Thanks to the breakage of the TV, I got a little behind in my movie-watchin’. So, I only just now got ’round to Slither, which is probably pretty old news by now.

That’s okay. Old doesn’t mean bad, and Slither? Not bad at all.

This movie is an Alien Invasion/Zombie/Horrific Gorefest of a Comedy, with fairly beautiful effects. It’s what would happen if someone from SciFi got fired for having a good idea, and then, somehow, managed to get a budget. Or at least a month’s worth of free pizzas and two working computers with guys that knew how to run them while they were off filming.

It’s got all the cheese — the asteroid that brings the nasty to Earth, the nasty that starts out in a vagina-lookin’ egg, a bunch of adults that act like kids [okay, maybe that’s more ‘cheese product’, but it’s funny]. And, honestly, the first time I had a problem with anything was when Grant Grant, after getting infected, opened up what I assume was his fridge, said, “Meat.” And proceeded to pull out more meat than I keep in my fridge.

…and it’s really too bad they cut out the part where he then goes off, empties the filing cabinet, and starts labelling folders with, ‘pork’, ‘pastrami’, and ‘olive loaf’, or somesuch nonsense, because that was funny.

Really, the entire movie was funny, but I think that’s how it was meant to be. The good sort of funny that you can rarely ever get when you intend to do it, and has been managed by very few movies [Shaun of the Dead comes to mind].

I recommend it. It’s good, it’s funny, it’s full of blood and ew [I haven’t seen a creepily-large female as creepily-large as the one in this film since DeadAlive, and this one was bigger.] The getting-rid-of-the-monster bit was a bit of a letdown, but hardly anyone blows things up believably anymore. From what I understand, such things are not yet easy to do in the computer. So go rent it or something. Enjoy, and watch for references. There seem to be a few.