YMMV / Slither

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• Awesome Music: The song that plays over the end credits:
  Darlin', I love you, but leave me the fuck alone...
• Cult Classic: Even before James Gunn made it big with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), many people have come to agree the film is criminally underrated.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The temperamental and foul-mouthed Mayor is likely the most popular character in the film.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Hey, Michael Rooker just got impaled by a flying arrow in a James Gunn film! Not to mention that its sequel features an Assimilation Plot... with Rooker as one of the good guys.
  • This wouldn't be the last time Michael Rooker found himself in the thick of a Zombie Apocalypse.
  • This wouldn't be the last James Gunn movie featuring an alien monster with parasite zombies that all die when the monster controlling them is killed. Bonus points for reuniting Michael Rooker, Nathan Fillion, and Mr. Pibb.
  • During the middle third of the film, Grant strongly resembles a newly designed Centaur.
  • This is a film where Nathan Fillion fights a Body Horror-happy alien parasite. In April 2022, the Master Chief Collection port of Halo 3: ODST (which features Fillion as playable character Gunnery Sergeant Buck) had its Firefight mode updated to include the Flood, meaning Fillion's back at it 16 years later.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • Given the fact that both films center around alien slugs that turn people into Parasite Zombies by entering in their mouths, Slither works as a distant remake of Night of the Creeps.
  • The movie can be seen as an adaptation of Resident Evil 4. Both are about a parasite taking control of a small town farm land and both have the main leader have a attraction for the main girl.
• Heartwarming Moments: The way the alien possessing Grant starts to genuinely care about Starla, even falling in love with her despite wanting to take over the world. He stops himself from infecting her while she was in the shower. Later, he apologizes to her through one of the zombies explaining that he never knew love before he came to Earth and was afraid of losing her. When Bill tells her to shoot him, the alien could easily use a tentacle to stop Starla from doing it, but instead of snarling or attacking he only exchanges a final sad look at her showing that he truly cares about her in the end.
• Memetic Badass: According to the wrap-up tape, Bill Pardy ended up as this for the cast and production staff of the film.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The first animal that Grant targets is a pet dog, which barks at him until Grant's silhouette takes over the screen blacking it out as we hear the dog's dying whines in the darkness.
  • Kylie trying to get to her little sisters' room to save them, only to be too late.
  • The look Starla and Grant share before she has to blow him up.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The rest of Bill's posse, who provide some decent lines before being infected a little too quickly and unceremoniously.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: This movie has an under-appreciated great blend of practical effects and CGI.

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