A meteor crash lands in the small town of Wheelsy, USA. Nobody really seems to notice, but everybody is about to wish they had. When Grant has a fight with his wife, Starla, he mopes off to the bar to have a drink and runs in to Brenda, the younger sister of his former girlfriend, who turns out to have a crush on him. The two of them drunkenly stumble into the woods, but Grant decides against cheating on his wife. He is about to head home when he notices something strange. A sort of slimy, egg-like, object is lying in the grass nearby. He pokes it with a stick and is hit by a projectile which shoots from the egg. Grant rushes home, unaware that he is now host to a bizarre alien life form.
With Brenda, Grant spawns hordes of nasty worm-like parasites which take over the bodies of their victims, turning them into flesh-starved zombies. Local sheriff Bill Pardy teams up with Starla in a race against time to save humanity from a very unpleasant fate.
Slither has something for just about everyone. You've got monsters, aliens, AND zombies. It's a sci-fi film, a horror movie, and definitely a dark comedy. It's a truly bizarre and gruesome tale of alien invasion. But the alien life form is sort of a parasite or "conscious disease" as they call it in the movie, which takes over the bodies of humans and animals and turns them into zombies with an unquenchable hunger for meat. The final stage of Grant's transformation into a sort of tentacled meat blob is particularly disgusting.
The movie also has a few other neat little surprises. For one thing there's a zombie deer, which is a first for me. I wondered for a moment if vegans wrote this movie. Jenna Fischer plays a supporting role as a secretary (surprise surprise) who turns into a zombie. Rob Zombie even has a cameo although only as a voice actor. All in all a pretty decent movie.
3.5 cases of lime disease out of 5
Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, and language.
Watch the Slither trailer.
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