Slither

Wow, was I ever disappointed in this. Nothing about this worked for me. Didn’t laugh once. Didn’t even have an amusing snort. Didn’t feel one iota of sympathy for the characters. Didn’t feel an ounce of dread or revulsion from the monsters. I felt nothing here. And I think that’s largely because I don’t think James Gunn understood what an “homage” is. This didn’t take inspiration from B-movie creature features to make something new. It just IS one. It has a better cast and a bigger budget, but at the end of the day, you could put this in a double feature with Giant Spider Invasion or Night Of The Lepus or Them!, and it wouldn’t be out of place. Worse yet, it’s not even an original B-movie monster flick; it’s Night Of The Creeps. Change the location to a backwater rural setting, and that’s Slither. There’s a little more body horror here (stolen liberally from From Beyond), but it’s copy and paste of someone else’s movie. So it not only fails at being an homage, it fails at being different. I’ll at least give credit to the cast, who are all putting everything they got into it, but it isn’t enough. I was already looking at my phone at the 20 minute mark, and it never got even remotely better. I’ve now seen two non-Guardians Gunn movies, and both of them were terrible. Doesn’t give me hope for the DCEU.