Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
5 |
...has a competence to it, an ability to manipulate obligatory horror scenes in a way that works. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
7 |
Throughout, writer/director Gunn took it upon himself to mess with old formulas in sprightly new ways. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
6 |
I hope I'm not giving away too much when I say that if you go out to eat after the movie, you won't be ordering calamari. Or anything else. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
8 |
...both flat-out creepy and darkly funny. |
Reel
Pam Grady |
7 |
...is silly, it's slimy (especially the CGI leeches), and it's awfully derivative, but it's undeniably funny. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
6 |
...what's ultimately disappointing about Gunn's directorial debut isn't that it borders on being plagiaristic--it's that it never quite approximates the charmingly low-budget sloppiness and devil-may-care craziness of the B-movies it seeks to emulate. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
8 |
...Gunn lovingly hacks up the whole horror-comedy genre with the giddily disgusting tale of Wheelsy, a Southern town infested by alien slugs. |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
8 |
...while Slither sometimes feels like a monster-mash, what makes it work is how nimbly it slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation. |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust |
8 |
...a gross, disgusting, but undeniably amusing treat laden with homages and in-jokes. |
People
Leah Rozen |
6 |
...entertains by cheerfully mixing black humor with grotesque scares... |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
9 |
...the most sensationally scary-funny creep-out movie since Gremlins... |
Village Voice
Matt Singer |
7 |
Gunn doesn't reinvent the wheel but he does tighten its spokes a bit with some terrifying sequences and a witty, deadpan screenplay, and he leaves the audience hungry--for Slither 2. |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
8 |
...goofs on the genre with sneaky wit and an infectious will to entertain. |
Christian Science Monitor
Robert Newton |
7 |
...lets the writing do the talking, with us doing the shrieking and most memorably, the laughing. |
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