equivalent of an emotional workout. It will have you squirming, screaming, jumping, chortling, howling and groaning.
A hilariously gonzo, self-referential neo-Body Snatchers that takes the mickey out of the alien-monster genre the way Scream did slasher films.
[T]he deeply astonishing thing about Slither: at the same time that it's making you want to scratch your own skin off, it's also really funny, in a grim black way...
Slither is seriocomic horror, alternating laughs with gooey, creepy scares.
The impregnation scene is part John Hurt in Alien, part Marilyn Chambers in Rabid, part Billy Bob Thornton in Monster's Ball.
A great bloody joy of B-movie madness, Slither is a hilarious concoction of gore and wisecracks that offers plenty of nods to horror history while maintaining enough slimy integrity to stand, or rather, slither, on its own.
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