Synopsis
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
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Cast
- Nathan FillionBill Pardy
- Michael RookerGrant Grant
- Elizabeth BanksStarla Grant
- Gregg HenryJack MacReady
- Tania SaulnierKylie Strutemyer
- Don ThompsonWally
- Brenda JamesBrenda Gutierrez
- Jennifer CoppingMargaret
- Jenna FischerShelby
- Haig SutherlandTrevor
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
There are times (and plenty of them) when Slither slops over from smart, affectionate homage into unmodulated frat goofiness as Gunn cannibalizes so many horror plots with such high spirits. - 83
The A.V. Club
Though it occasionally dips too deep into a well of redneck humor, Slither cleverly exploits the nervous laughter that fills a theater whenever a horror movie gets too frightening to bear. - 80
Variety
Slither begins briskly, gradually accelerates and eventually achieves a breakneck momentum that makes the wild ride even more exhilarating. - 80
L.A. Weekly
It's the kind of movie that used to be called "trashy good fun," only there's nothing trashy about it: Gunn, who scripted the 2004 "Dawn of the Dead" remake, is clearly punch-drunk with horror-movie love; Slither is, among other things, a freewheeling homage to "The Blob, Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and just about everything by George Romero. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Aside from Henry, Gunn's cast is on a collective wavelength. Banks, whose perkiness carries a slightly demented edge, matches up well with Nathan Fillion, who plays the lovelorn police chief. - 70
Village Voice
Gunn doesn't reinvent the wheel but he does tighten its spokes a bit with some terrifying sequences and a witty, deadpan screenplay, and he leaves the audience hungry--for "Slither 2." - 70
Dallas Observer
Slither is what it is, unapologetically, and unlike Gunn's work on "Dawn of the Dead," it's probably too weird to be a crossover hit. Either you've got worms in your heart or you don't. - 70
The New York Times
While Slither sometimes feels like a monster-mash, what makes it work is how nimbly it slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation.
