"Let the hunt begin!"

About a week ago, a guy who says rapey things on Twitter brought it to Disney's attention that 10 years ago director James Gunn said some rapey things on Twitter. Disney summarily fired Gunn from the next installment of Guardians of the Galaxy.

I'm sitting here thinking, nevermind Gunn's tweets. Did Disney read his resume?

Gunn started his show business career as a writer for the notoriously tasteless Troma Entertainment, where he penned the notoriously tasteless films Tromeo and Juliet and Terror Firmer. He's written and directed disturbingly dark comedies such as Super, as well as a segment for the gross-out sketch film Movie 43.

And I loved every one of them. If you ask me, he made better movies when he wrote horrible tweets.

Since we're perusing his back catalog, and getting geared up for the Louisville Zombie Walk on Aug. 25, I've got the perfect movie to talk about.

This week's Thursday Thriller is Slither.

This 2006 comedy is a contemporary take on the alien invasion films of the 1950s.

A meteor carrying an alien life form crashes just outside a small town like you might expect, but with updated special effects, it looks awesome.

Michael Rooker plays Grant Grant, a shitkicker who can't help but poke the alien with a stick, because that's what shitkickers do in these movies. It's like the shitkicker's biological imperative. The alien shoots a barb into his chest, the first step of its biological imperative.

Grant begins to act strangely, compulsively. He begins to hoard meat. He hides it from his too-hot-for-him wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks). He grows tendrils out of his chest. He decides he loves Starla too much to use them on her, so he sneaks out and uses them to impregnate another woman Brenda (Brenda James). The tendrils puncture Brenda's stomach and pumps her full of something disgusting. He then secrets Brenda away in the woods and feeds her raw, shredded animals.

Nathan Fillion plays the understated wise-acre police chief Bill Pardy, who also happens to have been Starla's high school sweetheart. He is tasked with leading the investigation into Brenda's disappearance. When he and his officers catch up to Grant, Grant has started to mutate something awful. When officers find Brenda, she has swollen to a barn-sized boulder of flesh that bursts open to release millions of slug like creatures who like to crawl in people's mouths, and turn them into hive-minded zombies.

It's all quite gross, bloody fun. Practical and computer-generated effects are well-integrated in bringing out all the gory details, but the slugs look a little fake.

Slither streams on Starz.