Slither

[DaForce]

So I went and saw this last night, and I've got to say that I had some fun. Not full price movie ticket fun, but more like bargain matinee, or even video rental type of fun.

While the movie sends up all those B-movie horror genres (zombies, blobs from space, etc.), the funniest moments come from a few of the little throwaway jokes peppered throughout the movie. Then there's the homages. Then there are the homages. Everything from Evil Dead at the beginning, to Night of the Creeps.

Not bad, and better than most of the remake/sequel crap being released in the theaters right now, but if b-movies aren't your thing, then you can wait for this one on video.

Favorite line:

"Well, if I wasn't about to sh!t my pants, I'd find that real fu*king fascinating!"

[DaForce]

Ooo, almost forgot...stay through the credits at the end to see the obvious. :wink:

[Kaeos]

As with most movies, I'm always several months to a year behind.

Slither was no exception. I watched on a plane ride home last night.

Basicaly have to say - ditto to everything Daforce said, nice, cheezy campy, not great but not Critters.

Only one major big time complaint....

I get big sloppy blob girl spilling alien slug babies, I get dude cut in half w/spilled guts, I get melty zombies being absorbed into primary monster man, all this joy among other savory bits...

But I get ZERO boob shots. :headscratch: ......:mad: A movie like this fails if all I ever see is side boob.

[mckracken]

Only one major big time complaint....

I get ZERO boob shots. :headscratch: ......:mad: A movie like this fails if all I ever see is side boob.

I'm failrly sure Nathan Fillion is barechested durring part of his video set tour! LOL!

he looks like riot to work with from the outtakes.
"I'M BILL PARDY!" -Nathan

Jack MacReady: [panicked] We need to find this Grant, and I mean yesterday. Town council's lit a Roman Candle, stuck it up my ass.
Bill Pardy: Jack, your leisure activities ain't my business.
---------
[they are discussing what caused Grant's transformation]
Jack MacReady: It's obvious the bastard's got lyme disease!
Bill Pardy: What?
Jack MacReady: Lyme disease. You touch some deer feces, and then you... eat a sandwich without washin' your hands. You got your lyme disease!
Bill Pardy: And that makes you look like a squid?
---------
[Bill, Margaret and Trevor spot Grant and Starla getting into a car]
Trevor: That's one match I'll never get.
Margaret: [zipping Gina Kid's jacket up] Ain't no mystery. Starla was raised in them shanties off St. Luke, dirt poor. All she ever wanted was to be a lady. Ol' Grant Grant, he's always been made of green.
Trevor: Gold digger, huh?
Bill Pardy: Oh, hell, Margaret! Starla's mother left her, her daddy's a drunk, she was 17 years old. Ol' Grant pulls up in a big ol' Cadillac, house on the hill, *and* college tuition? What would you do?
Margaret: [Lifting a handkerchief to Gina Kid's nose] Blow.
Bill Pardy: Hell, if he had a 'gina, you'd'a married him, too.
Gina Kid: What's a "'gina"?
Bill Pardy: [after an awkward pause] It's a country. You know, where "Ginese" people come from. Learn to eavesdrop better.

[Bark]

As with most movies, I'm always several months to a year behind.

Slither was no exception. I watched on a plane ride home last night.

Basicaly have to say - ditto to everything Daforce said, nice, cheezy campy, not great but not Critters.

Only one major big time complaint....

I get big sloppy blob girl spilling alien slug babies, I get dude cut in half w/spilled guts, I get melty zombies being absorbed into primary monster man, all this joy among other savory bits...

But I get ZERO boob shots. :headscratch: ......:mad: A movie like this fails if all I ever see is side boob.

You should check out Humanoids from the Deep (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080904/).

[Trazalca]

You should check out Humanoids from the Deep (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080904/).

Oh man. I caught that on IFC channel one night during their horror marathon.
The scenes at the county fair were hysterical, they were so bad, you had to
watch just to see how worse it could get. The ending has to be seen to be believed.
Quite horrendous in an cheap 80's kind of way. The fact some screenwriter took the time to write this down at a typewriter back then amazes me. Good bloody camp. :Smirk:

[Bark]

Roger Corman produced it. He's a master. He filmed the original The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0054033/) in two days.

As far as "Humaniods" goes, this tidbit is on IMDB:

As the film was being finished up, producer Roger Corman felt that the picture needed more sex, and ordered scenes shot that showed the "humanoids" attacking - and, of course, ripping the clothes off of - nubile young women. Director 'Barbara Peeters' refused to shoot the scenes, protesting that they were inserted purely to show gratuitous nudity. Corman fired her and hired another director to shoot the additional footage.