Slither

Year: 2006

Director: James Gunn

Roku Channel: Vudu (rental)

When school teacher Starla Grant (Elizabeth Banks: Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models) and husband Grant Grant (Michael Rooker:  Guardians of the Galaxy, The Walking Dead) get into a fight, Grant goes off to find excitement of his own. He ends up in the woods with a gal named Brenda, but what he finds is an alien shot to the abdomen. He returns home to Starla where his behavior becomes increasingly bizarre, but it's not until his looks begin to change that Starla really takes notice. He says his swollen head has been caused by a bee sting, but when Starla calls the doctor, she finds out he hasn't even seen Grant as Grant had claimed. 

Police Chief Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion: Castle, Firefly) comes by when Brenda goes missing and Grant was the last person seen entering her home. Starla becomes suspicious and breaks the lock that Grant had placed on the basement door. What she finds isn't Brenda, but something horrifying all the same. Starla calls Chief Pardy and is in the midst of leaving him a message when Grant comes home and attacks her for her betrayal. Chief Pardy rushes in and saves her as she is about to be killed (or worse), and he sees Grants arm is elongated and writhing like a snake. Grant may have escaped, but chief Pardy forms a posse, intent on finding monster Grant before he can use his rope like abdominal protrusions on anyone else. 

The posse uses sightings of Grant's "work" to track him to a nearby farm where they corner him in a field and try to have Starla reason with him. To say Grant has changed is and understatement and after being confronted by a posse member, he flees into the woods. They follow him to a barn where they find Brenda who is.... Swollen.... What's inside her could destroy the entire town or worse. How will Chief Pardy and Starla stop monster Grant and keep this monstrous infection from spreading any further?

*this movie is meant as a sort of homage to the monster movies of the 80's. I love the 80's movies due to their actual non cgi special effects, and that was something I loved about this movie. Also the action starts up pretty quickly and really drew me in without feeling forced. Besides, who doesn't love the idea of Michael Rooker as monster Grant?