Wednesday, October 13, 2010

October Horror Season 2: Day 13

On Tuesday the 13th we watched Slither starring Nathan Fillion.



Slither is part of a new batch of monster movies with the old-school "small town horror" aesthetic but modern production values, and it was a hell of a lot of fun.

It managed to maintain a certain air of light-hearted fun without actually being funny, the situation and the way everything was put together was just so weirdly amusing on its own the movie didn't feel the need to force some more jokes.  Plus it was absolutely disgusting, especially at the end during the final transformation of the Grant/Alien/Monster/Zombie thing.  Again, not so over-the-top like Dead Alive was.  The monster was also worthy of note since they never really went so far as to define what it was, where it was from (except SPACE), what it wanted to do, or even really how it worked.  So whatever they decided they needed the monster to be capable of, it suddenly was.  But they didn't abuse the mechanic too much so you were never sitting there going "Oh.  Yeah, of course it does THAT now too!  The hell, movie?"

This is probably the best movie of the month so far since it was really fun to watch and well paced but also bloody and gross without becoming ridiculous.

Monster week ends tomorrow with Feast.

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