Too Scary; Didn't Watch - SLITHER with Misha Brown

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

This week we are thrilled to be joined by comedian, Misha Brown (The Big Flop) to discuss 2006's SLITHER, a disgusting af horror-comedy. It's GROSS, y'all!! Pray for us :)Recap begins @ 25:25Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch themselves. I'm Henley, and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy, and I love watching scary movies, and so I watch them so that you don't have to. We are missing Emily today, but she will be back next week. Don't you worry, folks. I'm not worried, but I'm still deeply depressed that she's not here. Yeah, this is it is a sad day. It's so sad. It's so sad. But we're gonna feel

better after talking about a disgusting, crazy horror movie. Are we gonna feel better? Because right before we started recording, you said for me not to feel excited about this episode. So I don't know. Yeah, We're going to have to see how it goes. But before we do, did anything scary happen to you this week, Henley? So I'm, you know, I'm, I'm really just like a one note of one note person these days. I mean, you do have a three week old. And I imagine that takes up a lot of your time. A two year old and a three week old. And so that's why I can barely open my eyes. My eyes are barely open. Truly. I'm so tired. But the thing that's scary is that we all got colds. Everyone got a cold and Sal's got a cold. Tim did. I did. I'm like still stuffed up, stepped up, stopped up, stuffed up.

And it's really kind of stressful for a three week old to get a cold. You don't want that to happen because it can really spiral really quickly. And the thing that I learned that I did not know is that babies can't breathe out of their mouth until they're like three months old. So they only breathe out of their nose for the first few months of their lives. They breathe out of their mouth when they're crying. I feel like there's new baby facts every single day. Like, I just don't know shit about babies. I already had a whole baby.

I already did this process once and I didn't know this. But Silas didn't get sick that this early. And so May has a stopped up nose and it makes it really hard for her to eat. And we've been like doing steamy bathrooms. We do the nose Frida. Anyone who's not familiar with the nose Frida, it's when you literally stick like a tube up your baby's nose and suck all the snot out of it. So we've been doing that a lot. Into your mouth, into your mouth. Obviously it doesn't go into your mouth. Anyway, so the scary thing is just like watching this tiny little newborn baby,

like struggle to breathe. It's so horrible, but I, there's nothing for us to really do until she has a fever and she hasn't had a fever yet. So thank God, knock on wood, as long as that doesn't happen, we don't have to really do anything else. Um, except just like continue with the steamy, steamy showers. I have a humidifier going behind me. Um, Silas is convinced that it's a fire, like a full fire because of the steam that comes off of it. And also I called it a humidifier and fire is in the name. There is fire in that name.

He is scared of it. He is scared of the humidifier. He keeps looking at it and going like, like touch it, like trying not to touch it, like reach his hand out as though he might touch it, but then acting scared and pulling his hand away really fast and go looking at me very seriously and going fire, fire. And I keep going humidifier, humidifier, but it's not connecting, not connecting whatsoever. So our whole family was felled by illness this week. Um, so quickly into having this new child, but, um, you know what we're making through it. We're fine. Everyone's fine. No one's had to go to the hospital. Good. Yeah. As long as we haven't had to go to the hospital, that's what my, that's my marker of success. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I hope you're all on the mend and that is only uphill from here and nobody ever gets sick ever

again. Cause I know the thing about kids is they get sick only once and then never again. And then never again. You know what though, is that if I do get to go back to the hospital, I'll demand my lobster. Oh my God. True. Yeah. You got cheated out of your lobster dinner. Yeah, you're right. Children never get sick. I'm sure this is the last time I'll talk about it and she'll never hear from me again on this topic. Um, Sammy, tell me about you. How was your week? Um, my week was okay. Something's a little scary that we did have a flea situation here. Oh shit. My cats are indoor cats and there's other stray cats in the area that come to the door and taunt them. And I feel like bring little fleas in with them. It's really annoying because it feels unfair that my cats can get fleas when they don't go outside. But anyways, it actually was caught nice and early.

I got them some medicated flea ointment because apparently fleas in Los Angeles and probably other big cities as well, or maybe everywhere, I don't know, have evolved past over the counter flea medication. Oh my God. It's just like UTIs being antibiotic resistant. I mean, what's our future truly? Yeah. It was pretty disgusting. I didn't like to learn that bit of information. Um, but the scariest things happened to me this week was i watched the latest episode of the golden bachelor the women tell all and i sobbed i was like crying basically start to finish i was why devastated and delighted for all sorts of reasons. I cried like all, I went through all of the emotions. There's some that's like, it's devastating to see older people that have had their hearts broken. And, but then it's also so beautiful to see their like friendships that they

made along the way and how much they support each other. And it's really sweet. It feels really pure. The Golden Bachelor feels like... It's really pure. A really spiritual experience. Yeah. But I was like choking on my tears. I was crying so hard and it was just, that's never happened in The Bachelor before. I've cried in The Bachelor before, but not to this extent. This was, I was like, do I have to turn it to do to turn it off like I'm not doing okay but I highly recommend this season of the golden bachelor if you haven't checked it out it's really something special maybe I will watch that I started love island the latest

season the UK latest season and maybe maybe I need like my chaser to Love Island is Golden Bachelor. I love that. Yep. Love Island is so long though. Like so many episodes. I know. Good luck. I know. You're going to run out of Golden Bachelor way before you run out of Love Island. I got nothing but time, time baby i'm trapped in this house with children true do you think it would be inappropriate for me to let my two-year-old watch love island though probably um i think you got to do what you got to do you know mommy's needs come first mommy's needs come first and also imagine if he got a great accent from watching i love a

cheeky chap he starts saying that at preschool he likes he starts getting in fights and telling people that they're mugging him off stop mugging me off are you trying to make a mug out of me that's gonna be Silas. I would love that. Honestly, that would be cool. That would be really great. But as much as we're laughing and having a good time now, we do have some less fun things to get to. I mean, fun, but you know, just brace yourselves because today we are talking about the movie Slither came out in 2006. It was written and directed by James Gunn, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, and Greg Henry. It is available to rent for $3.99. And we have a guest with us today to talk about this batshit crazy movie.

And we're very excited to have him. He is the host of the new podcast, The Big Flop on Wondery. Thank you so much for being here, Misha Brown. Welcome. I'm so excited. Thank you so much for coming on. We're so excited to have you. Did anything scary happen to you this week? I mean, a straight man tried to talk to me this week, which I mean, just kidding. They're not allowed to do that. Why?

No, look at me. No, but oh, you know what did happen this week? Also, it involves pets. I have two dogs and both of them are assholes. And they were out in the backyard and they were being really quiet, which is always not a great sign. So I went out there and I was like, hey, come inside. And I have a Pomsky and he's so freaking smart. And he came in and he was hiding his face from me, which always means like he has something in his mouth he shouldn't have he's like nothing to see here and he goes to the living room

he jumps up on um this little ottoman we have and i can see something sticking out of his mouth and i'm like how he brought like a tree branch or a twig in and he's gonna make a mess but then i see the little tail move out of his mouth and I went up and I was like drop it and he just drops a mouse in my house and it was alive because he's not mean he doesn't have a mean bone in his body so he wasn't gonna kill it just wanted to hold it in his mouth for a little just wanted to make a friend and it just scurries around and we were chasing this mouse around my house for like 40 minutes. But we eventually got him out and set him free into the wilderness.

Oh, my God. 40 minutes is so long. It was like 40 minutes. That's a long chase. Mostly because I was just like screaming like a little, like, tween. You know, Johnny like scooted with a broom. My sophomore year of college, I lived in the basement of a dorm and we had mice and i remember we were so stupid we were sophomore how old are you when you're sophomore in college at 19 20 years old three 19 year old girls trying to get mice out of a

fucking disgusting basement dorm room is so bleak we used i remember we had like cardboard boxes we would try to like corner the mice and get it into the cardboard box i really wish i had that all on video so bad um i mean i think mice are cute but you don't want them in the house no you don't you don't want to be dealing with that you don't want to in the house. No. You don't want to be dealing with that. You don't want to be surprised by a mouse. No. I'm glad the story had a good ending. It did have a happy ending. A happy ending.

