Susan Hated Literature

Dir & Writ: Jonathan King

• Nathan Meister … Henry Oldfield
• Danielle Mason … Experience
• Peter Feeney … Angus Oldfield
• Tammy Davis … Tucker
• Glenis Levestam … Mrs. Mac

This is the story of Henry Oldfield, son of a prominent sheep farmer in New Zealand, who, following a tragic incident in his childhood, suffers from a fear of sheep. He returns to the farm to sell his share of the family property to his older brother Angus. But while there is discovers the terrible secret… Angus has been experimenting in order to create a new breed of sheep, The Oldfield, but things go a little wrong and before you know it the mutant killer sheep are terrorising the land.

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Dir: Christopher Smith
Writ: Christopher Smith & James Moran

• Danny Dyer - Steve
• Laura Harris - Maggie
• Tim McInnerny - Richard
• Toby Stephens - Harris
• Claudie Blakley - Jill
• Andy Nyman - Gordon
• Babou Ceesay - Billy
• David Gilliam - George

A lot of the marketing around this film is comparing it to Shaun of the Dead, and if you enjoyed that you will Probably enjoy this too. It shares the same sense of humour with a wonderful amount of death and gore.

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Dir & Writ: James Gunn

starring
1. Nathan Fillion - Bill Pardy
2. Elizabeth Banks - Starla Grant
3. Gregg Henry - Jack MacReady
4. Michael Rooker - Grant Grant

I’ll be honest, at first I only wanted to go see Slither in order to support Nathan Fillion. But the trailers made it look entertaining, and the reviews were pretty good, so in the end it wasn’t just [tag]Serenity[/tag] love that made me go.

Slither isn’t going to win any Oscars, it isn’t about any great themes. It is content to be a film about a gross alien invasion with plenty of humour thrown in. And cursing. Plenty of cursing.

Bill Pardy is police chief, or sheriff or something I don’t really know how the US police system works, in a small town. Where his partner checks the speed of birds and the like, disapointed if he is more than two miles out with his guess. Bill has a cruch on local teacher, Starla. But she is married to Grant Grant. The trouble starts when Grant goes out and gets himself infected by an alien parasitic monster thing, that takes over his body and soon attempts to take over the entire town and then the world in its desire for “meat”.

The plot isn’t really that important though. What is important is the blend of gore and humour, and Slither is a perfect example of this sort of film. You’ll be laughing through your disgust. And wondering how a film where every second word seems to be fuck managed to only get a 15A rating.

Nathan Fillion gets to show off how good he is at falling on his face. There are a few pretty girls for the fellas, but mostly this is about the ick-factor.

I think my favourite part was after the slug things attack the police posse and more than a few officers end up unconscious, but alive, and one of the unaffected officers says “Praise be Jesus!” This prompts Mayor Jack MacReady to rant about how far these slugs are from being a reason to praise Jesus. “This shit is about as far from God as shit can get!”

IMDb | Official Site | Grant Grant’s blog | Cinematical

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Dir: Ellory Elkayem
Writ: Ellory Elkayem, Randy Kornfield & Jesse Alexander
David Arquette …. Chris McCormick
Kari Wuhrer …. Sheriff Samantha Parker
Scott Terra …. Mike Parker
Scarlett Johansson …. Ashley Parker
Doug E. Doug …. Harlan Griffith
This was on the telly last night, when it came out, back in 2002, it was one I meant to watch. It looked silly but fun. Well, maybe it’d be better on the big screen with actually giant spiders. but I doubt it. Was crap.

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