Here's a gooey, hilarious, creepy horror film for the whole mutant cannibal family. Michael Rooker (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) stars as Grant, a big bald guy from a small southern town who gets possessed by a meat-hungry parasite worm creature from space. Even under the alien influence he still loves his wife, Starla (Elizabeth Banks), but she's alarmed at his weird new habits, such as consuming all the local wildlife. The sheriff in town (Nathan Fillion) investigates. He still carries a torch for Starla from when they were kids, but once the squirming, slithering, and cannibalism begin in earnest, it becomes clear that this is no time for romance.

SLITHER's combination of interesting characters, deadpan humor, gore aplenty, and genuine scares earns it a place alongside cult classics like RE-ANIMATOR and the various LIVING DEAD and EVIL DEAD films. Director/writer James Gunn wrote 2004's DAWN OF THE DEAD before this, and it's abundantly clear where his loyalties lie: SLITHER aims its acid-dripping, brain-sucking tongue right into the hearts of horror fans. Heads explode, monsters squiggle into gaping mouths, tentacles wrap around Banks's negligee-clad body, and the sheriff takes it all in his stride. There's even a twisted intergalactic love story somewhere in the chaos, as well as hordes of in-jokes for the fans.

Theatrical Release: March 31, 2006

DVD Features:

Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director James Gunn
Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director James Gunn
Feature Commentary - James Gunn - Director; Nathan Fillion - Actor
Bloopers: Gag Reel
Featurette:
1. Visual Effects: step by Step
2. Slithery Set Tour with Nathan Fillion
3. WHO IS BILL PARDY?
4. THE SICK MIND AND SLIMY DAYS OF SLITHER
5. THE GOREHOUND GRILL: BREWIN' THE BLOOD
6. BRINGING SLITHER'S CREATURES TO LIFE
7. THE KING OF CULT: LLOYD KAUFAMN'S VIDEO DIARY

Nathan Fillion: Actor
Elizabeth Banks: Actress, ROLE MODELS, W. (2008)
Gregg Henry: Actor/"Raising Cain"
Michael Rooker: American Actor
Don Thompson: CLOUDS
Jenna Fischer: American actress

James Gunn: Director/Screenwriter, SLITHER (2005)

Paul Brooks: Producer, WHITE NOISE (2004)
Marc Abraham: 

James Gunn: Director/Screenwriter, SLITHER (2005)

Tyler Bates: Composer

John Axelrad: Editor, SLITHER (2005)

"For those who enjoy entertaining gross-out horror flicks, SLITHER satisfies. The squeamish should probably keep their distance."
3 stars out of 5 -- "[Gunn is] clearly having a riot, slathering SLITHER's monsters with 300 gallons of methylcellulose slime....Great fun..."
3 stars out of 5 -- "[Gunn] happily packs this horror parody with a virtual jukebox of familiar movie references."
"Gunn takes a plot...and has his wicked, gory way with it. You'll love getting slimed."
"Gunn lovingly hacks up the whole horror-comedy genre with the giddily disgusting tale..." -- Grade: B+
"SLITHER is a throwback to the playful, squishy, slightly queasy-making horror films of the 1980s..."
"[Gunn has] raised his game with his debut as a director of features....The horror and gross-out punch lines are leavened by a dry humour."
"[W]hat makes it work is how nimbly it slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation."