Slither

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Synopsis

Horror/Comedy. An alien infestation capable of turning humans into zombie-like carnivorous creatures leads a police officer (Nathan Fillion) and a housewife (Elizabeth Banks) into a desperate struggle to save the population of their small town.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, once in a sexual context; frequent use of crude and descriptive sexual language
• Frequent gun, weapons and hand-to-hand violence—detailed wounds and grotesque injuries
• Breast nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• Perspectives on life in small-town America
• The complex nature of marriage
• Mankind’s precarious position at the top of the food chain

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for frequent coarse language and detailed gory violence.

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