- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Eiv
- DVD Release Date: 16 Oct 2006
- Run Time: 92 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000HDR7YW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,136 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Well done, Rhinoman, you are the only one who included the link to the original seventies film. The iconic link was there of the girl in the bath from the original, but this time the 'slither' wriggled atop the serface and entered via the mouth. In the original, the 'slither' was either intoduced to the bath by a man in a white coat and it swam underwater, or it came into the bath via the overflow, you can guess the rest. But, this film was rather funny, we laughed at quite a few points. It's romp and well worth renting, as we did. Heartedly recommended, take it as face value, you will enjoy.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This offers nothing new. So many horror, sci-fi and zombie flicks are raided that you'll have a hard time naming every referance that goes zooming by. In particular George A. Romero, 50's invaders films and an ending that is lifted straight from Brian Yuzna's 'Society',.
But these referances are all done tongue in cheek and with a careful eye for detail.
The story is cheesy all the way as small town America gets clobbered by a meteorite carrying a less than friendly alien. Pretty soon it has 'taken over' someone and sent it's slug like offspring off to take over everyone it finds. Before long the local sheriff and a small band of helpers are all thats left to fight the little buggers off.
That's about it really and good job too. This doesn't pretend to be anything other than an homage to all films creepy and sci-fi and to keep the humour going as long as possible. For the most part it manages to keep the viewer entertained throughout as the pace is quick and no scene hangs around for very long,(bit like most of the people we're introduced to!),.
The effects are varied in quality from fine to downright tatty,( one scene of the sheriff fighting a psycho deer is pretty awful), but this doesn't detract any more than it does in those ropey sci-fi films of the 50's.
The real saving grace is the humour as the characters all react with total disbelief to the lunacy going on around them. All the performances are fine.
It's only in the final 15 minutes that it seems the film runs out of ideas and finishes fairly weakly,(wait for the credits to end), and the humour begins to dry up.
All in all though it's a fair attempt and is certainly way better than a lot of the big budget blockbuster tat being served up regularly. At least the writer/ director, ( James Gunn who wrote the re-make of 'dawn of the dead'), presumes you have a brain and know your stuff.
Be warned that funny though this is it still has a lot of gruesome and bloody scenes that are unsuitable to those of a nervous disposition. The language is pretty hairy throughout as well.
The picture is fine, there are a lot of dark scenes and the picture holds up well throughout. So too the surround sound is clear and although the effects channels are not as heavily used as would be liked what's there is well seperated and effective.
But these referances are all done tongue in cheek and with a careful eye for detail.
The story is cheesy all the way as small town America gets clobbered by a meteorite carrying a less than friendly alien. Pretty soon it has 'taken over' someone and sent it's slug like offspring off to take over everyone it finds. Before long the local sheriff and a small band of helpers are all thats left to fight the little buggers off.
That's about it really and good job too. This doesn't pretend to be anything other than an homage to all films creepy and sci-fi and to keep the humour going as long as possible. For the most part it manages to keep the viewer entertained throughout as the pace is quick and no scene hangs around for very long,(bit like most of the people we're introduced to!),.
The effects are varied in quality from fine to downright tatty,( one scene of the sheriff fighting a psycho deer is pretty awful), but this doesn't detract any more than it does in those ropey sci-fi films of the 50's.
The real saving grace is the humour as the characters all react with total disbelief to the lunacy going on around them. All the performances are fine.
It's only in the final 15 minutes that it seems the film runs out of ideas and finishes fairly weakly,(wait for the credits to end), and the humour begins to dry up.
All in all though it's a fair attempt and is certainly way better than a lot of the big budget blockbuster tat being served up regularly. At least the writer/ director, ( James Gunn who wrote the re-make of 'dawn of the dead'), presumes you have a brain and know your stuff.
Be warned that funny though this is it still has a lot of gruesome and bloody scenes that are unsuitable to those of a nervous disposition. The language is pretty hairy throughout as well.
The picture is fine, there are a lot of dark scenes and the picture holds up well throughout. So too the surround sound is clear and although the effects channels are not as heavily used as would be liked what's there is well seperated and effective.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Grab your Slug pellets
Ok, first things first, there's no denying it, this movie is really stupid.
It's often ridiculous, over the top and it's totally brainless. Crucially though, if approached in the right frame of mind of course, James Gunn' (ex of Troma Films and writer of the Dawn of the Dead remake) sci-fi hokum, Slither is jolly good fun.
The out of the way hick town of Wheelsy entertains a parasitic alien invasion, when an asteroid crashes in the backwoods. Things then take a turn for the decidedly slimy, bloody and gory worse when Michael Rooker's ageing town big-shot drunkenly stumbles across the oozing alien and begins to make a teensy bit of an odd transformation.
Comedy Horror has been a little pretentious of late, what with post-modern scare fests like Scream, I Know What You......, Urban Legends et al and the ultra modern, gruesome and gritty interpretations of horror (Hostel, Saw, The Hills Have Eyes remake), it's been a while since a true b-movie in the guise of the 50's double bills and the splatter of the 80's straight to video output has graced the silver screen.
