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Slither [2006]
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Good Film
Review date: 2008-10-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
Slither is a film that takes ages to get going but once it does, its a brilliant film. A comet falls from space and inside is goo that infects people by jabbing them with its tenticles, and soon an entire town has been infected by the parasite. Only a handful of people, a cop, a teacher, a young girl and the town's mayor are left to kill the first person who got infect as that will kill the parasites. Great film, just beware that it takes ages to get to the point.
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excellent
Review date: 2008-06-06 Rating: 8 out of 10
superb film its great gooey fun and a must watch,i highly recommend this movie cause i really like it so please check it out you wont be dissapointed
watching paint dry is more fun
Review date: 2008-01-23 Rating: 4 out of 10
dont bother with this, it was slow,stupid and the plot made no sense, i didnt even find this funny and its supposed to be a comedy!!!find a better film to watch, but miss this!!
slither!!!!
Review date: 2007-11-24 Rating: 10 out of 10
the film slither is...... well its bloody brillient
it is in my list of top gory film.......... and my list includes silent hill, the hills have eyes, jason X and SLITHER
the shame is that its not that funny in the jokes area but great in the "CRAP DID THAT JUST HAPPEN" section
i am confused that it hasnt reached the 18 classification cos its full of blood
you may not agree with most of my reviews because i am 14/15 years old
watch with friends
A MODERN TAKE ON A 80'S CHEESEFEST
Review date: 2007-10-27 Rating: 6 out of 10
A meteorite crash-lands into the small town of Weesly, and local Grant Grant, (Michael Rooker) comes into contact with it. When his wife Starla, (Elizabeth Banks) begins to notice his strange behavior afterwards, her friend Bill Pardy, (Nathan Fillion) the town's sheriff, begins to investigate and finds that Grant has started to change into a vicious blob, and is turning the town into zombies with slugs that he can impregnate into the victims. With a small band of survivors from previous attacks, including the Mayor Jack MacReady, (Gregg Henry) and Kylie Strutemeyer, (Tania Saulmier) Bill and Starla fight back against the creature before killing off the whole town.
The Good News: This is one of the better horror comedies to come out recently. This one manages to get the mixture right pretty close to what's necessary for the two different elements together. The gore isn't over-the-top, but the idea of what's going on makes it seem like a gore-fest. The one scene which best emphasizes this is the barn. When a hunting group discovers a barn in the countryside, they cautiously go inside and see a victim who's just a ball of enormously stretched flesh with a small head in the middle of it. After several minutes talking, they realize that the size of the ball keeps getting bigger. The skin then begins to split open and the body then explodes in a gruesome mess with all sorts of huge worms then being all over the floor. They end up in several people's mouths while others cover their mouths to prevent that from happening to them. Given what happened, the only gore in the scene is a brief shot of the skin stretching, and it's just a brief glimpse. Otherwise, it's a pretty gore-less scene, and considering what happened, that's a nicely refreshing thing to see. When it does decide to go for the gore, such as when a tentacle whips out and strikes a man, we see a slightly bloody line down his face and neck, with his entire body then splitting apart with his intestines and other organs spilling out in a bloody mess, or all the gunshots to kill the creatures are done, it's appropriately gory. A blown-up head looks quite brutal and gory, and is thankfully done in real make-up rather than CGI, giving them more realism and practicality. The monstrous blob in here is very well-designed, but wouldn't come anywhere close to being as memorable had it been a CGI creature. It has to be live-action for it to give it that feel. There is also a pretty healthy supply of suspense thrown in, with the bathtub sequence a prime example. As one character bathes wearing earphones, various large worms are seen crawling up the house and into the bathroom. One then slithers up the tub and then into it where it then swims toward them on the surface of the water between the legs. At the last moment they see it and scream, while it heads toward their mouth and partially gets inside it. As they struggle to pull it out, there is a long sequence where it continually tries to get inside, and it plays havoc on the viewer. They eventually pull it out and then uses a hot curling iron to fry the worm, but it's a masterpiece of suspense played successfully. The later sequence where the infected zombies trap a character inside a truck and pound on it to get inside is pretty creepy, and the cabin sequence holds some tense moments as well. It's also painfully funny, as the dialog contains some real winners that come out of nowhere and score the laugh. The mayor gets the majority of them, but the rest of the cast get some good ones in as well. The spirit of the film is a nice indicator, since everything here really isn't meant to be taken as really scary and instead is a real loving send-up and can be viewed in those terms. There's a lot to like.
The Bad News: There some problems here that still shine through. The movie spends too much time with jokes and cheesy dialog and misses a lot of opportunities to create some great action scenes. In a movie where the entire sheriff's department and a few civilians are trying to take down zombies who've been taken over and spit out acid goo at people, you would think that there would be a lot of gun play, with exploding heads, gun-shot wounds and more, but it really skimps on any real big gun play scenes, which hurts when you consider how dangerous of an enemy they're dealing with. The pacing is also a little off. The opening is slow going, setting up the later parts of the film, but since it's spelled out early on where everything's going, it's just bidding time until it gets to the good stuff. Granted, when it happens, it's great, but there's a long wait to get there. All the marital drama is a prime example, playing out too long to be of use other than as time padding, and the recurrence of it gets irritating. These would be fine if the film wasn't so homage and spoof-heavy. There's a whole collection of scenes that are tips-of-the-hat to so many different films that it at times doesn't seem like an original film. This is it's main problem, but there are others at work here.
The Final Verdict: With a lot to enjoy about it and very few discouraging remarks, this is a really entertaining film that rarely miss-fires. As the main thing about it is that it's mostly clichéd and slow paced, this can be recommended to all and still find it a lot of fun.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Elizabeth Banks
Don Thompson
Nathan Fillion
Gregg Henry
Michael Rooker
Creators:
Nathan Fillion (Primary Contributor)
Elizabeth Banks (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Entertainment in Video
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
EAN: 5017239193781
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL,
Release date: 2006-10-16
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 95 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Original Language)