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    Watched Slither tonight.

    It was corny but enjoyable. Was this supposed to be a remake or was it just a ripoff of night of the creeps?


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    Night Of The Creeps is a classic movie!

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    I know this aint a zombie movie but is there a TYPE of zombie in it at all?

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    Slither was enjoyable, but it was far, far, faaaaarrrr from original. Night of the Creeps and Shivers being the main points of interest for James Gunn & co to rip off - the bath scene being the main gripe for me, Cronenburg did that 30-frickin'-years-ago!!!

    It was a daft kind of movie, but at least it wasn't a remake (despite being rather derivative), so it was okay ... nothing special, moments of laughs and the odd smattering of fun, but I don't think it's worthy of a DVD purchase. It just feels too teenager-pandering and too MTV friendly and too Hollywood, too polished and slick...

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    Well it seemed like a remake of the night of the creeps. I do consider slither a zombie flick in a sorts or a zombie like flick. The people were walking dead i assume but the big difference they were controlled like a puppet.
    I thought it was a funny movie dispite it was a rip off of other movies.

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    Zombies? Hmmm ... I never really thought it was a zombie movie, a mutant movie more like - e.g. Michael Rooker's character. It's all aliens, at best the victims of the slithering bug things are figurative zombies - possessed, controlled by an alien being...can't remember the movie all that well, didn't leave an impression, but if they die after the alien being has evacuated the body and said body remains dead, it still doesn't mean zombies.

    At best, they're figurative zombies.

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    I quite enjoyed it... I'll go out of my way to see anything with Nathan Fillion in
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I quite enjoyed it... I'll go out of my way to see anything with Nathan Fillion in
    You have good taste. Something about Slither you just have to love. It is almost so silly its genius.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Slither was enjoyable, but it was far, far, faaaaarrrr from original. Night of the Creeps and Shivers being the main points of interest for James Gunn & co to rip off - the bath scene being the main gripe for me, Cronenburg did that 30-frickin'-years-ago!!!

    It was a daft kind of movie, but at least it wasn't a remake (despite being rather derivative), so it was okay ... nothing special, moments of laughs and the odd smattering of fun, but I don't think it's worthy of a DVD purchase. It just feels too teenager-pandering and too MTV friendly and too Hollywood, too polished and slick...

    Totally agree

    I thought I read where GUNN had suggested that he had never seen Night of the Ceeps; bull****e

    Total rip off and Creeps was better !

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