Trivia / Slither

• Acclaimed Flop: Received generally positive reviews upon release, complete with 86% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, but failed to make back its 15 million dollar budget, only earning 12.8 million.
• Creator Backlash: An interesting distrubtor example. When the film flopped, Universal issued a press statement condemning James Gunn for not making a more accessible film and that they only released it as part of a deal with the film's production company, Cold Circle Films. As such, Universal refused to acknowledge the films existence and denied the film a proper Blu-Ray release until the films Shout! Factory re-release (as the film was released in the middle of the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray wars and Universal backed HD-DVD.)
• Contractual Obligation Project: The reason Universal even bothered to release the film.
• Deleted Scene: "The Long One" name comes from Kylie telling Pardy that the parasitic being calls himself that in the extension of a scene that was ultimately taken off in the final cut.
• DVD Commentary: James Gunn recorded one for the initial release and for the Scream Factory release.
• Production Posse: James Gunn works again with Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, and Nathan Fillion, all of whom would go on to appear in Super, The Suicide Squad and his Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) films. It's actually quite jarring that Sean Gunn is nowhere to be seen.
• Word of God: It's not made 100% clear in the film, but according to director James Gunn on the DVD commentary, the real Grant died when he was attacked by the alien. Everything after that was the alien, although it had absorbed Grant's memories and his love for Starla. The scene with him crying early on was to indicate the alien experiencing human emotions for the first time.

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