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Contents.Mary Katherine (M.K.). from trailer; voice-over My dad always told me stories about a hidden world where brave warriors watch over and protect us. to Nim I'm not from this world. to Bomba You have bat sounds in your I-pod? Why?. repeated line Ozzy, no kisses. to Nod Hi.
Slugs is a fun B movie about killer meat eating Slugs. The film should be viewed by every horror fan that enjoys nature gone wild films. Though it has a very silly premise, Slugs doesn't disappoint.
Yeah. It's a mouse!. They're not attacking.
They're just. Blocking out the moon.Professor Bomba. to his daughter Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it's not there. from trailer I have to find my daughter!. in slow motion OW!!! I hurt my elbow!. to M.K when playing sounds Isn't that cool?.
in slow motion when discovering Moonhaven It's so beautiful!Larry. That's not a house, it's termites holding hands. When seeing a boggan fall to the taxi's window Woah, incoming!Nod. to M.K. C'mon!
You're with us now!. to M.K. Hey, I'm Nod by the way. to M.K. Out! Jump OUT!Ronin. from trailer If our world dies, your world will die too.
to M.K. You're riding with me, to Nod you're with the slugs.
to Queen Tara during a Boggan ambush Your majesty, get to the barge!Queen Tara. from trailer You're here for a reason. Sometimes the connections aren't clear, but they're always there.Mandrake. from trailer The forest belongs to the darkness.
from trailer I'm going to destroy the forest. But I'm the only going to do it once, so try to pay attention. to Dagda That's the spirit!.
to Ronin before hurting him When I leave you for dead, you'll stay That WAY!!!. last words What's that little saying you people have. Lots of leaves.something, something very inspiring. Cause in the end every leaf falls and dies alone!. That idiot general was my son! Shut up!Mub. to M.K.
What's going on, baby girl?. Actually, he's a snail. No shell over her baby, it's slows me down.Grub.
Aw, COME ON!Bufo. deleted line All bets are off.
Oh, look, it's Ronin, defender of the weak. Pooper of parties.
Here to ruin the fun.Dialogue Bomba: I don't know how much your mother told you about my work. Mary Katherine: Um, she. Just that you have a delusional belief in an advanced society of tiny people living in the woods. Well, it ruined your career. Not to mention your marriage. Bomba looks at her with a hurt expression Or something.Mary Katherine: Talking snails.
Mub: referring to Grub Actually, he's a snail. No shell over here, baby.
It just slows me down.Mary Katherine: Who are you people? Ronin: We are the Leafmen, protectors of the forest.
Bufo's goons are beating up Nod after he goes back on a deal. Nod: Is that the best you got? Goon: punches Nod really hard How's that? Nod: weakly Better. Bufo: Nod, you know I like you.
Nod: Yeah, I like you too, Mr. Bufo: And yet, you don't do what we agreed. We agreed that you would lose, but then you win.
Nod: Now, I can't help it if I'm fast. You want me to lose, you got to give me some better competition. Bufo: It's called teamwork. Maybe if you understood that, the Leafmen wouldn't have kicked you out. Nod: They did not kick me out! Bufo: chuckles I admire your independent spirit, Nod. to his goons Feed him to something.
A snake would be good. Ronin: appears Nah, snakes just swallow you whole. Now if you put him in a hornet's nest, that's a show. Bufo: Oh, look, it's Ronin, defender of the weak, pooper of parties, here to ruin the fun. gestures for his goons to let Nod go Ronin: I didn't ruin all of it.
I let you hit him. Nod: annoyed Twice! Ronin: to Bufo Hop along now, little froggie. Bufo: Easy, Ronin.
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It's a big forest out there. Even Leafmen gotta sleep.Bufo: Hey, if this is a bad time, I can come back when you're done gardening. Mandrake's guard pokes him Oh! Mandrake: I imagine you're wondering why I invited you here.
Bufo: I was frog-marched here at spear point. Mandrake's guard pokes him again Ah! How is that 'invited'? Mandrake: shrugs I let you keep your legs. Bufo: chuckles Comedy.
Funny psychopath. Mandrake: There are rumors that the Leafman Ronin was at your place of business, and that he may have rescued a royal pod. Bufo: chuckles Real smooth. You got rid of the queen, but let her pod get away. chuckles Plus your idiot general gets himself mulched.
Mandrake: angry That idiot general. shouting WAS MY SON! He destroys a tree, frightening Bufo Bufo: stuttering Uh, of course he was.
He had your good looks, and your healthy grey complexion, and forgiving nature. Mandrake: Shut up! What's it gonna be, Bufo? Are you gonna talk, or are you gonna croak? Bufo whimpers Where are they taking the pod?
from trailer Nod: What happened? You got shrunk? Mary Katherine: Yes! Nod: Seriously? Ronin: It's been a weird day for everybody. from trailer Mandrake: You just can't stop the rot.