Police Chief Bill Pardy (Serenity's Nathan Fillion) reluctantly sets out to stop the alien horde as the parasitic virus turns the entire crop of local's into Zombie like meat-eaters.
Entrails and appendages make up only one part of Slither's appeal, though. While Michael Rooker's shambling horde takes over the town and increasingly disgusting mutants go on the offensive (watch out for the killer deer!), Gunn underwrites the carnage with a parched sense of humour that provokes barking belly laughs to off-set the offal. A string of artfully delivered one-liners and deftly handled exchanges crackle through the script, the (quite intentional) comedy not only adding substance but hoisting Slither above its schlocky source material.
It's no surprise that the majority of laughs are ably captured by Fillion, showing off the knack for deadpan delivery previously tapped by Joss Whedon in Serenity. As Pardy, he fills out the role of an unlikely hero dealing with extraordinary events, bringing bumbling affability to a part that could so easily have been lost to square jaws, steely eyes and other clumsy stereotypes.
Take Slither too seriously and your missing the point, treat it as an old fashioned dumb but fun slice of entertainment however and your in for a shclocky but funny experience.
Ok, first things first, there's no denying it, this movie is really stupid.
It's often ridiculous, over the top and it's totally brainless. Crucially though, if approached in the right frame of mind of course, James Gunn' (ex of Troma Films and writer of the Dawn of the Dead remake) sci-fi hokum, Slither is jolly good fun.
The out of the way hick town of Wheelsy entertains a parasitic alien invasion, when an asteroid crashes in the backwoods. Things then take a turn for the decidedly slimy, bloody and gory worse when Michael Rooker's ageing town big-shot drunkenly stumbles across the oozing alien and begins to make a teensy bit of an odd transformation.
Comedy Horror has been a little pretentious of late, what with post-modern scare fests like Scream, I Know What You......, Urban Legends et al and the ultra modern, gruesome and gritty interpretations of horror (Hostel, Saw, The Hills Have Eyes remake), it's been a while since a true b-movie in the guise of the 50's double bills and the splatter of the 80's straight to video output has graced the silver screen.
Police Chief Bill Pardy (Serenity's Nathan Fillion) reluctantly sets out to stop the alien horde as the parasitic virus turns the entire crop of local's into Zombie like meat-eaters.
Entrails and appendages make up only one part of Slither's appeal, though. While Michael Rooker's shambling horde takes over the town and increasingly disgusting mutants go on the offensive (watch out for the killer deer!), Gunn underwrites the carnage with a parched sense of humour that provokes barking belly laughs to off-set the offal. A string of artfully delivered one-liners and deftly handled exchanges crackle through the script, the (quite intentional) comedy not only adding substance but hoisting Slither above its schlocky source material.
It's no surprise that the majority of laughs are ably captured by Fillion, showing off the knack for deadpan delivery previously tapped by Joss Whedon in Serenity. As Pardy, he fills out the role of an unlikely hero dealing with extraordinary events, bringing bumbling affability to a part that could so easily have been lost to square jaws, steely eyes and other clumsy stereotypes.
Take Slither too seriously and your missing the point, treat it as an old fashioned dumb but fun slice of entertainment however and your in for a shclocky but funny experience.
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"Just a little bug bite" !!!!
This is an above average 1950s-style creature feature in which the Earth is once more invaded - this time by creepy, slithery alien slugs. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sean T. Page
Great Service
Item was despatched very quickly after purchase and arrived in 5 working days, which is quick and reliable well done. Read more
Published 1 month ago by naomi1
slither :/
this was a horrible film! it was not funny in the slightest, the only comedy comes from having a sick jokes with friends, there is no comedy in this and it is really quiet gross at... Read more
Published 6 months ago by ZoeVengenz
Funny and gruesome big budget small-town horror
Nathan Fillion is the police Chief of Wheelsy, a small American town where the big event of the year is the 'Deer Cheer' party to celebrate hunting season, the Mayor swears at... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Benminx
Fun B-movie homage
Just like The Blob, Slither starts off with a meteor crashing to Earth bringing an alien lifeform along with it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mark G.
by far the worst film i have ever seen
It's a shame that the minimum rating I can give this film is 1 star because it isn't even worth that. Read more
Published 16 months ago by matt hilton
The rural town of Wheelsy, host to all weird and wonderful slimy...
Slither is written and directed by James Gunn and stars Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry & Tania Saulnier. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Spike Owen
The Worm Turns
Always amiable Nathan Fillion heads a solid but underused cast in this comedy zombie horror. There are some nice in-jokes and one-liners here, but overall the film isn't that... Read more
Published 22 months ago by sft
Rubbish!
This is quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen if I could of given no stars I would of, Did not make me laugh once the only thing it did do was make me feel quite nauseous... Read more
Published 23 months ago by C. Meredew
Funny!
This isn't a very serious film, but still kinda gory. Entertaining, best watched with a few friends and perhaps a cold alcoholic beverage. Read more
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