Slither
2006



Director: James Gunn

Producer(s): Paul Brooks, Eric Newman

Writer: James Gunn

Plot: Slither is a 2006 horror-comedy film by Universal, written and directed by James Gunn. The film stars Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, Tania Saulnier and Jenna Fischer, and was produced by Paul Brooks and Eric Newman. Slither was James Gunn's directorial debut, and borrows from classic alien invasion films such as The Blob, and particularly Night of the Creeps.

SPOILERS

When Grant Grant (Michael Rooker), the wealthiest citizen of small town Wheelsy, South Carolina contracts a strange illness, unusual things begin to happen. Pets go missing, followed by livestock, and finally people, with all of it somehow leading back to Grant. However, Grant isn't feeling too well, given that he has developed an unusually massive appetite for red meat, and has begun to sleep in the basement of his home, away from his wife Starla; portrayed by Elizabeth Banks. Starla is beginning to notice her husband's new unusual behavior, and his physical changes. As Grant slowly transforms into a hideous creature capable of committing any number of gruesome tasks, the town of Wheelsy faces a threat against humanity itself. The town's citizens are gradually being overpowered by an intergalactic alien parasite plague, which is slowly transforming them into bloodthirsty zombies. The zombies are being controlled through a hive mind relationship with the leading monster Grant, and are able to spit organic corrosives. It is up to a select group of survivors led by the town's sheriff Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion), to prevent this once peaceful town from being overrun by the creatures, which loosely resemble slugs. When the heroes realize the zombies can be traced back to Grant, it becomes apparent they need to kill him. In a desperate attack, the survivors manage to blow up the Grant monster, and in turn the zombies become corpses. Lastly, an after-credit sequence shows Grant's remains infecting a cat, hinting towards a continuance of the alien plague.

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