(2006) dir. James Gunn; 95min.

FRIDAY, February 26th at 7 & 9:30pm

SATURDAY, February 27th at 7 & 9:30pm

SUNDAY, February 28th at 3pm

The slimy little creatures that wiggle into the mouths of the seriously freaked-out characters in the horror film Slither are meant to have originated in space. In truth, these delightfully repellent critters, which look like fast-moving leeches, squirmed out of the brainpan of the film's writer and director, James Gunn, a horror savant who has obviously put in some time with the collected works of both George A. Romero and David Cronenberg. While Slither sometimes feels like a monster-mash, what makes it work is how nimbly it slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation.