Slither (Widescreen Edition) James Gunn Digital Life DVD

Slither (Widescreen Edition)
starring: Michael Rooker, Jenna Fischer, Nathan Fillion, Don Thompson, Elizabeth Banks
directed by: James Gunn

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025192866128
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 17050
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 2006

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Here's a gooey hilarious creepy horror film for the whole mutant cannibal family. Michael Rooker (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) stars as Grant a big bald guy from a small southern town who gets possessed by a meat-hungry parasite worm creature from space. Even under the alien influence he still loves his wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks) but she's alarmed at his weird new habits such as consuming all the local wildlife. The sheriff in town (Nathan Fillion) investigates. He still carries a torch for Starla from when they were kids but once the squirming slithering and cannibalism begin in earnest it becomes clear that this is no time for romance.SLITHER's combination of interesting characters deadpan humor gore aplenty and genuine scares earns it a place alongside cult classics like RE-ANIMATOR and the various LIVING DEAD and EVIL DEAD films. Director/writer James Gunn wrote 2004's DAWN OF THE DEAD before this and it's abundantly clear where his loyalties lie: SLITHER aims its acid-dripping brain-sucking tongue right into the hearts of horror fans. Heads explode monsters squiggle into gaping mouths tentacles wrap around Banks's negligee-clad body and the sheriff takes it all in his stride. There's even a twisted intergalactic love story somewhere in the chaos as well as hordes of in-jokes for the fans.System Requirements:Running Time 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 025192866128 Manufacturer No: 61028661

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With laughs and gross-outs aplenty, Slither is the best horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead. Having written for the jubilant trash-mongers at Troma Films before scripting 2004's well-received remake of Dawn of the Dead, writer-director James Gunn crafted this hilarious splatter-fest as an homage to the comically violent horror films of the 1970s and '80s, and he gets it just right with a low-budget look, perfect casting, grisly make-up effects and judicious use of CGI gore. The story's a deliberate monster-mash, borrowing from a dozen other movies with its plot about an invasion of slithery slug-like parasites from outer space, arriving (via meteorite) in the redneck town of Wheelsy, South Carolina, where they turn most of the local yokels into flesh-eating zombies. The first victim (played by Michael Rooker) turns into a squid-like, multi-tentacled host monster (kill him and you kill 'em all), and his terrified wife (Elizabeth Banks) teams up with Wheelsy's sheriff (Nathan Fillion, from Firefly and Serenity) and mayor (comedic scene-stealer Gregg Henry) to eradicate the alien threat before Wheelsy turns into Slugville. Gunn handles comedy and horror with exuberant flair, and Slither's greatest strength is that it never aspires to be anything more than it is: 96 minutes of good laughs and gruesomeness, served up with the kind of gleeful abandon that only true horror buffs can fully appreciate.--Jeff Shannon

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- A squishy, squirmy good time...
The greatest thing about `Slither' is that it never feels regurgitated or like mere mimicry; as so many other so called horror spoofs do these days. No, `Slither' feels one hundred percent original. Instead of being a blatant movie spoof (ala `Scary Movie') it is more a comedy horror film, infiltrating its inspired plot with enough of its own originality to warrant multiple viewings and ones praise and admiration.

The film is about these alien slug creatures that make their way to earth on an asteroid and infect this town, turning everyone they contact into flesh eating zombies. It starts when a young teachers older husband Grant gets attacked, turning him into this tentacle wielding host slug. After his initial infection the town starts to spiral downhill until there are only a few human survivors staging an all out war against the zombies.

Using the right breed of humor to mix with ... Read More

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- Gunn, Fillion, Zombies, Slugs, Etc.
Who would have thought that in 2006 that someone could take the cheesy horror vibe involving alien subplots, slimy stuff, and zombies from the 80's and modernize it with enough great actors, story, gore, and wit to satisfy the masses (I'm referring to the horror loving mass and more)? Well, James Gunn successfully accomplished just that with Slither.

The story to Slither is simply that an alien pod crash lands on earth and strangely infects a man. The -whatever- infecting the man begins to gather its army by impregnating a woman (whose "birth" scene is definitely one for the books) and creating an army of "hosts" (this is where the zombie-likes come in) to accomplish its world domination (this plan is seen through flashes of a girl who was almost infected). We are then thrown into all of this through the story of a local cop (played to perfect wit by Nathan Fillion), the wife of the man infected (Elizabeth ... Read More

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- The Host With The Most . . . Alien Slugs
"Slither" is great science fiction horror that manages to be both frightening and humorous. "Alien Slugs" would have been a more apt title in lieu of "Slither," which makes one think of snakes. This slick film reminded me of a plethora of science fiction classics ranging from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to "Alien" to "Xtro" to "The Puppet Masters."

A small meteor lands in the woods. A slug-like alien emerges. It attaches itself to the brain of a human host, Grant, which develops an insatiable appetite for meat. Each time it feeds, it mutates until it resembles a nebulous creature (a similar fate befell an astronaut in "The Quatermass Xperiment"). This creature creates more hosts (for producing more slug-like aliens) and it creates zombies that find meat, both animal and human, for the hosts to consume. Soon an entire town is threatened with annihilation. This film contains some scenes that ... Read More

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- Please don't make a sequel!
Taken over by alien flesh eating parasites a whole
town is wiped out by crawly red slugs that belong to a hive mind.
People become just extensions of the main personality ( Grant)
that travels from planet to planet.
The hero and the Grant's earth wife manage to stop the infestation
( for a while). Sort of a cross between different alien movies,
this one is just bloody and gross when it isn't
being slap stick funny.
Don't take you kids to see this one!

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