Slither

[kybearfuzz]

First, big birthday hugs to the very cuddleworthy clintswan!


Nathan Fillion in the Horror Campfest Slither
After a great night, I decided to take it easy and take in a movie. I made it to the theater in Wilder, KY for a matinee of Slither. I went to the AMC on Friday to see it and had a miserable time with talking brats, so much that I got a refund and a free pass to another movie. Today was much better.

The movie is wonderful, a great campy mix of Alien, Dawn of the Dead, and Sordid Lives. A meteorite lands in a small, rural South Carolina town and it's cargo infects a local who sets forth a chain of events, resulting in slithering slugs that go stalking and infecting the rest of redneckville. The actors are great with Nathan Fillion from Serenity as the town sheriff at his comical best. The scene where the original infected local in full mutated form has his southern belle wife saying that she'll stand by him because "marriage is a sacred bond" is priceless. The movie is shamelessly campy and makes no apology for it. The special effects are very graphic and top notch.

Did I enjoy the movie? Yes, I loved it.
Would I see it again? Twice already, but not opposed to a third.
Buy the DVD? I think so.

Comments

[rixtur.livejournal.com]

Howdy Mark, I forgot to mention in our conversation earlier. Slither is allmost a modern day version of this 1986 cult classic. "Night of the Creeps"

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I remember that movie.. Slither is obviously much better :)

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

Wow - they gave you a refund? What did you do differently?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh it was not pretty. You would have either been very proud or embarrassed by me. I went to the desk and dealt with an adult, instead of the teenagers we've met in the past. He gave the same song and dance routine we've heard before -- "I'm sorry that happened sir..," "We will have the ushers try to be in there more often..," etc., and I was having none of it.

I told him that I paid good money to sit in an R-rated movie only to have kids show up in there and no ushers patrolling. I told him that I've heard the same story before the last three times I was there and that it was getting rediculous. I even pointed out the kids that were causing the noise.

Maybe it was the R rating and the fact that they may have inadvertantly let the kids in that made him hand up the money. Who knows.. but I am writing a letter to AMC about it, it's getting way out of hand these days.

[polomex.livejournal.com]

I used to work in a movie theatre, and I can tell you it had nothing to do with the R-rating. It was simply the fact that you dealt with a manager. If you complain to an usher, there's not much in their power that they can do to shut you up reimburse you. A manager usually keeps a stack of those free movie passes in his pocket just for complainers like you. =)

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

no kidding. When EVERY single movie experience is tainted by conversation, it's really ridiculous.

[susobear.livejournal.com]

Uhm... can't you have guns in the US?
I think that the only good reason to have guns is to be able to defend yourself against those pesters at the cinemas that won't stop talking during the movie, or make weird noises with their popcorn, or simply aren't dead quiet! (The ones that speak on the phone during the movie are a breed apart, I think their genitalia should be removed in order to put an end to their gene pool)
So go get a M16 and be trigger happy.
It would be 2 minutes of anger building,5 seconds of noise and 3 hours of calm.
(Uhm... like male orgasm)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL... I just realized I spelled "ridiculous" wrong.. geez...my spelling is going to pot :(

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

So when you worked for the theatre, did you patrol movies looking for talkers? Just curious what your inspection schedule was like...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. wicked bear!

I dont want the kids dead, just quiet, which I think can be done without bumping them off. Though, I have threatened to take a water pistol full of skunk urine in and dousing the little chatty bitches... hee hee.. I'm in my happy place...

[susobear.livejournal.com]

Well...

You are so sweet to the kids... that's one of the many things on you to love :D

But:

Bear this in mind... if they are alive and soaked in skunk pee, they can still argue and be noisy.

If they had a bullet in their brains they would be able to do nothing, no noise, no arguments.



Susobear... offering effective solutions since 1976

[polomex.livejournal.com]

It depended upon how well staffed we were and how busy the evening was. If I remember correctly, we were supposed to look in on each movie at least twice through its playing time, but this wasn't considered high priority and was easily overlooked if other tasks demanded our attention. The theatre building I worked in had 11 screens, so we didn't have time to babysit. We would stop in for about a minute or so, but we just didn't have the time to stay and wait until something happened.