Saw Slither, a funny horror movie about an alien/demon/monster slug thing that takes over a small town, leaping into people's mouths and turning them into zombies. The film is humorous but not a comedy. There's moments where you get a rueful chuckle or a 'what the fuck?' kind of laugh. It's never really in doubt who will win in the end, but it's still satisfying to watch and creepy at parts.
For the most part the film is standard horror movie stuff, with incompetent cops and hysterical ladies, but sometimes it slips into inspired strangeness, such as when the zombies start speaking in unison, or when they encounter a zombie deer. There's a Violet Beauregarde-alike which is truly terrible and fascinating to behold. Great stuff!
No film can be all crazy new concepts however, and often we're getting the usual shambling villagers with outstretched arms and screaming women and so on. All of that's played so by-the-book, it almost feels like camp - but that's just the connective tissue to get the real heart and gristle of the film. It's a fairly fun and good movie.
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