And everyone's okay. The mouse is like on a podcast right now being like, something scary did happen to me this week. Something so strange happened to me. I want to listen to that podcast. We're in tiny little headphones. Um, Misha, what are your feelings about horror movies in general? Have you always been a fan? Are you a recent fan? Tell me your history with horror movies. I feel like I have like a, uh, a silly little journey with horror movies. I feel like when I was younger, it was my favorite genre.

I loved being scared. Oh, interesting. I particularly loved, I don't know, like ghost stories, things with jump scares, things like that. And then as I got older, I started, I didn't like them nearly as much. I kind of found them hokey and predictable. And a lot of times the writing and the acting is pretty bad. And since I'm a professional actor, you know, I look at those things. And so I didn't like them nearly as much. But then I started dating my fiance, who is a horror movie freak. I mean, in October, that is the only thing that we play on TV. Yep. Wow. So, I mean, without, I mean, this last October, it was 31 days of just like, we watched all

10 Saw movies like in a row. Wow. You know, like three a night. We'll just like bang them out. And I was like, can we just get like a rom-com in here as like a palate cleanser? That is so much. Are you totally desensitized to torture porn at this point? Absolutely. Absolutely. But I mean, yeah, and it was, it was so much are you totally desensitized to torture porn at this point absolutely absolutely but i mean yeah and it was it was so much and he loves everything like every

kind every genre like so we watch a lot here in this house emily emily who's not here um emily she's not here uh her boyfriend joel just watched all the saw movies i think i feel like i saw him a lot on letterboxd because Saw 10 came out. So I feel like people were trying to go back. I hear a lot of them are really bad. Yep. Do you have any favorite Saw movies? I mean, I feel just because of like how like when it came out, the first one is always going to be my favorite.

Yeah, the first one's the best. I don't think I had seen anything past the second one before. I have not either. I've seen one, two and ten. Yeah. So, I mean, well, you know, it's confusing as, you know, ten is watching the other seven in there doesn't help understand anything. It's a very convoluted story. Do you have a favorite genre of horror movies? I think now mine are more thrillers, I guess. Anything that's psychological or something that could truly happen in real life, home

invasions or that kind of thing. As soon as it gets supernatural or there's some kind of monster that they've created, it just takes me out of it. The lack of, you know, realism kind of takes me out of it. But yeah, so anything that's like a little more psychological, I really like. I will say, also this movie, I do find now also that I've been forced to watch so many horror movies. I really do see that there is a really fine line between comedy and horror. And so I'm appreciating some more of these like B movies and C movies and D movies as we watch them. Actually, you know what I have

been liking recently? I was turned on to it by your podcast, The Blackwell Ghost. Oh, yeah, Roz. ghost oh yeah yeah yeah i just told my fiance about that i was like have you ever um heard of this or seen it and he was like no and i was like all right let's watch it and so we watched like four of them now oh nice yeah because i was gonna say there's a bunch of them as well i want to watch more of them i still have only seen the first one but they're like are are they all like hour long ish? Like not they're quick little guys, right? Yeah.

I feel like the last one was a little bit longer, but, um, but yeah, yeah. But it's kind of nice to like have like a, you know, when you just want a little scare, a short little scary movie. It's great. I mean, I love found footage. That's a real, that's real fly under the radar, like deep cut one. I feel like you are only watching those movies if you're like really you know what's up you're really yeah going through the back of the catalog yeah um i love home invasion stuff too that's my one of my favorites um okay well let's let's get into

slither some facts about slither it has an 87 on rotten tomatoes a 69 on metacritic nice 6.5 on imdb the budget was 15 million it made 12.8 million unfortunately sorry slither but there was a moment where i misread it on Wikipedia as 12.8 trillion. And I was like, oh, how did I not know that this is the most successful movie of all time? Really made me laugh. Some trivia about it. Jenna Fisher is in this movie, Pam from The Office. And at the time she was married to james gunn which i

didn't know whoa what yeah and she wasn't originally cast in the role but the person who was cast uh dropped out because they got a role in a in a pilot and so they needed a last last minute replacement and so jenna fisher got the gig And so Jenna Fisher got the gig. And then because of at the time that this movie came out, the office was really big and she was very famous. And so she actually did a lot of the press for this movie, even though she's a really pretty small character comparatively. I thought that was kind of funny, but they're like, Hey, she's really famous right now. So let's, let's get her out there. Let's get her on the talk shows.

I love the idea of her being in a horror movie at all. I mean, Pam is just the opposite. I know her character. Yeah. And even her persona outside of the office doesn't seem like, it seems so contradictory to a like in crunch. that's crazy her being a horror movie just makes my brain explode it works i mean it's again it's a really small part but this is like horror comedy and so it's yeah it works it works she also was playing a receptionist just like a typecast yes can only do one thing can only do one thing one Can only do one thing. One Null Jenna. That's what they call it in the biz. That's right. That is so, that's so funny.

Wait, so Misha, you'd seen this movie before. Yes, I had seen it before. It was one of the ones we also just watched in October. So when we were like throwing out some ideas, I saw this and I was like, and like I just said, I love the idea of like blending comedy and horror these days. So I was like, this is, this is it. Yeah. I've been waiting for someone to pick this one because I hadn't, I've, I had seen it as well a while ago, probably around 2006 and remembered it being just so wild and crazy and, but didn't really remember any details. and so i've been like looking forward to re-watching it because i remembered having a good time and i did

she also had a good time watching human centipede so i love human centipede so i don't trust anything she says the original title of this movie was wiggle which i think is very funny and the producer was like let's change it to slither it sounds scarier and also you won't have like children accidentally going to see this film god it's my favorite thing when they accidentally play horror trailers in front of like pixar movies i feel like that happens every once in a while where it's like we played the conjuring trailer in front of i don't know up so good uh this piece of trivia is a little upsetting that one of the actresses brenda james suffers from claustrophobia and meat phobia and there is a scene where she's basically

like locked in a little meat closet and so it says the scenes with her and the meat products trapped, trapped in. Oh, she's like, well, I won't spoil it, but we'll, we can point it out when we get there. You'll know the scene that's involves meat and small spaces. Like why did she, why did she sign up for this? She probably didn't know. Her therapist told her to do it just do you remember therapy do you remember those um like daytime talk shows i can't remember if it was more or something it was one of something like those where they would have people with

phobias on and they'd come out and they'd like bring the cotton balls and shove them in their face and be like you gotta see the cotton balls and they'd be screaming oh my god one time they made someone come out in a full cotton ball costume it was so mean and he like chased the woman with the cotton ball phobia but god it's funny it's funny when it's something like cotton balls it's not funny when it's like spiders and they dump a bunch of tarantulas on a person yeah that's true true cotton balls is funnier um and then this piece of trivia i just don't know what the hell this even really is doing here so i had to write it down because it's so strange it's the barn is on the property there's a barn in this film the barn is on a property owned by Buddhist monks who love the matrix.

What? What? I just like don't understand. I'm just really thrown by that one. Yeah. But I'm glad to know it, you know? It's like missing the second half of the sentence. I know.

It's like not a full thought. But it's very funny. And so they agreed to let them film there because they are film buffs. Yeah, right. There should be some additional context there, but it's very funny just out of context. Like these Buddhists love The Matrix. And you love The Matrix too. You guys have so much in common.

I know. I got to go visit these Buddhist monks and we can watch the matrix together sounds fun to me does sound fun um but that's all the trivia i've got uh so shall we take a peek at this trailer yes when you marry someone you promise to love them forever no matter how much they might change right baby what happened to your face? It's just a V-stink. From Universal Pictures. Greatest sink or something? Comes a film so shocking. We got a real problem here.

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oh my god what that looks disgusting it definitely has a lot of like nasty body horror stuff for sure yeah that real quick shot of pam and it looked like she was literally in a pam outfit like she's wearing a cardigan and her hair is exactly the same and she was wearing a receptionist I was like, wow. Wow. Disgusting. Elizabeth Banks. Fascinating lead in this film. Nathan Fillion, but Firefly or something like that. Yes. Firefly. People were obsessed with that. It was like the first show that was canceled that then people really rebelled and were really upset about it. And then they created Serenity. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But I haven't watched any of them, but he's great. I mean, I like him, but I know that there are people out there that are like, Nathan Fillion, we love him.

