Starla Grant
Background
Starla Grant is a biology teacher at Earl Bassett Community School in Wheelsy, South Carolina. Her husband is Grant Grant. Starla grew up poor near St. Luke. Her mother left the family and her father was an alcoholic. Starla married Grant when she was 17. When she was 12 years old, her dream was to run away to Hollywood to become a movie star.
During the events of Slither (2006) played by Elizabeth Banks
After school ends, Hank is talking with Starla when Grant comes to get Starla and accuses Hank of trying to pick Starla up. At night Grant tries to have sex with Starla, but she tells him that she isn't in the mood and he angrily leaves. In the morning, Starla apologizes to Grant, who starts crying and they have sex. At work, Janene notices Starla is in a good mood and Starla tells her that Grant seemed different in a good way. Starla notices Grant has added a lock to the basement and he tells her it is because of a birthday surprise for her. Grant tells Starla that he has to go to work. At the Deer Cheer, Bill Pardy walks up to Starla and they awkwardly talk.
Starla goes home and finds Grant has physically changed and he tells her that he got stung by a bee and he already saw Dr. Karl. The next day Starla calls Dr. Karl and he tells her that he hasn't seen Grant in over a year. As Starla is driving home she notices a large amount of missing pet posters. Bill and Wally go to Starla's house and ask to see Grant. They tell her that Grant was last seen with Brenda Gutierrez who is now missing. Starla breaks into the basement and finds it full of flies and dead animals. She calls Bill's number and leaves a message. Grant sees her calling through the window and goes into the house and attacks her and attempts to infect her. Bill, Wally, Trevor and Margaret walk into the house and Grant runs away. Three days later, Bill has a meeting with the other officers, Jack MacReady, Charlie and Dwight. He tells them that he thinks Grant will next attack the Strutemyer property. Before they leave, Starla demands to go with them.
They drive to the Strutemyer property and wait for Grant. He eventually appears and kills a cow. Starla walks up to him and talks to him. Charlie points his gun at Grant and demands he show them where Brenda is and Grant uses a tentacle to cut him in half. Bill and the others start shooting at Grant and he slithers away. They follow him and end up at a barn where they find a severely enlarged Brenda. She tells Bill that she is hungry and then her body starts to tear apart and explodes. Thousands of worm-like things pour out of her. They go into the mouths of Wally, Trevor, Tourneur, and Dwight.
Bill tries to contact Shelby, but can't reach her. Starla, Jack and Margaret drag the bodies of Wally, Trevor, Tournier and Dwight out of the barn, and the bodies suddenly get up. Wally and the others start talking to Starla as if they are Grant. Trevor spits a yellow liquid onto Margaret which makes her skin burn and enlarge. Wally zombie threatens Starla and she shoots its head off and a worm comes out. Bill and Kylie Strutemyer see Starla and Jack being chased and Bill uses his vehicle to ram Trevor and Starla uses a T-Post to kill the Trevor zombie. Starla and Jack get into the car and Bill is able to get in contact with Shelby and she tells him that his mom called and said the toilet in the house was clogged from what he did the weekend before. Kylie tells them about what she saw when the worm attacked her. As they are driving back into town, they are rammed by a vehicle. Starla is dragged away by the zombie horde along with Jack, but Bill and Kylie manage to get away.
Starla wakes up on her bed and goes downstairs and sees a giant Grant mass. Diseased Grant 1, Diseased Grant 2, Diseased Grant 3, and Diseased Leader accuse Starla of being unfaithful and wanting to kill Grant. Starla apologizes and tells him that he doesn't have to be alone. She walks up to him and stabs him with a hair brush she had hidden. Grant then knocks her away. Bill and Kylie reach Grant and Starla and Bill tries to throw the grenade, but it is knocked out of his hand by Grant. He finds it again, but is knocked out of the house and it harmlessly explodes in the pool. Grant throws a couch at Kylie and knocks her to the wall. He extends his pincers and starts to impregnate Bill with one of them, but Bill manages to stick the other one into a propane tank and turns it on. Bill tells Starla to shoot Grant and she does and he explodes. All of the zombies fall to the ground and Starla and Kylie check on Bill and he pulls out the Grant tentacle. Kylie tells him both tentacles had to inject him for him to become impregnated and they walk out of the house and walk away.
