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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Slither is a movie only true horror buffs can love. Its greatest strength is that it never aspires to be anything more than it is: 96 minutes of good laughs and retro-splatter. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's not Ernst Lubitsch, but the space-slug/mutant-zombie fiesta called Slither has an actual sense of humor to go with its voluminous alien ook. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: What makes Slither work is how nimbly it slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Gross-out horror comedy is my least favorite genre, but this movie's so skillful I have to take my hat off to it. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I'm zombied out. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Slither cleverly exploits the nervous laughter that fills a theater whenever a horror movie gets too frightening to bear. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Slither is an enjoyable stab at spoofing the genre, but it won't send you away feeling completely slimed, which in this context is another word for satisfied. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: At last: the mutant alien redneck zombie movie the world has been waiting for. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Slither is a gross, disgusting, but undeniably amusing treat laden with homages and in-jokes. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Slither is seriocomic horror, alternating laughs with gooey, creepy scares. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Director James Gunn has infused Slither with a wicked sense of parody while still crafting a clever, maniacally paced twist on B-movie slimefests. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A great bloody joy of B-movie madness, Slither is a hilarious concoction of gore and wisecracks that offers plenty of nods to horror history while maintaining enough slimy integrity to stand, or rather, slither, on its own. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: So sue me, sometimes after a day of enjoying Belgian film-festival prizewinners, I like to relax with copious servings of horror-flick slime and a good visual joke involving squids, girls in bathtubs, and overhead cameras. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: I know it's supposed to be silly, but Slither feels more like a scattershot spoof than a fine-tuned piece of entertainment. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: Slither tries (too hard) to cop the tongue-in-cheek silliness that marks some of the best examples of the genre and ultimately collapses atop itself. It's no Humanoids From the Deep. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The most sensationally scary-funny creep-out movie since Gremlins. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: [A] delightfully disgusting comic horror film. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's strictly a fun B-movie horror, on the order of Tremors, that somehow got released by a major studio. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: In a year that is heavily front-loaded with horror movies, Slither is easily the best in the class. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This writing-directing debut from the guy who concocted that rip-off known as Dawn of the Dead isn't that scary, and it isn't nearly as funny as he seems to think it is. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Slither starts out slowly; the first half-hour drags. Things pick up, however, and once Slither slides in its groove, the movie crackles with campy energy. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is some humor in the plot, effective action and scenes that entertain us because of how stupidly the characters behave. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Slither is a labor of love made by a horror aficionado who knows just when to tweak the tropes. Read more
Josh Levin, Slate: There's something winning about this grab bag of orally fixated invertebrates and mucus-covered Noids. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: There is a huge amount of bloodshed, but it's so comically tongue-in-cheek that it's hard to take offense -- it's more gross than gory. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Because it's neither high-falutin' nor hateful, it's the most entertaining horror movie in years. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The problem with making a smart horror parody -- and James Gunn's Slither is a smart horror parody -- is that it's kind of like doing a virtuoso performance of 'My Way.' The skill of execution tends to be eclipsed by the tedium of the material. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: For those who enjoy entertaining gross-out horror flicks, Slither satisfies. The squeamish should probably keep their distance. Read more
Matt Singer, Village Voice: Gunn doesn't reinvent the wheel but he does tighten its spokes a bit with some terrifying sequences and a witty, deadpan screenplay. Read more
Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post: Slither isn't scary, it's just what one character says when she spots the slugs from outer space, Grooooosss. And we don't mean that in a good way. Read more