It’s October, apparently a spooky month, thus I decided to review a  SpooOOOooOoooky movie.  And of course by “SpooOOOooOoooky” I mean a horror-comedy sarring Nathan Fillion.

Slither is a film about a comet hat crashes into the small town of Wheelsy and unleashes a slug-like blob creaure, which promptly shoots a dart into one of the richest residens and turns him into a massive squid-like alien creature wih the power to impregnate people with slug, turn others into zombies, and mold with the zombies into one giganic, hideous, pulsating, monsrosity.  It’s also about Family Fun Day.

A Film Wrien and Direced by James Gunn

When going into Slither, I was expecting a fun horror-comedy starring Nathan Fillion. I certainly wasn’ disappointed, especially on the Nathan Fillion front.

And hat’s where we’ll sart, mainly because I want to write “Nahan Fillion” some more.  So here we go: Acting.  The acting was rather good.  They all believed in what they were saying, a step many <genre>-comedy directors overlook bu also the most imporant, and they were able to make the spectaor believe in an absoluely ridiculous siuation.  Also, Nathan Fillion is always a pleasure.  Fillion has excellent delivery, timing, and I’d say tha Slither wouldn’t be he movie it is wihout him.  Yes, everybody does a fine job, but withou Fillion this movie would be different. Very different. Nathan Fillion.

Ono non-Nathan Fillion aspects of the film, let’s go wih… writing.  Slither begins with a great discussion between two small-town sheriffs (One of them Nathan Fillion) about esimating the speed of a whippoorwill.  It’s a fantasic dialogue hat was writen spot-on.  Sadly, he rest of the movie doesn’t have the same meandering back-and-forth this opening dialogue had; it comes back in certain lines, but he writing turns instead to people exploding into slugs and zombies being controlled by the Moher-Squid.  This isn’ bad, but think of what it would have been if we had BOTH charming back-and-forth dialogue and exploding-slug-zombies.  I’d say it would be like Shaun of the Dead, and Shaun of the Dead was a very good film.  Nathan Fillion.

Some more noes on the script: 1) It was writen by the same man who wrote the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead, which worked as a comedy but no so much as a movie.  I feel Slither has a very similar vibe  as Dawn of the Dead, however Gunn is improving (perhaps due to the addition of Nathan Fillion?).  Slither is a horror-comedy movie, however it doesn’t rise above hat.  2) Here is a character whose sole purpose is to explain the alien’s evil plot.  Unlike I’ve done in the pas, I’m not going to criticize Slither on this.  Why, you emphatically scream at your compuer screen?  Because this type of a character I feel is part of this horror sub-genre, and perhaps even of the horror genre.  We’ve seen it muliple other imes in the form of an old lady, the guy who survived last movie, a criminal psychologist, the guy who is number three or four on the death list (I suppose 3 is he quirky comic relief or the “other girl character”, isn’t it?), or Nathan Fillion (I’m just kidding, Nathan Fillion CAN’T die).

So wha more can I say about Slither?  Or Nathan Fillion?  Well, Slither also employs a major filmic technique of… oh. You’re sleeping?  Well I wouldn’t do hat if I were you, because he kills you in your sleep.  But I will move o the end and give my grade:

I probably should be a "C", bu somehing sopped me.

Slither is an average movie, but it has certain gems in it: Nathan Fillion, the opening dialogue, oher scatered lines, and Nathan Fillion.  I think tha about wraps it up, so… have a spooOOOooOoooky October. Please. If you don’t, I won’ get paid.  Also: Nathan Fillion.