Which, you know, I get it. And then he was in that show Castle for eight seasons. One of those series that's like, you know, there's so many series like this on TV where there have been like 12 seasons and you're like, what is that show even fucking about? I don't have any and now it's like the most popular show ever. There's no way in hell I would have ever watched any of suits. I mean, I was probably still won't, but it's just like so funny that it's gotten like this resurgence. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. Okay.

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So the movie starts with an asteroid hurling towards Earth. So now we understand where these are coming from. We see a welcome to Wheelsy sign. So that's the town we're in, small town. And we come in to Bill Party, who he's the cop. That's what's the same Fillion? Michael Fillion? Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion.

Nathan Fillion. He plays Bill Party. He's a cop. That's what's the same Fillion, Michael Fillion? Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion, he plays Bill Party. He's a cop. He's in with his little partner and they're just using a little radar gun on a bird. So you can tell it's a small town, not much is going on. And a quick little comedic blurb between the two of them. And now all of a sudden, we have a first person view of us like running through the woods very frantically. And we come upon a piece of the asteroid that has fallen to earth. And it opens up like an egg and we get the title screen, Slither. Oh, shit.

Oh, my God. Oh, shit. Shit. So now, this is one of my favorite things about the movie. I think they do a really great job of being in like in a small podunk town in 2006. So we zoom in on a small town with a sign for the deer cheer. I mean, there are Confederate flags, there's graffiti, everyone is poor. There's a man drinking a beer in broad daylight and he's missing his upper lip there's yeah just just rows of teeth um there's a priest smoking a cigarette um lady

i know a lady zooms by in her electric wheelchair i mean none of the men have seen a bottle of conditioner in decades i mean the hair is thirsty mean, this honestly reminds me of the small town I grew up in. So I really resonate. That's why you love this movie. It's nostalgic. It's nostalgic for me. And then, you know, we have the first little moment and we have this like moment of a profanity filled moment of road rage.

And it cuts to this mom standing on the side with her young son witnessing it. And they just say, hey there, mayor. So we get it. OK, this is going to be funny. So then we meet our leading lady, Starla, played by Elizabeth Banks, in her classroom. She's a teacher. She's a sweet southern belle of a teacher at that.

And she's teaching a bunch of acne-faced teenagers who don't give a shit about her lesson on survival of the fittest. And quickly we cut. It's after school. Starla is talking with a male teacher outside. And then we meet her husband, Grant, played by Michael Rooker. And he rudely drags her away. And we learn that he is the jealous, He rudely drags her away and we learn that he is the jealous, possessive type, a walking red flag. Yeah. Yep. And the guy that she was talking to, the other teacher, by the way, is James Gunn himself.

Was that? Mm-hmm. Oh. And he was just like a nerdy little science teacher or something. Yep. Harmless in this scenario. Yeah. So, and like, what I loved about this also is because thinking about who Elizabeth Banks is now as an actress in this, she's just like so prim and proper and sweet. Yeah.

She's just that like typical leading lady. I love her in this role. Yeah. And then of course, a movie is not a movie without some sort of love story. So we get a forbidden love story. And Bill Party is standing across the street with two other cops. They're looking at Starla and Grant, and he's looking longingly over at Starla. And there's a bunch of dialogue here about people not understanding the coupling of Starla and Grant because she's young and pretty and he's well, I mean, not.

And it also gives us the sense that people think that she's a gold digger and that this is like a, because he's wealthy. And good old boy Bill Party comes to her defense and says that she grew up dirt poor and her mom's an alcoholic. So it's okay that she's a gold digger. Yeah, she deserves it. She deserves it.

Yep. And then there's, you can really tell it's 2006 because there's like this like vagina china joke in there that he makes with a kid and there's like i know that they throw like a r word in there okay of course there's always an r word in a 2006 movie that's par for the course for sure like times have changed um so it's a little jarring but um and then we cut to starla and grant's house at that later that night and it's a nice big old house so he does in fact have the money and grant is watching like alligators or crocodiles or whatever um eat zebras uh it's very violent. And Starla comes to bed with curlers in her hair. And Grant tries to really hard to convince Starla to have sex with

him, but she's not having it. We're really setting up the I'm not super happy in my marriage scenario here. And one of my favorite moments in the movie happens here. She says to Grant, like, come on, Grant, like, I can't, I just don't, I don't have just a switch where I can just turn it on. And he says, sure you do. And he just flicks her nipples. Oh my God. My favorite is her response. And she's just like, that's disrespectful. I laughed out loud. It was so funny. But he gets super mad and she says she's not in the mood. He says, when are you ever in the mood? And he just abruptly gets up, puts his clothes on and leaves the house in the middle of the night. Whoa. Going for a walk.

Okay. He says he's going for a walk. If my fiance did that, I'd be like, lock the door. I'm not lying. You're going to sleep out there. So Grant, he does not go for a walk, does he, Sammy? No, he sure doesn't. He goes straight to a karaoke bar. It's just like a little dive bar, but there is a woman doing some karaoke there. And a woman comes up to him. That i didn't quite catch this she's the sister of someone he went to high school with basically like a someone that has known him since they were younger but is now admitting that she's like had a crush on him and kind of flirting with him yeah

imagine dive bar barbie you know she yeah she's she's uh she's looking to get it in Five bar Barbie, you know, she, she's, she's, uh, she's looking to get it in. Her name is Brenda. She has a, has claustrophobia and meat phobia. Things aren't going to end well for Brenda. Just keep that in mind. And something that's important to know is that Grant's name is Grant, Grant. His last name is also Grant. And it made me laugh so much every time anyone said even just his name because i was like his name is grant grant incredible it's just such a

incredible joke i love it um but yeah they go out into the woods they're you know a little drunk and flirty and uh she's going to show him that she carved their initials in a tree trunk when she was younger and is like see look i've always had a crush on you and her initials are bm and he laughs at her and is like your initials are bm oh my god like a shit and what this guy sucks yeah yeah he does suck and she's like at least my name's not grant grant really really got me good um and she goes in for the kiss and he kind of responds but then pulls away shortly and is like i can't i can't do this because it's starla and before they can decide whether to continue or break it off they see a nasty little gooey egg that looks like

it has hatched oh slither slither and yeah um so but yeah there's like this like trail of slime and like a dumbass he follows it see i would have, I would have been like, kickball change, exit stage right. And he does not. He follows this. And he sees this like huge slimy slug thing just like slithering in the woods. And then the slug like opens up its vagina. That sounds bad. Sounds something. Yeah.

It opens up something. And this little like rod sticks out and then it shoots some kind of dart right into Grant's chest. Yeah. Like fully goes inside of his body. Oh, no. Not good. Yes. So he falls to the ground and then they have this strangely artistic shot of an X-ray version of Grant.

We can like see inside of him. Yep. And we see this like kind of centipede kind of image working its way up Grant's body before implanting itself directly into his brain. Is he dead? No. He wakes up in a super grumpy mood and just like grabs brenda um and we're like oh no she's in trouble but then he lets go and he just kind of stumbles off so he's not he's not looking super normal his like nose and ears are bleeding yeah so we you we're suspicious, but he's up and walking.

He's up and moving. So he drives home. He drives, you know, pulls into the driveway very erratically. But we see him go to the fridge in his house and he opens it up and he just says, meat. And he just starts taking all of the raw meat out of the fridge. Which they had a lot of. Why did they have so much? There was so much bologna.

It was really too much for two people. Well, like a typical man, there was not a veggie in sight. No veggies in sight. No veggies. This sounds like my parents' house, honestly. There's so much meat always whenever I go home. I'm like, what are you guys doing? You guys are living off of so much meat.

How are you going to eat this fast enough? It's going to go bad. Yeah. It's a lot of meat. So we cut to Starla waking up the next morning. She's in bed. She's alone. Grant's not in bed with her.

