Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]Growing up in the 90s as a fan of horror and science fiction movies, some of my favorites were and still are such films as, Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and even, The Faculty (1998)... I thought that these and a lot of the other horror and science fiction (rather it is mainstream or indie) were pretty well made and a lot of fun to watch!
The truth is though is that when the new millennium hit, it seemed to me like filmmakers kind of lost the momentum that they had managed to gain in the late 90s with some truly awful horror and science fiction movies that came out in the first part of the new millennium (I would say that since then though that the quality of the movies in these genres have gotten better and better though.)
The reason that I mention all of this is that I just recently saw an indie B Sci-Fi/Horror movie that was not only a lot of fun, and was well made, but also was a reminder of some the great classic Horror and Science Fiction movies of the 1990s, and that movie is, Slither (2006)!
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A truly fantastic film![/caption]Why was this movie so great? Well first off I wanted to say that this movie has an amazing cast of actors and actresses, including: Nathan Fillion (Serenity), Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games), Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer), Rob Zombie (Halloween), Lloyd Kaufman (Terror Firmer) & Jenna Fischer (The Office).
I also thought that the story was pretty awesome and brilliantly created, in that the movie takes place in a small town, and tells of how after an Alien symbiote queen lands on Earth, a man by the name of Grant Grant (Michael Rooker), while sexually frustrated and about to cheat on his wife, Starla (Elizabeth Banks), ends up in the woods with a younger woman, but after coming across this weird Alien, ends up being infected by the queen and becomes the host!
Now at first everything seems to be normal, but as the new Alien/Grant infects the young woman, and the woman becomes fatter and fatter, weird things begin to happen, (such as dogs, horses, cows and the like disappearing, which brings Chief Bill Pardy (Fillion) to investigate...
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Chief Pardy & his team as they investigate some one who just seemed to be really, 'hungry'...[/caption]But when the woman gives birth to hundreds of these tiny little worms/symbiotes that begin to take over the town, Chief Pardy will have to gather up the last surviving towns people to stop the Grant/Alien from destroying the town and eventually the world!
The other thing that I liked about this movie is the fact that the style in which this movie was made was like an awesome homage to classic 90s Horror/Sci-Fi movies, and that they also gave a kind of fun homage to John Carpenter's, 'The Thing' when they named the mayor, 'Jack Macready' (Played by: Gregg Henry), and that it looks like his store is called, 'R.J. Macready's', (In John Carpenter's, 'The Thing' the lead character's name is, R.J. Macready!)
As a matter of fact, the only thing that I wasn't completely satisfied with, is the fact that this is supposed to be a a Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy... But although this movie has its moments with comedy... It is more just simply awesome then funny!
In the end, I really found this one to be an awfully fun time, and if you check it out you might find the same as well!
http://youtu.be/QfPkYyfCvOU
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she is kicking ass in, 'The Hunger Games' (2012)[/caption]
This, 'Hunger Games' will be a Hunger Games that no one will ever forget![/caption]