{"id":25841,"date":"2017-07-27T04:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25841"},"modified":"2017-07-27T04:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:56:41","slug":"slither-2006-collectors-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/slither-2006-collectors-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Slither (2006): Collector\u2019s Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the outstanding success of James Gunn\u2019s blockbuster films \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy,\u201d it\u2019s the right time to re-visit the roots upon which Gunn established his film career. Gunn is of course a student of Lloyd Kaufman who began his filmmaking career working at Troma, and eventually worked his way up to his first feature film debut in 2006, directing the schlocky and fun \u201cSlither.\u201d Gunn\u2019s 2006 science fiction horror thriller is very much what you would expect from a Troma alumni, as Gunn conjures up cult stars, and builds a premise that\u2019s ridiculous but oddly entertaining. Scream Factory takes it upon themselves to not only deliver a deluxe edition on Blu-Ray (after originally being ported to the now obsolete HD-DVD), but to celebrate everything weird and wild about James Gunn.<\/p>\n

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This new edition doesn\u2019t just act as a tribute to Gunn\u2019s lunacy and wacky concepts, but to the now very successful blockbuster filmmaker and his penchant for originality and bold concepts. Set in a small Southern town named Wheelsy, Michael Rooker plays Grant, a middle aged car dealer who is infected with a parasite after it crashes in to the woods. With the parasite now consuming his body and taking over Grant\u2019s urges, he begins going around town eating small animals, and soon infects a local housewife. As he gradually morphs in to a tentacled monster, she grows in to a morbidly obese incubator for his thousands of slug like offspring. With Sheriff Bill Pardy, and Grant\u2019s wife Starla investigating the apparent phenomenon, they have to rush against time stop Grant, before the slugs consume the whole town and then the world.<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in seeing where Gunn started and how he built a lot of his concepts, \u201cSlither\u201d is an entertaining horror comedy with some gross out fun. Despite the modest budget, Gunn allows for some wonderful and memorably disgusting special effects, both traditional and CGI. There are also a slew of memorable scenes including a slug invasion, a slug horde overtaking a helpless human, and a finale involving human hosts very reminiscent of Brian Yuzna\u2019s \u201cSociety.\u201d Gunn also directs a fine cast including Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks, and Nathan Fillion, all of whom deliver fine performances as Gunn builds on empathetic and engaging protagonists confronting an unusual and extraordinary situation. \u201cSlither\u201d is a fun, and loony bit of cult cinema and it\u2019s a great glimpse at the madness Gunn would instill in even his mainstream cinematic fare.<\/p>\n

The Collector\u2019s Edition comes with a reversible cover art with the original poster and the new great artwork. There are a pair of audio commentaries with James Gunn, Nathan Fillion and Michael Rooker, and another with Gunn, and star Fillion. There\u2019s a thirty minute interview with writer and director James Gunn, who explains how he ended up making the movie, his inspirations for \u201cSlither\u201d which includes manga and Cronenberg, his positive experience working at Troma, and a ton of other more details about the production of \u201cSlither including casting, dialogue, and surrealism. There\u2019s an eight minute interview with co-star Gregg Henry who praises the cast, and Gunn\u2019s tight script. There are seventeen minutes of deleted and extended scenes with optional commentaries by Gunn.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a five minute montage of visual effects footage, and the process of creating them and injecting them in to the film. There\u2019s a four minute set tour with star Nathan Fillion, who takes a camera around talking to Gunn, Elizabeth Banks and various others on the set. \u201cWho is Bill Pardy?\u201d is a five minute outtake reel with Fillion flubbing lines, and the cast mocking him. \u201cThe Sick Minds And Slimy Days Of Slither\u201d is a ten minute standard \u201cMaking Of\u201d with interviews and the like. \u201cBrewing the Blood\u201d is a three minute \u201cHow To\u201d on creating fake blood. \u201cBringing Slither\u2019s Creatures To Life\u201d is an eighteen minute segment about love for physical and prosthetic effects, and the process of the creation for the movie. \u201cLloyd Kaufman\u2019s Video Diary\u201d is a nine minute diary with Lloyd Kaufman who brings us on the journey from the airport to his trip to the set. Finally, there\u2019s an eight minute gag reel, and the HD original theatrical trailer.<\/p>\n