Was Jack a zombie at the end of SLiTHER?
No. In SLiTHER there are breeders and there are zombies. Grant infects people with his tubules, and they become swollen with his parasitic spawn. Those are breeders. That is what happens to Brenda when she becomes the big blob. This is also what’s going on with the fat people eating meat in the basement near the end of the film. They are still human, but with an unstoppable hunger for meat. All those people in the basement have swollen bellies because they’re in the initial stages of pregnancy. Because Jack is impregnated in the neck, that is where the worms first start growing. Other people in the movie are infected when the parasites burrow into their brains and begin driving them around. These people are extensions of the Grant monster’s consciousness. They cease to be who they formerly were at all (although they maintain those peoples memories, because they have access to their brains). To me it’s all very simple, but a lot of people get confused. I had more explanation in the movi