We see then Grant. He's in the basement randomly, like, rolling around in a pile of leaves. I loved this. Like a dog. He's, like, made a little pile of leaves and he's just rolling around in it it's very silly it is very silly so and then he can hear starla you know stirring around upstairs so um he comes up to the living room and he sees starla standing there she's in her robe and you can tell that she wants this marriage to work so she's ignoring all of the signs that he

was just out cheating on her all night and this and, I'm going to have sex with my husband. So he starts like kind of crying because when she approaches him, you know, she calls him Grant and he starts crying and she's like, oh, you're changing. And they would go in to start having sex. And he's like, changing and they would go in to start having sex and he's like takes off he unbuttons his shirt and starless he's a fucking hole in his chest like a hole there and she's like what's that and he's like oh it's just a bug bite and they're so horny that she just is like okay and they do it it anyway okay i was like this movie is wild yep um so then we see um starla the next day she's at work she's like humming to herself like getting her like at the in the break room she has a little friend there and she's like we had a really good morning it Grant's really changing. Her friend's like, you're a slut. So the sex was good.

The sex was great. But we see Grant at the same time as this, presumably, and he's at the grocery store and he buys literally the entire meat counter at this grocery store. He's insatiable. The way that he does it is so funny. He's like, starts low and then he's like, give me, you know, five steaks. You know what? 10 steaks. You know what? Like just keeps going up and up. It's very funny. It is funny. Um, so now, you know, it's after work. Starla is home after a surely torturous day dealing with teenagers.

But now she's the one doing the house chores. And she's walking by the door that goes down to the basement. And we see her notice that there is suddenly a padlock on the basement door. And she's questioning him about it. She's like, wait, I mean, like you've drilled this into the door frame all haphazardly. What is this? And after he like gaslights her a little bit and he's like, don't ask me questions when it's so close to your birthday. And she's like, well, my birthday's in two months. She just kind of like is like, OK, and walks off. And then we start seeing him deal with some sort of medical problem.

Like he's not feeling great. We can see by his face and he's like breathing heavy. We're like, is he having a heart attack? Is he having a stroke? But he stumbles outside and he's in his front yard. And as he's going through it, he looks over and he sees a dog in his front yard and this dog is barking at him and the screen goes black

and we just hear the dog screech, like whimper, whine. He's eating all the meat that's presented to him. Yeah, this is a point in the movie where you're like, unacceptable. No, no. Not okay. So that's not good um and then so then now we're cutting i don't know if it's later that night or a little while

later but we are now at night time and grant and starla are getting ready for a party because we hear starla just like yell to him we have have to get ready. But Grant is too busy looking at himself in the mirror because he has this new rash all over his neck. Like it looks like he has scabies, like all over his neck. Not great. I mean, Starla's getting in the shower and he is still really going through

whatever he's going through because we can hear all of these like squishy, crunchy noises coming from his body. I don't know what it exactly sounds like, but it doesn't sound anything like my body's ever made. And then this is where I think everything starts to get really fucked because Grant starts, he sneaks into the bathroom where Starla is showering and you can see something pulsing out of his shirt, like in his chest area. And all of a sudden these two worm like tentacles come through the buttonholes. To me, they look like breakfast sausages without their casing. Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. Yeah, really gross.

Disgusting. With like these two little like pincers on the end. Totes gross. When Grant is like reaching for the shower door, Starla's back to him. So she doesn't see any of this because he really wants to get a taste of that. And then we see this moment where the inner Grant is like, no. And he refrains and he pulls his hand back and Starla turns around. She's like, what are you doing? And he like, you know, turns his back so she can't see his little chest worms.

And he like pushes them back inside of him. And he's like, I have to go to work. And she's like, but what about the party? And he's like, I'll meet you there. And off he goes. Close call. Close call. Really close call. Really close. But I feel like there's gonna be more calls we're not done not even close

so now we find out what the deer cheer is we were at the deer cheer the entire town's there and it's this um hunting festival of them hunting deers. And, you know, so I mean, picture, I mean, everyone's line dancing. There's a bluegrass band on stage. It is a party. It's a moment. It is the event of the year. Everyone's there.

But we keep cutting back and forth during this time. So now, while everyone's line dancing, we get a glimpse at Brenda's house, Dive Bar Barbie from the karaoke bar. And by the way, this is another scene where the scenery was just so good, like the set dressing that they did, because her house legit looks like how these small lower income houses looked at that time. Like she had this blue upholstered chair that I'm pretty sure my grandma had growing up. And there's like smashed like pillows and crocheted blankets that her grandma probably made. And like there's like vinyl wood panels on the wall. It's really impressive. It's like it's very realistic to me.

Again, this is why it's a nostalgic film. But Grant shows up at her house. He knocks on her front door and it looks like he's trying to pick up where they left off in the woods, if you catch my drift. So we leave them for a moment to say hello. But we cut back to the deer cheer where Bill and Starla have the necessary, typical, awkward, forbidden love conversation where we're just building the tension between the two of them. Nothing to really drive the story, but, you know, he makes a little joke about how he's not he's not getting buzzed because he's too, too muscular, too many muscles. And she mentions, oh, I'm a little chilly. And she's waiting for him to give his coat to her.

And then, you know, as they're, you know, having this moment, something distracts them, a loud noise, and the moment's ruined. So that happens. But now we're back at Brenda's house. And so Brenda has a little baby with her. Oh, shit. She has a little baby. God damn it.

And we see Brenda. She comes in. She's very proud of herself. She's put some Ritz crackers and yellow cheese on a little tray. Looks good. She's like, I would love some right now. And she's like, cheese and crackers. And Grant goes over and we see him like looking in the little bassinet, the little thing.

We're like, oh, no, the baby's not. Oh, is he going to eat the baby? We're feeling scared. We don't know what's about to happen. We are feeling nervous. But suddenly he turns around and he looks at Brenda and she starts undoing her shirt, you know, her top and he's approaching her

and he starts undoing his and Grant rips off his shirt and it is shocking to say the least because his entire chest and stomach is covered in this like pussy red inflamed boils ew so gross yeah and then his two little chest worms come out and he full on attacks Brenda. And his little worms, they puncture Brenda's stomach and start going inside of her. And he's also like covering her mouth. It's a pretty shocking scene, but they do like, it is upsetting, but I do think they do alleviate the awkwardness and like the shock value of this like alien rape scene by making it look like Brenda's having the best sex of her life. Like she's like having a seizure and like flailing around.

I mean, they put a little comedic bit in there to kind of. Soften it for us. Soften it a bit for us. Oh, disgusting. It also looks like something is being pumped into her through the little wormy tentacle, guys. Something's going in. Something's going in. Oh, Brenda, you should never have gone to that dive bar.

I know. Oh, terrible. So we don't, I mean, we don't see the outcome of that. We cut to Starla. She's getting home from the party. She comes in, the lights won't turn on as she enters the house and she's calling out for Grant because he never showed up. And boom, he pops up in her face and he is now fully disfiguring his head and face look crazy it's misshapen um and she's like what is happening and he just tells her that it's a bee sting and that the doctor he's already been to the doctor and the doctor says this happens all the time okay but like fully disfigured face and head oh okay but she's like oh okay and he's like head. Oh, okay. But she's like, oh, okay.

And he's like, don't look at me like that. She's like, okay. Starla, get the fuck out of there. What are you doing, girl? I feel like this is like a message on abusive relationships. Yeah. It's like a commentary on women not leaving. Yeah.

So the next morning, Starla, she calls the doctor's office and she's like, hey, I think Grant's condition is getting worse. And the doctor is like, I have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't seen Grant in like a year. So she's starting to, you know, get the signs that something suspicious is happening. But we also at the same time see a scene where Grant is just shoving raw meat into garbage bags. And it does not look like steaks. It looks like questionable meat. Yeah.

snakes you know it looks like questionable meat yeah um and then we see starla she's driving her car and she and she stops and she looks out of her window and she sees a missing dog poster the dog from the front yard i feel like there's like a bunch of posters isn't there or is that yeah like that's the like the one right in the middle but like all around it there's like missing cat missing dog missing a lot of animals in this neighborhood seem to be missing not good no not good so grant is now walking through the woods with his bags of meat and then he randomly decides that he doesn't need his glasses anymore throws his eyeglasses to the ground and keeps on his way. And he goes to this barn or shed.

