Give it up for Slither: an entertaining, gory throwback to the good 'ol horror B-movie days. Well, it wasn't as good as Neil Marshall's recent horrorfest The Descent, but what was great about Slither was that it did not linger over some serious stuff but rather painted slick blood on its sometimes-ridiculous kind of horror. In short, they didn't take the film too seriously and let us audience sit back and watch with joyous fun.
Oh yes, it involved such a ridiculous plot, even reminiscent of the horror classic The Blob, where an alien species landed the Earth in the form of a slug, and preternatural chaos ensued. Humans in a tiny little village were infected and it all suddenly felt like Mimic a la People Under The Stairs with the mix of Dawn of the Dead and The Tommyknockers. But I tell you, it was fun watching it, characters getting chased by tremendous slugs and creepy slimy looking people with slugs inside them.
Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Fillion stars as the wife and the police respectively, and both of them stuggled to solve such gory events, giving them the best opportunity to act like in a horror movie where they were so distressed and they suddenly become brave all over and fight all they could. The characters weren't too developed (well, what do you expect in a horror film?) and the plotline were somewhat skittish although you could really tell that it's suppose to be a horror film - but just glad that they paid homage to the old horror classics. It's rare nowadays that we could still see some horror films that would scare us, and make us laugh at the same time for its silliness, and would want us to throw some popcorns in our gaping mouths and spill some soda in it.

Rating: B