Mub: Ugly says 'What?' Mandrake: What? Mub: Nothing. snickers along with Grub M.K. And Nod have just escaped a Boggan attack Mary Katherine: What was that thing?! Nod: What, you've never seen a Boggan? Someone had a happy childhood.Mary Katherine: Dad?
I had the most messed-up dream. There were talking slugs and tiny little soldiers and- gasps Grub: Hello! Mary Katherine: Aw, man! After Mandrake captures Mub and Grub with the pod, Ronin blames Nod for letting them escape and he puts his foot down Ronin: angrliy, pushing Nod into the wall Stay with the Pod, that's all you Have to do. Nod: Yeah, but I just thought if. Ronin: Do you ever think about anyone besides yourself?!. Mary Katherine: It wasn't all his fault!
Ronin:And You! I expected as much from him. But I thought you would know better.
Nod: We're really sorry, okay? Ronin: I don't want to hear it. That was the last part of the queen that I h-. That any of us will ever have. walks away At the Boggan headquarters, after Mub, Grub, and the pod have been kidnapped Mandrake: My son was born on a night like this.
These were his baby fangs. And here's the first skin he ever molted. He was big for a larva. He took after his mother.
Mub: whines Oh, your stories are boring and tortureous! Mandrake: The Leafmen took him from me! So I took something of theirs.
It's basic etiquette. An eye pokes Grub's eye for an eye. pokes Mub's eye Mub: Jerk! Mandrake: Your pod will bloom here.
And when the pod blooms in darkness, it belongs to the darkness. I'll destroy the forest with the very thing you hoped would save it. Mub and Grub laugh Grub: I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't say that in the scrolls! Mandrake: It does in the part I have.
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shows the piece of scroll that he took from Nim's tree Mub and Grub: D'oh!Nim Galuu: Let's see. Moonlight comes in here, moves along here, reaches the pod here. At the moon's highest peak, only time it can bloom. Grub: Do you know what this means? Mud: We single-handedly saved the forest!
Nod: So, when the pod opens, what happens to you? Mary Katherine: I think I go home. Nod: Well, I. I guess this is. Mary Katherine: Yeah, I guess it is.
Grub: Mandrake's bats! Mary Katherine: They're not attacking. They're just. Blocking out the moon. from trailer Nod: referring to Bomba This guy's been crashing around the forest for years. Mary Katherine: He's my dad!
Ronin: You're kidding. Nod laughs; Mary Katherine shoves him in frustration You're not kidding.Mary Katherine: as she is being pulled away from Nod as she starts to grow What's happening? Nim Galuu: points to Tara's successor A queen brought you here. How about a queen send you back?
Flower Kid: last lines, as she concentrates on using her new found powers Ummm. It's Working! Taglines. Discover a world beyond your imagination. Prepare for something epic. From the creators of and.
Epic Hero. Epic Courage.
Epic Adventure. (Bus stop poster) Bat To the BoneCast. as Mary Katherine (a.k.a. M.K.). as Nod. as Ronin. as Queen Tara.
as Mandrake. as Mub. as Grub.
as Bufo. as Professor Bomba. as Nim Galuu. as Dagda. as Larry.
as Finn. as Girl. as Marigold Girl's Mother. as Race. as Roller Derby Girl. as Biker Dude. Kelly Keaton as Lady.
Joe Massingill as Stickman Jockey. Jason Fricchione as Bufo's Goon. as Jinn.
Helen Hong as Lady. as Jinn. Allison Bills as Dandelion Jinn. as Jinn. Allison Weber as Flower Kid. Anthony Lumia as Fruit Fly (young).
Todd Cummings as Fruit Fly (old)External links.
From Juan Piquer Simon, the late, great director who also blessed genre fans with such unforgettable gems as 'Pieces' and 'Pod People', comes this ode to those slimy little animals, who have mutated and become carnivorous thanks to that old cinematic standby, toxic waste. The monsters start claiming victim after victim, and only a select few individuals are willing to do anything about the problem, including County Health Inspector Mike Brady (Michael Garfield). Based on a novel by Shaun Hutson, and scripted by Ron Gantman, this movie is delicious.really. Who can see the scene with the lettuce and not feel hungry? 'Slugs: The Movie' (named this way to avoid confusion with 'Slugs: The Musical'?) is such good fun, and when watching it, it's hard to believe that Gantman, Simon, and company didn't have their tongues in their cheeks the whole time, what with the unrelenting delivery of so much priceless dialogue ('You ain't got the authority to declare Happy Birthday, not in this town!' ) and performances. They also show their willingness to cast aside expectations in terms of one scene late in the game involving an attempted rape.
