That Night, After Deer Cheer...

Slither
(2006)


Oh, man is was so gross, it was great.

After something lands in their woods, a little hick town gets overrun by the slug-like spawn of an alien parasite. Really, that's pretty much the plot...and yet still it was more awesome than the last three movies I watched.

After he has a fight with his wife, a man goes out drinking, ends up in the woods and decides to follow a trail of slime. The obvious happens. The next day, his wife makes up with him - probably a new experience for the parasite, which becomes obsessed with her. By extension, all his slug-clones are also obsessed. Just what every girl wants.

Nathan Fillion plays the sheriff, who's carrying a torch for the wife of the parasite's host. Grant, the husband has been putting the munch of the neighborhood pets and kidnaps some tramp. A search party, including the wife and sheriff, track the mutated, pet stealing husband to a barn in the woods, but are too late to stop his plan. After that, they must fight off acid-spitting slug-zombies to get to a solution.

Okay, yeah, it ain't deep, but I loved it. Reminds me of Night of the Creeps.

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