A Slithering Film
Managed to see 'Slither' earlier.
It's OK, but it tried to be like 'Tremors' and didn't quite work well. It was basically like that, except with more gore and a lot less humour.
That's the problem, really... There were too many close-ups of mutilated bodies to bring in those who would see it for the comedy (of which there is surprisingly little, considering how it was advertised), yet they didn't do nearly the sorts of things they should have done if they wanted to just make it a horror film. In regards to the latter, it just dropped the ball way too many times.
On the whole, 'The Faculty' did virtually the same thing in a much more entertaining (and even relatively thrilling) way. They were going more for the feel of just showing a few shots of something visually revolting, but the story did not actually doing much with it (where films such as 'Alien' do completely the opposite and are all the better for it).
Come to think of it, 'Eight Legged Freaks' has probably been the best attempt at something like 'Tremors', so far! It didn't do a lot of things it should have, either, but realised it was light-hearted and made no attempt to shy away from that. This other film took itself too seriously at the wrong moments to be as fun as ELF, in my view.
It's OK, but it tried to be like 'Tremors' and didn't quite work well. It was basically like that, except with more gore and a lot less humour.
That's the problem, really... There were too many close-ups of mutilated bodies to bring in those who would see it for the comedy (of which there is surprisingly little, considering how it was advertised), yet they didn't do nearly the sorts of things they should have done if they wanted to just make it a horror film. In regards to the latter, it just dropped the ball way too many times.
On the whole, 'The Faculty' did virtually the same thing in a much more entertaining (and even relatively thrilling) way. They were going more for the feel of just showing a few shots of something visually revolting, but the story did not actually doing much with it (where films such as 'Alien' do completely the opposite and are all the better for it).
Come to think of it, 'Eight Legged Freaks' has probably been the best attempt at something like 'Tremors', so far! It didn't do a lot of things it should have, either, but realised it was light-hearted and made no attempt to shy away from that. This other film took itself too seriously at the wrong moments to be as fun as ELF, in my view.