One memorable sequence features two young lovers who get besieged by the titular killers, and the male of the pair quite prominently displays his backside for the camera. Of course, if you want a true highlight sequence, it has to be the one in the restaurant with the VERY unlucky David Watson (Emilio Linder), which is so very appropriately timed. The gore and effects are quite fun to watch in this thing, and they're the work of Carlo De Marchis. The actors are all a hoot, especially Santiago Alvarez as John Foley, John Battaglia as Sheriff Reese, and prolific veteran Spanish actor Frank Brana in a brief cameo appearance.
Horror fans whose tastes include the silly & cheesy 80s material are sure to find this a real treat, right from its amusing beginning to its impressive conclusion where a lot of things blow up REAL good. It's 90 minutes worth of engaging nonsense. Eight out of 10. Juan Piper Simon, that dependably shameless Spanish schlock shocker expert who blessed us with the staggeringly sleazy collegiate slasher swill 'Pieces' and the horrendously lame pseudo-Lovecraft loser 'Cthulhu Mansion,' really outdoes himself with this flamboyantly foul, slimy, gore-soaked, grue-drenched, hell, flat-out outrageously splatteriffic bastardization of Shaun Hutson's sensationally squalid best-selling novel. A mutant strain of your average inveterate garden pests develop an insatiable craving for human flesh and subsequently start snacking on the deserving dipstick denizens of a heretofore dreary and uneventful snobby upstate New York suburb. The plot's every bit as trite and predictable as the above synopsis suggests.
The cardboard cut-out characters are dull and nondescript. The performances from an uniformly atrocious cast are wooden enough to give your DVD player the TV equivalent to Dutch Elm disease. The dubbing simply stinks. Both the script and direction are very plodding and inept. However, the profoundly uncomfortable sense of unceasing, stomach-knotting vileness which permeates every last fetid frame of this gross, grimy, hideously ghastly fright flick makes it perversely enjoyable just the same. And the extravagantly gory'n'grody slug attack scenes certainly make this putrid picture a top-rate trashy winner.
A poor handyman has to hack off his own hand with a hatchet after a slug crawls into his work glove. Another hapless fellow inadvertently eats a slug that somehow wound up in his salad (!) which later causes the guy's nose to bleed profusely into a glass of water and baby slugs to explode forth from his eyes. Two horny teens furiously fornicating their sweaty socks off get chomped in the nastiest example of celluloid coitus interruptus you are ever likely to witness in a killer mankind-munching carnivorous slug flick.
Moreover, another little girl also gets graphically devoured and one luckless dude even falls into a sewer full of the murderous mollusks. Sure, this movie possesses no redeemable artistic attributes to speak of (and frankly who really cares about that pretentious high-falutin' nonsense?), but it's definitely so laughably bad and shoddy (not to mention downright ridiculous) that it overall cuts it as a good deal of righteously gruesome and lovably ludicrous cheeseball creature feature fun. Why isn't Juan Piquer Simon celebrated for the repulsive cinematic magic he has created? No only did he makes 'Slugs', he made 'Pieces', too, and even took a crack at Jules Verne's 'Journey To The Center of the Earth'. I read Shaun Hutson's 'Slugs' long before I experienced the movie, and I even read the sequel, 'Breeding Ground', before seeing the movie. In three words, it is thoroughly disgusting entertainment, with echoes of Jeff Lieberman's great 'Squirm'.
The Spanish/Mexican blending of scenes doesn't really work, but who cares? The film, like any Ed Wood or Rene Cardona film, is entertaining. The slug attacks are gory and unrestrained and Simon's direction of the little critters is better than his direction of the actors. The movie 'Slugs' is unique because the titular vermin are actually the good guys in this horrific tale of nature gone awry.
You see, these poor slugs have been mutated through the pollution of evil humans and don't mean to do anything malicious, they're just slugs- slugs with sharp teeth who eat flesh and excrete poison, but slugs none the less. The real bad guys are the humans, who either actively try to destroy our beloved slugs, or overreact when they encounter them. For example, take the scene where the guy puts on the glove full of slugs. They were just hanging out in a comfortable work glove when out of nowhere this giant hand came at them, and they reacted instinctively, defending themselves and biting the guy.
