Slither

Slither (2006) unravels in a small town where an extraterrestrial contagion transforms its inhabitants into ravenous zombies and grotesque mutants. Director James Gunn’s irreverent horror-comedy skewers small-town clichés while celebrating the pulpy excess of B-movie tradition. The film is a delirious carnival of gore and dark humor, where the alien parasite M Grill manipulates human hosts to indulge in their basest desires. As Sheriff Buck Carson and his beleaguered deputy confront the encroaching monstrosities, Slither revels in its outrageous set pieces and grotesque visual humor, cementing Gunn’s reputation for genre subversion.