{"id":124,"date":"2006-10-25T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/124"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:21:47","slug":"slither-2006-james-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/124","title":{"rendered":"Slither (2006, James Gunn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/slither1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recognized Michael Rooker as monstrously morphing Grant Grant (the TV producer with the dirty handshake in <em>Mallrats<\/em>) but it took me forever to notice that good-cop lead actor Nathan Fillion was the guy from <em>Serenity<\/em>.  Guess it might be time to watch those <em>Firefly<\/em> DVDs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/slither2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rooker gets an alien shot to the chest, impregnates a local girl with thousands of mind-controlling slugs, and morphs quickly into a room-sized ugly mess of alien.  It&#8217;s up to Fillion, Rooker&#8217;s wife and a girl they pick up along the way to save the day.  It&#8217;s a love story!  Hilarious and wonderful throughout, gotta see again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/slither3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katy caught brief glimpses and seemed disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>2025:<\/strong> This holds up.  I still haven&#8217;t watched those <em>Firefly<\/em> DVDs.  Gunn followed up with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7467\">Super<\/a><\/em>, then has made exclusively superhero stuff.  You don&#8217;t see Elizabeth Banks enough.  &#8220;His arm was all bendy, mayor.&#8221;  Forgot that the Zs share a consciousness and projectile-spit acid.  Wondering if police receptionist Shelby (Pam from <em>The Office US<\/em>) is referencing Lucy from <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>, or if the whole concept is referencing <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/408\">Night of the Creeps<\/a><\/em>.  Our birds got very upset when Michael Rooker blew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recognized Michael Rooker as monstrously morphing Grant Grant (the TV producer with the dirty handshake in Mallrats) but it took me forever to notice that good-cop lead actor Nathan Fillion was the guy from Serenity. Guess it might be time to watch those Firefly DVDs. Rooker gets an alien shot to the chest, impregnates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,2637,54,1533],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-body-snatchers","tag-horror","tag-james-gunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18040,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/18040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}