I guess it is a barn. Presumably the monks. The monks. The matrix monks. The matrix monks. And he goes in and guess what? He has Brenda chained up inside this barn. Oh, no.

Oh, no. So she's not dead. She is his prisoner. And you hear and she's just like, I'm so hungry. And he just like throws these bags of meat in front of her and she just starts

going to town. Disgusting. So something's up with her. Whatever was getting pumped into her is also changing her. Yep. So now we cut to Starla and she's taking out the trash, which again, man's job, right? She's working nine to five and she's doing everything around here. So she's taking out the trash and Bill and his partner, what is his partner's name again? I don't remember. I wrote it down later.

So Bill and his little cop partner, they roll up in their patrol car. And they say they're looking for Grant. They're like, is Grant home? And she's like, no. But she's like, what's this about? And they say, well, a woman went missing on Friday. Her house is completely ransacked and neighbors saw Grant going into her house. But she's like, no, he's not home.

And Bill leaves. But she goes back in the house and she's like WTF. And you can see in her head she's like something's really weird. And she gets this like idea to go snooping. So she goes in the closet and gets like something, like a golf club or something. And she starts smashing the lock on the basement door. And she breaks it. So she goes down into the basement. And first she starts to almost vomit from a smell. Ew, ew, ew.

Yeah. And we go down there and the basement is filled with dead animals. Oh, God. Yeah. So many. The dog from the yard and the missing poster like falls from the ceiling. There were like cats and wild animals. I mean, just full, full of dead animals and blood.

Starla, GTFO, get the fuck out. Well, we finally get Starla on the same page with us because she rushes back upstairs and she is dialing Bill back. She's like trying to call Bill to get him back here but it goes to voicemail. And she's like pacing back and forth in front of the windows of her living room and she's leaving this voicemail and as she

like goes to pass a window we see Grant standing in the window from outside and he can hear what she's saying. He just like lets out this roar, but it was not human. He like roars at her. It's really scary. And so she runs away and she like goes to like a back door. And as she opens it, he's standing there and he pushes her into the house and he's like, you betrayed me. Why are you betraying me and so he pushes her down to the ground he like rips open his shirt again he's super disfigured his little chest worms come

flying out of his chest and he's gonna try to whatever happens when he starts pumping his little things inside of her but as he has her to of pinned to the ground, she like reaches over and grabs an item and she like smashes him in the head, which gives her enough time to like turn around and then he puts her in a chokehold. And while she's in the chokehold, we see his arm literally growing, like getting longer and like, I don't know, really, really weird. And so we think this is the end. This is it for Starla. She her life is over. But in true small town cop fashion, Bill and the other town cops bust in and they're like there to save the day. And Grant gets up.

He runs outside. But he has this one like super long, dangly like octopus arm on one side. And as he's running, it's just like flailing around, knocking over random items. And apparently Michael Rooker dislocated his shoulder in this scene because the way he's running, he has, I think he like smacks his arm on the doorframe or something. And it's just like basically making one of his arms flail.

And he, so he dislocated his shoulder, but he didn't tell anybody until the end of the day. He kept working with it, which is like, oh my gosh, that's commitment. Let's get this. Did he just not know? I feel like you would know. That's crazy.

I feel like. Yeah. I feel like you would. Yeah, he would probably know. But. What a good guy. Yeah. What a good guy.

So, you know, they, the cops are all standing there wide-eyed and bill just goes what the fuck i mean what the fuck indeed bill so so now to like recap grant who is extremely disfigured has chest worms coming out an octopus arm and a basement filled with dead animals is now missing and on the run. Yep. Not good. And the cops run outside. They don't see him. And we see the screen pop up and it says three days later.

Yeah. That's like the first couple minutes of the movie. Really? It's like 20 minutes. Yeah. It's like the first couple minutes of the movie it does really it's like 20 minutes yeah it's like the first first act i'd i'd say oh shit yeah okay well poor people are gonna get fucking screwed over by this larva shit whatever it is things are not looking good for this town no it's not and the next scene is the mayor and he's in the police station and they make it very clear that they have not found Grant yet. And they really want to find him. The mayor is freaking out and all the other cops are just like randomly making

jokes about it. I feel like they don't know because they're calling him like a squid. He looked like a squid squid guy and they keep referencing that and the mayor doesn't know if he believes them or not he's like he might have just been on meth or something i can't remember what he says but one of the cops is like his arm was all bendy this is like why does that what does that make you it doesn't that wouldn't do that his arm was all bendy yeah um. So a weird little scene. But then that's when we first meet Jenna Fisher or Pam. And so she's the like secretary slash like police dispatcher.

And she tells them that there was another attack at a farm on the outskirts of town. And then we find out that Grant, he's been killing animals at these farms all around the edge of town. It's pretty well known. So they go out to this farm. There's like a bunch of dead dogs. And they're saying, how can we find Grant?

Because these woods are like 100,000 acres big. So Bill's like, let's get some people together. I have an idea. I know where he's going. And so they get together at the police station and Bill is like, I know where he's going to strike next. Um, which is really funny. Cause it's just like, he's just like going in order. It's like, yeah, this is, didn't take much, much brain power to figure that out. But they they load up on guns, right? It's all the cops, a couple townspeople, and they're loading up on all these guns. And one of the deputies asks if they should bring this grenade that they have in the evidence locker.

But Bill's like, no, just the guns are fine. And so now they're outside. They're getting ready to leave to go to this farm to stake out when Starla comes up to the cop car. And she's like, Bill, I'm coming with you. And Bill's like, you can't come with us because you're a citizen, not a cop. And that's dangerous. And probably I would get fired. And but she insists, she's like, we have to find this girl alive. And you know, I he Grant wants me so I'm going to come with you. And it didn't take much convincing. He says, All right, come along. So then we cut to this this farm. It's a family farm. It's a very typical rich for a not rich town kind of rich family. There's a dad, a mom, a teen daughter named Kylie who's – she's got a mouth on her.

She's got – she's like the teenage, you know, attitude. And they make a point to talk about her acrylic nails that she just got done. Like her mom's like, what did you do to your nails? And then there are also younger twin girls. And they're just sat around. We meet them really quickly. But then we go out and the team is setting up around the farm during the day. And then it cuts to night. It's clearly been hours while they've been staking out nothing to be seen.

Bill and Starla reminisce about the time when they were teenagers and Starla wanted to run away to Hollywood to be a big star. And she asked Bill to come with her to be her bodyguard. And he said no. And so she didn't end up going. So we're building that story up a little bit more. And then we see him. Grant comes walking out of the woods through the field. And he's really changed in three days. He's really, really changed. He kind of looks like a

demonic centaur, but also a slug and squid and squid so it's it's a hybrid yeah there's a lot there's a lot going on there's tentacles going in all directions and boils the centaur is he like a half horse like what's that it's kind of like the bottom half is like this like slug and then the top half still looks kind of humanish okay got it got it it. Got it. All right. I see. But not really. And then it has these like octopus arm horns. Yeah. Really, really weird. And he just like slowly slithers up to this cow and just destroys it.

I mean, kills the cow very, very quickly. and just destroys it. I mean, kills the cow very, very quickly and wraps one of his little tentacle arms around the cow's neck and is like dragging him away. And Starla is like, Grant! And, you know, Grant turns around and we see his face up close for the first time

and it's crazy. Half of his mouth has like jagged teeth. It's like as if he's like jokerfied on one side or like almost like venom's teeth and the whole outside of him looks like a brain i had it written down he looks inside out yeah yeah he looks inside out it's really really weird um and it's so slimy i don't know know. It was so fucked. But Starla, she's trying to like, she's trying to tell him like, I'll stand by you. And, you know, like, you're my husband, it's gonna be okay. And you can see him, like struggling internally with that.

