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April 27 2006

The BBC review Slither. "Imagine for a minute that David Cronenberg, in the days before he got boring and respectable, had made a film with a young Joss Whedon. Between them, they might have come up with something very much like Slither."

gossi | 19:50 CET | 10 comments total | tags: slither

My Favourite Review Ever.

Lioness | April 27, 20:02 CET

I am so excited about this film. I just found out my local cinema is showing it in their biggest screen. I'll deffinatly be at the first showing tomorrow.

Jona | April 27, 20:17 CET

I noticed this week when I was in London that unlike here in the U.S., Slither is REALLY being marketed there. I saw posters all over every bus and a lot of tube stops, for example. Just as with Serenity, Universal seems to understand much better how to market stuff in the U.K. and not so much here.

chickenbird | April 27, 21:05 CET

chickenbird: maybe Universal believes that there is more of a market here in the UK than in the US (as a percentage of the population, not in actual number of people). Maybe. If so, I have no idea whether that belief would be true or not. The Serenity posters of River in the London Underground were awesome.

dzr | April 27, 21:17 CET

Woo, great review.

Now to go watch the *totally* legal copy I downloaded onto my PC this morning...

UnpluggedCrazy | April 27, 22:17 CET

It is wrong how many disgusting laughs you get out of this movie. It was so campy and fun. A great popcorn movie.

[ edited by Zip-Ity-Do-Da on 2006-04-27 20:47 ]

Zip-Ity-Do-Da | April 27, 22:46 CET

Looking forward to hopefully seeing it in the next couple of days. It seems a fairly quiet weekend as far as new releases go so I guess it might do OK (especially with the bank holiday).

(from what i've seen, Serenity had more TV spots but Slither's had more in the way of posters etc.)

Saje | April 27, 22:55 CET

Damn it, I really hope it shows up on cinemas here in Sweden.

Lucidmind | April 27, 23:08 CET

It opened in France the other day, but did pretty bad.

There's been a fair amount of advertising in the UK for it. The TV adverts also have reviews on them ("4 star - Empire").

Universal aren't releasing it in the UK, which is an exception to the rest of the world. Entertainment have it, and I can personally testify they loved it, and tend to go all out with horror here.

If it sells... Well, we'll know on Monday!

gossi | April 27, 23:38 CET

Nice review - I saw it a few weeks ago (Canada) and I really enjoyed it. I say this as one who does not normally watch horror. However, with all the references to humour and Nathan as a lead softened me up ... I am very glad I took the initiative to see it.

So - to all those who do not normally see horror movies - give this one a try - it is well worth it.

coolpeace | April 28, 01:25 CET

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