INTRO
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This week on FilmSack, we slime, squirm, and slide our way into SLITHER (2006) — the movie that proves love truly conquers all… even intergalactic parasitic worms with a taste for barbecue and small-town gossip. Directed by James Gunn back when he was still practicing on raccoons and tentacles, it’s a gross-out horror-comedy about aliens, rednecks, and marital boundaries that stretch further than Grant Grant’s forehead veins.
Anywho, picture it — you’re out by the shed enjoying a quiet night of beer and bug zappers when your husband comes home looking like a sashimi platter that mated with a squid. He says, “Honey, it’s just a rash,” right before vomiting blood and trying to eat the neighbor’s cow. So naturally, you call the sheriff… who’s also your old high-school flame… because this town’s gene pool is about as deep as a kiddie pool full of worm goo.
Randy, if I ever start growing tentacles and demanding raw meat from the fridge, just do the right thing — hand me a beer and back away slowly.
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BRIEF
When a mysterious meteor crash-lands outside a quiet Southern town, it unleashes a parasitic alien infection that turns residents into slime-covered meat puppets. A local sheriff, his ex-girlfriend, and a very infected husband must stop the spread before the whole world gets swallowed in squirming, grotesque goo.
2006 | Rated R | Horror / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 1h 35m
LINKS
IMDB: Slither (2006)
Wikipedia: Slither Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TV Tropes: TV Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]
TRAILER / CLIPS
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Slither (2006) – The small-town love story that crawled under your skin… literally. #SquidGoals #FilmSack
Alt: Like The Notebook, but with more worms and fewer feelings. #StayMoist
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SHOW NOTES
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- Space! uh oh… that big rock headed towards earth can only mean one thing… Wheelsy..
- Whippoorwill flies about 27 MPH… is that what you thought it would be? A late night whipper-will conversation.
- Small town in South Carolina. I’m feeling a bit attacked right now.
- That’s fascinating… I’m gonna…cap on head.
- Woody chase scene… uh oh… looks like we got a slimy rocks in the woods.
- Good morning mayor…
- Survival of the fittest. Organisms best suited for their environments.
- Congratulations Cooters.
- This is some small town white trash stuff.
- Nipple flip switch… just work one out for yourself.
- I know all there is to know about the crying game.
- Karaoke a no no.
- oh man… creepy creepers.
- Your initials are BM
- Poke it with a stick! .. it pokes back.
- X-Ray vision… I guess that is one way to tell the story.
- Blood from every hole.
- Open the fridge… say meat.. then eat all the meat.
- Roller Baby… All those foamy curlers.
- Do you like my sexy shoulder? You are every woman in the world to me. I do want to be a good wife.
- He is crying because he is in there? Or because the slither is slithering?
- Just a little bug bite… of death!
- Tab… what year was this supposed to take place? Look at those appliances..
- It was like sleeping with a little boy… meat… meat… meat.
- Give me 14 meats… I am having a party. A little surprise for the wife.
- We got a new pad lock for the door… off limits…
- He’s a belly itchier.
- What? These tentacles coming out of my diaphragm? No… Those aren’t new… I’ve had these old things forever.
- Using a thousand dollar weapon to blow the cute face off a dear.
- Oh yeah… that reminds me of something I wanted to tell you.
- Damn Randy, you are chocolate for the eyes.
- Grant Grant.
- The sign says 2005 but the technology says 1990.
- The Mayor is a weirdo…
- Told ya… even that baby knows a tomato is a fruit… nom nom nom
- How much fun it is to shoot a buck or two.
- Have you seen my chest worm?
- Just a bee sting. I’ll be alright. I already saw Dr. Carl… said it should clear up.
- The Cooters.
- Dr Carl might be breaking some HIPPA laws.
- ROSCOE is missing! and he was tasty.
- Randy, I brought you munchies.
- This movie should be called Gross
- Got a key for that door? I got a bat!
- Randy, I didn’t want no one seeing me like this.
- I started a taxidermy in my basement… what… I locked the door.
- I am more slither than man.
- 3 days later.
- His arm was all bendy.
- That makes you look like a squid.
- Wait.. is that how she got the secretary job in the office?
- Put that down numb nuts.
- Time to form a conference.
- Trout fishing grenade… that is going to come back.
- Stop motion squid.
- He looks like something that fell off my dick during the war.
- For better or slither.
- Marriage is portrayed weird in this movie.
- I don’t care what kind of leprosy you got.
- Poor ole bloated Brenda.
- Randy, would you mind handing me a piece of that possum over there.
- Slither Slither everywhere.
- Cover your holes! Don’t let them in your mouth!!
- Uh oh… Mayor… may or may not be exposed.
- What kind of thing wants you to ea it.
- Boy I totally mis-remembered the tub scene… I could have sworn it was our lead actress.
- You get their hive mind… Easy to kill? Hot slither!
- Mom is dead.
- So are lil sisses.
- Tuck and roll that jump.
- Look more like livers than worms.
- and I watch Animal Planet all the time.
- Make Brenda a Womb.
- Kylie is the most believable character in this movie. Everybody else is a cartoon.
- Kyle is the only thing I remembered about this movie.
- “What happened to you Otis.” Poison Ivy? We are itchy.
- What’s with the spitting.
- Starla… Starla..
- There is a skeeter in here driving me bonkers.
- Shelby are you nodding?
- Mr. Pibb is the only Coke I like.
- Outer Space Fucker.
- His real face looks like a needle.
- It’s a conscious disease
- Foxes… When Animals Attack. That is what that scene reminds me of.
- Take Starla back home and get her cleaned up.
- Don’t you look at me like that.
- Don’t you judge me. Damn Republican.
- The mayor got a very specific death scene.
- Waking up Lonely.
- Alien stalker vibe.
- You said for better or worse… you lied.
- Cronenberg wishes he had done it.
- I’ll keep growing until I am everywhere.
- stobbed him in the head
- He’s been around for a billion years.
- Shoot him. Shoot him.
- you need both of those things in you to get all woomby.
- I bet you regret not running off to Hollywood with me now.
- Meanwhile down at the Deer Cheer…
- Universal logo fade – you already know it’s slime-time.
- Michael Rooker gives “midlife crisis” a new epidermal layer.
- Nathan Fillion: master of sarcasm, savior of South Carolina.
- Elizabeth Banks doing her best “why is my husband growing tendrils” acting.
- Grant Grant – the most redundant name in cinema, and the most infected.
- First symptom? An unholy appetite for raw meat and small talk.
- Town meeting scene has 300% more mullets than CDC protocol allows.
- The deer scene… haunting, hilarious, and oddly romantic.
- “He’s just a little infected!” – Every horror-movie spouse ever.
- James Gunn’s pre-Marvel signature: horror + heart + gross practical effects.
- Worms in the bathtub – a sentence that ends every date night ever.
- Body-horror comedy balance: It shouldn’t work, but it slaps (slimily).
- That zombie hive-mind dialogue exchange is pure Gunn DNA.
- Randy, if a slug crawls toward your mouth — don’t just stand there, buddy.
- Final form Grant Grant is a Cronenbergian love machine and I hate that it works.
- Slime, sass, and shotguns – the holy trinity of mid-2000s horror.
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