But then, you know, whatever makes him decide this, he decides he's not going to listen to her and stay. So he turns to leave. But then one of the guys that was one, he's not dressed like a cop, but he was on their little posse. He confronts him and says, we need to find this girl alive so you're not going anywhere. And he's pointing a gun at him. And Grant hurls one of his tentacles at this guy and literally splits him in half like tall wise like hot dog style is long ways and we just see his guts spill out and then him fall to two sides yep i love a hot dog style cut. Hot dog slice. I track them in horror movies. It happens a lot.

It does. Gets me every time. And then of course, everyone's like, what? And Grant goes down to the ground and slithers away super fast into the woods. And so now the group, they're in the woods and they're trying to find him. They keep seeing little signs of him. Like they hear him in like a little creek. They see, I don't know, blood or something. Like they just find ways to track him and they end up at the barn. So we're at the barn. Bill loses a quick game of rock, paper, scissors, which means he's in charge of opening the door because they can smell that something's not right.

Something's not good. Something's not good. And they open the door to this barn and they see, in my opinion, one of the craziest sights in film. Yeah. In film history. They see Brenda. They see Brenda.

She's in there. But Brenda's now, she's very obese. She's very round, fully circular. She's just a little head. It's like Violet Beauregard in Charlie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Yeah, she's like a sphere. Yes, but like, but naked. Yeah, but gross. Very gross version of like she has blood dripping from her mouth she's telling them i didn't want anybody to see me like this but i'm just so hungry she asks these people if they can like give her roadkill but it's sitting next to her for her to eat but she keep her body keeps like doing this weird like pulsing and like kind of moving forward, which is actually her growing right in front of their eyes. And so they're, you know, they're trying to say, oh, we're going to get you to the hospital.

And everyone's freaking out. But her body keeps kind of approaching them. And then she literally starts ripping at the seams. Like we see her flesh tear because she's too big. And all of a sudden, this tsunami of slugs starts cascading out of her body. Ew, ew, ew, ew. The same kind of slug that we saw like at the beginning. Well, no, that was a different kind.

That was a white slug. These are little red slugs. Yeah. Ew. Ew. Little red slugs. And I mean, and there are so many of them. Yeah, thousands.

Thousands of slugs. Oh. And they are quickly all over these people. And they are starting to go into the mouths of like some of the cops. Like they're forcing their way into these people's mouths. And so Bill sees this, and he catches on very quickly. So he jumps onto Starla, and he covers her mouth, and he covers his own mouth. And the mayor also runs outside.

And they're all covered in slugs. But as soon as they can't get into their mouth they kind of let that idea go and the slugs just all slither away and so which is interesting because i'm just thinking this now but this is so gross but there's other entrances to values and seemed like they could kind of they weren't going that they weren't the writers weren't going there i mean i'm not saying i i'm not saying i wanted that but i i am thinking it a little bit also henley i just want to say for your reassurance i don't know how reassuring this will be but there is a brief little moment in this conversation before she explodes where she says, how's my boy?

It's my boy. OK. And and Bill tells her, yes, your boy's fine. He's fine. So it's, you know, the baby is OK. But she did explode into a million slugs. So his mom, his mom, hopefully he never hears the true story of what happened to his mom. His mom, hopefully he never hears the true story of what happened to his mom.

So now we leave the barn and we see the slugs and they're in the yard of the farmhouse of that family where the stakeout happened. And they're like approaching the house. And we see the teenage daughter, Kylie. She is taking a bath and she puts her little headphones in. She's enjoying her bath. But we see like a slug slither across the bathroom window. So she doesn't see that. Mom is doing the really good mom thing. And she's going around.

She's checking on everybody before bed. She goes into the twin girls room and says, it's time for bed. And a fact that I loved about this, they're reading Goosebumps books. Oh, perfect. Love it. Yeah. I loved that. So that's happening. Everything looks typical night. Everything's in order. She says it's family fun day tomorrow.

Oh yeah. The next day is family fun day. So time for bed, everybody. Did anybody have a family fun day? Because I did. And this actually was like triggering for me. No. I never had that. What does that mean? It's a designated family time.

It was just my mom and I, but we would have like specific nights where we had to play board games and stuff and it was when I was a teenager because it was when I was a huge asshole and didn't want to spend any time with her and so I would have these like forced nights of having to play boggle with my mom and I would hate it so much but in hindsight I think it was a nice thing for her to she was attempting to try to do. Yeah. So we go back into Kylie's bath and we see a slug.

It enters the house through a bathroom window. It has breached the house, everybody. And it slithers and it goes into the bathtub with her. Worst nightmare. She's totally relaxed. She has her headphones in. Her eyes are closed. She's loving it.

So she doesn't notice. And then we see it literally swimming towards her. Like looking like a little sperm. Really weird. Yeah. Just like slithering. And this is actually a moment where I thought it was going to go somewhere else. Yeah.

I mean, this one would make sense, but. But it doesn't. It's gone through the mouth. It does. It forces its way into her mouth. And these are large. Like, this is not like a little slug. This is like, it's fully like your jaws unhinged to get this thing inside.

Ew. Ew. And, but she, she grabs it before it can go all the way in. And this is where those acrylic nails come back in. So she's it before it can go all the way in. And this is where those acrylic nails come back in. So she's like squeezing it with those acrylic nails. But we do get a moment where we see, as it's in her mouth, that she starts getting visions of this alien world where there's some kind of war going on. Like these huge slugs are fighting something else. It's clearly alien. It's clearly a different planet. There's a conflict. Then we can also see the point of view

of like Grant seeing that first slug and getting, you know, hit with whatever it was. Attacked in the woods. We see him in Brenda's house the night of the deer cheer. So she's getting visions of everything the first slug has seen. But Kylie is luckily able to pull the slug from her mouth. And then she fries it with a hot curling iron. Oh, nice. Which is so funny because on our last episode in No One Will Save You, Caitlin Deaver uses a regular curling iron. And we were saying how a hot curling iron would be a good weapon, but a regular curling iron, not so much.

Unplugged curling iron, not so useful. So it was satisfying to now get to see the hot curling iron in use. Yep. Wow. I'm obviously just imagining Kylieylie jenner in this part obviously with the acrylic nails yeah um she's doing so well all of that so i mean irresponsible for her to just have it like it plugged in that whole time she's in the bathroom but luckily it saved her life um however the rest of her family is not so lucky

so she leaves the room uh the bathroom you you know, to tell everybody what's happening. But immediately she runs into her mom and her mom just like spits blood all over her face. So she's compromised. Her twin sisters then scream from their bedroom. So she goes to try to help them, but the door's locked. And she turns and she sees way too many slugs for my liking coming up the stairs towards her so she literally starts like she gets like a statue and she starts breaking down the twins room door bedroom door she finally gets in but they've already been attacked like they're on the floor

like seizing um so and then you turn and you see on the wall, like the room is full of slugs. So she does the only thing she can and she goes out of the window onto the roof. They're on the second story. And now she's trapped on the roof. So she decides the only thing she can do is jump to the ground. But she did a really good job. She didn't hurt herself. She jumped to the ground and it was all fine. It looked impressive. It was really impressive. Great form protecting her knees. Yes. Really, really great form. Yeah. But then as soon as it happened, her dad comes falling out of the front door, also attacked by the slugs. So, I mean, this is nonstop. Once we get to this moment of the movie, it just never lets up. So, even though she just saved herself, she doesn't have a second to

breathe. Slugs are now coming after her again on the ground. So, she has to run and she sees the family truck, pickup truck, and she gets in and she locks herself in but she doesn't have the keys so she can't drive off um and then we can just see from the light coming in uh through the windshield just like shadows of slugs literally covering the truck so gross not a great situation no um so uh we'll leave them for a little bit. We go back to the barn where Bill Starla, the mayor, and Margaret, the lesbian cop, are trying to figure out what to do with the ones that the slugs entered. And Bill is trying to like call people, but he doesn't have any cell reception. So he's like, I have to go back to the car. And as he's walking to the car, he sees a deer.

