remake
I wonder if this movie is almost a remake of Night of the creeps. Both are horror comedies with little Scifi in them and both deal with alien slugs.
I don't believe it was an official remake but clearly it paid homage.
Night of The Creeps itself is a semi-not-really-but-sort-of-remake which a lot of idiots don't realize when they come on here and cry out against Slither for being a rip-off/remake of NoTC. Not that YOU did that, you didn't, but many have. And they are morons because if one thinks this is a ripoff of NoTC then they would have to think NoTC is a ripoff of Shivers.
NoTC has much more similarities to Shivers than Slither has to NoTC. One of the main characters has the same last name as the director of Shivers, too. Although there are several name references in NoTC. But that one is a big one.
Whoa, I kinda went off there.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
James Gunn has been questioned on this matter before. He claims that he had never even heard of Night of the Creeps prior to directing Slither. I'm not sure if I believe that, being the horror lover that he claims to be.
"Nothing says "OBEY ME" like a severed head on a fence post."