Background and Production
Gunn was said to be influenced by the wave of graphically violent horror B movies of the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely created by such directors as John Carpenter, Lloyd Kaufman, David Cronenberg, Stuart Gordon and Fred Dekker. According to journalist Steve Palopoli:
When the trailer for Slither came out, Internet boards about the movie suddenly lit up with protests from a legion of fans of the 1986 film Night of the Creeps. "Alien slugs that turn people into zombies!" they cried. "What a rip-off!" I bring this up not because I think Slither--which is a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of at least a dozen '80s horror films--could really be considered a rip-off of any one of them.Palopoli then goes on to directly compare Slither to the aforementioned Night of the Creeps as well as Shivers (1975). Gunn has stated, however, that both David Cronenberg's Shivers and his 1979 film The Brood were the two biggest influences on the story in Slither, along with the manga Uzumaki (2000) by Junji Ito. Slither also pays homage to the studio Troma Films, where Gunn began his career. Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman has a cameo as a "Sad Drunk," and one scene includes a clip from the Troma film, The Toxic Avenger.
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