And then he sees a slug go into the deer. So they're not just coming after humans. They're going after all life. Yeah. So we go back to the barn. Bill's partner, Wally, that's his name. Wally. back to the barn um bill's partner wally that's his name wally um he um he had gotten attacked by the slugs but we see him and he wakes up because they looked all dead on the ground they said that they were still breathing but they were out but he wakes up and he's kind of like

stalking over to starla whose back is to him um him at like a little water well. But he does not look good. He does not look like friendly Wally from the beginning. And Starla turns around, she sees him and he starts talking to her. But he starts calling her sugarplum, like Grant called her. And he says he's sorry for trying to strangle her and he's sorry for killing all of those pets. So he's talking as if he's Grant, which is a twist. And as this is happening, all of the police who ate the slugs, they wake up and they're giving zombie. Yes. They're very much giving zombie and like how they're like moving, how they're acting. So we go back to the farmhouse. Kylie's in the car.

And now her slug eating zombie family, they're surrounding the truck and they're trying to get in. And there's like the twins are like, the young twins are really creepy. Like tomorrow's family fun day, Kylie. But she's not falling for it. She knows that this is not her family so she's like just kind of camping on the truck it's very scary um we go back to the barn with the cops and now they have

the lesbian cop margaret um held hostage they have her and all the cops, they're now talking in unison to Starla as Grant. Really weird. So Margaret, she feels like this is her moment because they're all talking to Starla and she starts to pull her gun out of the holster. But then one of the slug zombies spits neon green snot at her and it hits her in the face. And of course it's acid. So she's like, it burns. And her face starts blowing up and then Margaret's dead. Oh, okay. Bye Margaret. Yeah. So Starla, she's had it and she's like, I fucking shoot you so she has a shotgun and she's like pointing it at these people and wally the slug zombie is like not having it that she's had it so he starts

walking towards her and she literally shoots him in the head with a shotgun as he's half of his head off taunting her like you don't have the balls to shoot me and yeah she does she does and she does um and so half of his head gets blown off and we see the slug come out of its head drop to the ground and like slither away so that happens the other three cops are now coming after um grant i mean starla and the mayor so um starla tries to shoot, but she doesn't have any more bullets. The gun just clicks. So they run away. Okay. Then we go back to the farm and the family is still trying to get Kylie in the truck. But Bill walks up on this scene and he's like, hey, what are you guys doing? So Kylie sees her opportunity and she jumps out of the truck.

She runs to Bill and she's like, that's not my family. There are slugs in their brains. So Bill is like, I don't know what's going on here, but Kylie's going to come with me. And then all of a sudden, the guy from the beginning who was drinking beer in broad daylight with no upper lip, he attacks Bill from behind and hits him with something, like a rake or something. Bill falls to the ground. We see townspeople who are slug zombies coming from all directions. It's an infestation. So Bill shoots the alcoholic slug zombie in the foot,

giving him and Kylie just enough time to escape. So they run away. And they run to his patrol car. I mean, they're dodging acid spit through all of this they get he gets um kylie in the backseat of the car he gets in the car and bill sees starla and the mayor like running away from a cop zombie in the road in front of him. So Bill like hits the gas and he hits the cop zombie who was just about to get the mayor. He runs into him with his car and Starla goes up to him with this like steel like fence post and just like impales him in the head with it and then finishes him off with a kick to the head.

And the mayor is like, she's a badass or whatever. Yeah, she is. Starla is really coming into her own. She has come a long way. That's right. She's come a long way. Yeah. I'm impressed.

Yeah. So that was really great. So she, her and the mayor, they hop into Bill's cop car and they drive off with dozens of slug zombies all screaming Starla. So they're all wanting Starla. Okay. So that was a lot. So now we have Bill's cop car and we have Bill. He's with Starla, the mayor, and the teen girl, Kylie.

Yep. We have Bill. He's with Starla, the mayor, and the teen girl, Kylie. Yep. And he radios into the police station to Jenna Fisher and says, you know, he wants the CDC. He wants her to call the CDC to be like, hey, we have something going on here. And Jenna's like, yeah, OK. By the way, your mom called to say that you clogged up the toilet.

It's what you did in there on sunday and obviously he's very embarrassed because starla's in the car so um jenna fisher she's getting ready to call the cdc but then bam she looks up and slugs start falling from the ceiling she screams and it's not looking good nope now we're in the car kylie tells everybody in the car how when the slug was in her mouth that she became grant but it wasn't grant it was the slug from outer space and that she learned that this alien goes from world to world destroying them. Like that's the whole. Like taking over everybody. Yeah. So that's what's happening on Earth.

That is, the stakes are high. The stakes are very high. Even though these are the stakes, the mayor is very upset that his favorite soda, Dr. Pibb, is not in the cooler in the backseat. He's very preoccupied with that. So Bill calls, radio's back in to whatever Jenna Fisher's character's name is, to check in on the CDC call. But now she's talking like Grant. And she says, we have a little surprise for you around the

corner killer. And then bam, they get T-boned by another truck. They get hit by a car. They get in a car accident. And then we see Bill, he's waking up from being knocked out. We see a little sign that says Jesus saves. And right away, there are slug zombies and they're pulling Starla out of the car. They're kidnapping her. And they carry her away. They're successful. But Bill, he is able to save Kylie and get her out of the car before they get her. So Bill is like, I have to go to the police station. There's a grenade there. And I have an idea. So he goes to the police station. And when he gets there, it's dark. There's no one there.

There's no sign of Pam. He goes over to her desk. He tries to call for help, but the lines are down. So he just goes to get the grenade. But then he hears something and he looks to the right. And all of a sudden, he is attacked by the fucking slug zombie deer that he saw in the woods. It looks so funny, too. It looks so funny. It's just like a very puppety looking deer, but it's great. I mean, that really made me laugh. Yeah. So he's pinned down. He's getting

attacked by this deer. And then Kylie, she comes in and she saves him. Love it. Oh, Kylie Jenner is fucking killing it. You gotta have Kylie Jenner on your side. Yeah. So he grabs the grenade and he gives Kylie a gun and they're off. Okay. So now we see a bunch of slug zombies. They put Starla down on a bed in a house. Like they set her down, but they're being very gentle with her. They're like brushing her hair and they have like a cloth and they're like wiping blood off of her. So they're being very sweet um and then we see we see a little scene between bill and kylie you know they're you know

they're talking about how this doesn't look good they're probably gonna you know get killed tonight but he he does say um he does like thank kylie for saving him from the deer but he says but just so you know if we survive this i'm to tell the story the other way around, that I saved you from the deer. So, okay. But it's a cute little moment between these two. Then we go back to Starla. And now Starla, she's all clean.

She's in like a silk white nightie. Her hair is like freshly done. And she wakes up. So we see the mayor hiding out in a basement and he hears some things. He's like calling out for Bill. He lights a lighter and he sees a bunch of people eating other people or meat. So he gets scared. He runs upstairs, but then he's immediately attacked by chest worms.

Which seem like they've gotten bigger. Much bigger. Oh, no. Yeah, much bigger chest worms. So Starla's up in her room walking around. You know, she can hear some of these people saying, we can hear you up there. And is it a mirror that she finds i think it's a hairbrush but it could also be a mirror it's definitely one of those two things it's some sort of like

beauty instrument but the the end of it is pointy like sharp and pointy and so she grabs that and she like hides it in like a garter or something her stockings or something is this when bill and kylie arrive yes so bill and kylie they are sneaking their way to the house um i mean zombies are just shoving meat in their faces and then that's when we see the mayor um and we're like oh maybe he's okay because we see him but then he starts eating the arm of a man okay so he is he is done. He is done. Yeah. So Starla walks into a room and this room is like a shrine to her. Every

wall is filled with pictures of her and Bill. Very creepy. She turns the corner and then we see, not her and Bill, her and Grant. So then we turn the corner and we see Grant for the first time in a while. And he's the size of the room that he's in.

Oh, no. Okay. Yeah. But not circular, not like Brenda. He's not like slug pregnant. He is just like absorbing other slug zombie people. Yep. Like they're just kind of like infusing into his body kind of like a disgusting slug zombie or people. Yep. Like they're just kind of like infusing into his body, kind of like a disgusting slug zombie

orgy. Yep. So really disturbing. Oh God. Yeah, really disturbing stuff. So bad. Yeah. It's so bad.

So Bill spots Starla. He's outside, but he sees her through a window. But then Grant, he gets a hold of Starla and he's like talking to her, but through all of the mouths of the other bodies that are melting into him. It's not coming from his mouth. It's coming from all the other ones. And he's saying to her, like, he's jealous that she doesn't like him and she's trying to run off with Bill. But she very intelligently does not freak out. She starts to speak to Grant, not the monster that's inside of him. And she's trying to sympathize with him. And she says,

you know, she's slowly walking towards him because he lets her go. And she says, you know, I will be with you and this is going to be okay. You know, we can be together and we'll get through this. And she gets very close to him. She's going in to kiss this very grotesque monster that's standing in front of her. And she pulls out whatever that spiky thing was, the mirror, the hairbrush. And she stabs him in the neck. Great. Starla. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. But now, because they're all connected, all the slug zombies are pissed. They are mad. Oh, of course. Starla, she gets flung across the room into the wall.

And then, you know, his little tentacle goes around her neck and she's being choked. Bill runs into this house, sees the mayor. The mayor, who still has some of his, you know, own brain capacity left, is like, please kill me. So he just shoots him right in the head. It's like an immediate too. He's just like, yep, here you go. Shoots him in the head. Yeah.

He did not care about that one. So Mayor's gone. So Bill, he pulls, he walks into the room. He pulls the pin on the grenade that he has, but Grant knocks it out of his hand. So he goes behind the couch. He's fumbling around with it. Bill has the grenade in his hand, but he gets thrown out of a window onto a porch.

The grenade ends up in a pool and it goes off in the pool. So that plan is now ruined. The thinking is that because Grant is like the patient zero i guess that if you kill him it'll kill all of them they're all connected they're all connected yes

yes that makes sense so now grant's very long very big chest worms they come out and they're coming after bill and one of them goes right into Bill's chest. He gets in. But then Bill is able to grab the other one before that one pierces him. And so there's like a helium tank next to him. And it's kind of going off. So Bill takes the pincer from that one and sticks it into the helium tank. So you can see it like now filling up that worm and going into Grant's body.

So and then Grant starts pulling Bill back in with the one that's inside of him. He pulls him in and Bill just yells to Starla, shoot him. So Starla sees a gun. She picks it up and she has a moment where she's eye to eye, like seeing Grant and they have a moment of like, this is sad, but she shoots and he explodes. Whoa, Starla. She just did what she had to do. She did what she had to do. She did what she had to do. He explodes. Slug zombie guts go flying everywhere.

We see all of the other zombies fall to the ground. The plan worked. Yep. So that was great. Starla and Kylie are okay. We see. Bloody, but okay. They walk up to Bill, who's like laying on the ground.

We're not sure about him yet. But he wakes up. But he does still have the tentacle inside of him. So he like pulls that out. Looks like it hurts. Not great, but he's okay. So that's great. We walk outside from the house.

It's daylight now. And a very bloody Starla and Bill and Kylie walk out of the house. They see bodies scattered everywhere. And Starla's like, I bet you wish you came to Hollywood with me after all. Oh, my God. She still has a sense of humor after all of that. She still has a sense of humor after all of that. She still has a sense of humor. She's not like the other girls.

And then we just see the three of them walk off together across a yard of dead bodies, presumably to start their lifelong journey in therapy. Yeah. Holy shit. We can only hope that's where they're going. So everyone who was infected with those little wormies all died. They're all dead. Second grant died. They're dead. They're dead. Oh my god. where they're going so everyone who was infected with those little wormies all died second grand died they're dead they're dead oh my god that is a town filled with dead people and so many wormies

is this um so is there a branch of the u.s government that's responsible for cleaning up this kind of thing i mean interesting yeah whose job is Like, how does a cleanup happen? I don't know. But it's a big mess. Hope we never find out. Horrifying. Horrifying. Yeah. I was surprised by that, too. There was a part of me that was like, oh, well, the slugs will fall out of their brains and they'll be back to normal in no time.

And they'll be back to normal in no time. But no, when you think about it, it does make more sense for them to all die. Because, yeah, they had something in their brain. And that sounds hard to survive. Yeah. Gross. So R.I.P. the whole town, basically, except for... Except for Starla, who is a fun final girl, I gotta say. And Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner should star in a horror movie

i can't stop i could definitely see it i feel like eli roth would direct a movie with kylie jenner in it and tim and timothee chalamet oh they can do it together well now that's an 824 movie so i don't know you're right right. You're right. You're right. We're getting confused. Yeah. I don't know where to categorize that one. That was disgusting, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. You know what I mean? Like the humor really makes it more tolerable. I think you would really hate watching it. I don't want to watch it. No one wants to watch it. But there are moments where it could have been worse. Like the baby part, I was like, oh no, I don't remember what happens with this baby.

And yeah, we don't love that his mother died exploding a million slugs out of her, but he did survive and that is good. I guess we don't know for sure that he survived. I shouldn't say that, but you know, the rest of the town didn't do too well. Disgusting. Oh my God. But Misha, you did such a good job. That was incredible. Wait, that was literally incredible. There's also a post-credit scene that I didn't notice the first time I watched it. But as I was scrolling through to take notes, I saw there's a post-credit scene

where there's a cat going up to a piece of exploded alien meat and licking it and then it starts moving and something looks like it's coming out of it and it cuts to black and you just hear like the cat screeching. So it's not over. Slither 2, 2024. We've always got to keep the option open. Elizabeth Banks can star again. Nathan Fillion, let's get the cast back together. I feel like Slither 2 could kill at the box office.

They would make a Slither 2. They would absolutely make a slither too. Yes, they would. Yeah. And Timothee and Kylie can star in that. That was really fun. That was like a fun one. I just did not like hearing about Brenda and Grant's final forms. Those I was not interested in. Yeah. They're not fun to see either, but I mean, the effects do look good. And like the part where one of the cops spits acid in the other cop's face and her face like swells up all crazy. That looked like pretty, like sometimes I just catch

myself being like, Whoa, how did they do that? Like movie magic is crazy. Um, but yeah, it is, it is a fun one and I'm very glad you picked it. I'm glad I got to rewatch it because I have been thinking about it, especially in October. I've, I, I did the same thing where I just watched horror movies basically all month long. I mean, I guess I do that a lot anyways, but I watched more, even more than usual. And Slither was on my list. So I'm glad you picked it. Thank you so much, Misha. Yeah.

And before we go, could you tell our listeners where they can find you and just a little bit about The Big Flop? Yeah. So you can find me personally on all social media channels at Don't Cross a Gay Man. And The Big Flop is, yeah, it's such a fun podcast.

We go through all the biggest fails, blunders of, you know, pop culture, businesses, movies, things like that. Things that have really bombed in the past few decades. That's so fun. I always have, I have a few comedians on as my guests and I walk them through those stories. But the Big Flop is available wherever you get your podcast and early and ad-free on Wondery Plus. Ooh.

Amazing. That is such a good idea for a podcast. It really is. Because when things like fail spectacularly, you just like can't help but- You want to look. You want to know. It's like a fire festival.

You want to know like everything about, yeah, exactly. We just did the fire festival just recorded it i was so obsessed for a second you know for a hot second i can't wait to listen to that episode it'll reignite my obsession with the fire festival yeah do you know there's a fire fest too they announced it's i did because he's out of jail are you fucking kidding me are you fucking kidding me and it's and it's sold out even though they do not have a location a date or a lineup and it has sold out oh my god people are so crazy like what is wrong with everyone now everyone a bad time but it's just like now it's people who

are buying a ticket who seem they must know what they're in for, right? It's like, yeah, they know what they're signing up for. They want that freaking slice of Kraft cheese on, on, on toasted wheat bread and a couple pieces of iceberg lettuce. And the potential viral social media video. I can't wait to listen. Yeah. Great. Um, yeah.

Thank you again so much, Misha. This was wonderful. Thank you again so much, Misha. This was wonderful. Thank you. And we always end the episodes with an accent from the movie. And we did have some Southern accents in this movie. So from all of us here at Too Scary Didn't Watch, goodbye. Bye. Bye.

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