Now, instead of seeking medical attention for his slug bite, this guy runs around his greenhouse screaming like an idiot, spills some highly volatile chemicals, starts a fire, knocks a bookcase over on himself, and cuts off his own hand- then the fire and volatile chemicals mix and his house explodes. How can you blame that on the slugs? This movie paints a portrait of humans that is less than favorable. The characters in this movie include the dumb sheriff who hates everybody, the drunk hick who's mean to his dog, and the lumpy sidekick whose wife is at least forty-five years older than him. There's also a set of drunken teens that get attacked while copulating, and we have to see the skinny long-haired freaks' genitals.
Meanwhile, there's a guy who looks like a demonic Leslie Neilson who yells 'You don't have the authority to declare happy birthday!' For some reason. Finally, this parade of loathsomeness is rounded out by the guy from the MST3K classic 'Pod People' whose face explodes after eating a slug-laces salad (another easily avoided fate blamed on the helpful, harmless slugs). Humans are portrayed as greedy, stupid, racist, alcoholic, and, in one pointless scene, as would-be rapists. In the movie's climactic scene, the villainous humans try to burn the slugs who are cowering helplessly in the sewers, Well, since they're idiots, the humans succeed in BLOWING UP THE ENTIRE TOWN. They alone do more damage than the slugs ever did!
If you hate humans, and I know I do, you'll appreciate 'Slugs'. If you're a fan of bad cinema, you'll also appreciate this crapfest from the director of 'Pieces' and 'Pod People'. There's enough bad acting, silly dialog, illogical plot twists, lame special effects, pointless scenes, and poor dubbing to hold your attention.SPOILER ALERT.SPOILER ALERT. You're probably wondering how they could make a giant slug movie scary. Well, rest assured, they didn't. You see, slugs are slugs. There is nothing scary about a squishy, slow moving, five inch slug.
So to make up for the lack of fear caused by a slug, the filmmakers went for gore and sleaze. Works for me!
I never imagined that slugs could be so destructive. How shortsighted I was.
'Slugs' surprised me with its bloodshed level. 'Slugs' is not a scary movie but they did the best they could with what they had. What they had were slugs. I enjoyed it.
My favorite scene was.EXPLOITATION SCENE SPOILER. the sex scene. As the young couple was grinding away, the slug army massed on the bedroom floor. The naked girl falls onto the floor, rolling and screaming in pain amongst the slugs. See a bloody naked woman roll around with carnivorous slugs! Scream in ecstasy! Another triumph for B-movies!
Juan Piquer Simon is a director who doesn't have much to brag about. The majority of his films have been relatively bad and show no true sense of authenticity. Yet for a movie like this, even though it still isn't a great movie, it seems like a little more time and care went into producing it. Based on a novel with the same name by Shaun Hutson, Slugs is about a breed of killer gastropods that acquire an appetite for human flesh.
Those are the main characters here. The actors that play their parts are OK but they are nothing to be remembered. This movie has almost the same characteristic as Fright Night but nowhere as entertaining. The lead role belongs to a town man who suspects that there is a specific reason to why people are being killed in such horrific manners, and nobody believes him. The acting isn't that good either. Yes they act, but there are times where it's weird and doesn't sound normal to say.
There are two parts to the death scenes. One part is good, and the other, improbable. The improbable part is that many times during death scenes victims will struggle and won't be able to resist the power of the slug. People get dragged away, while others get pulled down; are the slugs really that strong? These slugs are supposed to be supernatural so they have to have some other mutation besides teeth. The good part to the death scenes is that there is plenty of blood. No doubt will gore hounds get their fill.
And although the scenes are predictable, it's still good to watch. What surprised me the most was the volume of slugs that were used for the movie. And it's not like they were prop slugs either. This was live footage of hoards of slugs! Some of these scenes were inside houses too; could you image the mess that had to be cleaned up afterward?
I'm sure people are fine with cleaning up fake blood, but real slug ooze? The sound that was added to the slugs was a nice addition too. Much of it sounds thick and gooey, just how slugs should sound!
The sound and special effects department must've worked hard for this because this was the strong element of the film. And that's good too because after all, this is a horror flick! Tim Souster, the composer of the music, had a good feel for what he was doing too. It actually retained some pitch from what used to be 1950's horror movies with its constant base line of brass and screaming string instruments. Not really effective in creating fear, but nostalgic to say the least.
This is one of the very few films that director Simon did with a little more effort. The dialog is weird but the sheer magnitude of live slugs that were used should grab the viewer's attention quite nicely. Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community. Believe it or not, the story behind the screenplay started as a book.
In the original novel, the titular slugs were not caused by radiation or any such thing, but actually on author Shaun Hutson's knowledge that there were three species of carnivorous slugs. (The book's success apparently was enough to get the author the gig to write 'The Terminator' novelization.) If you love the late J. Simon's 'Pieces' (a true cult classic if ever there was one), you may also love 'Slugs'. It has some of the same great things going for it: incredible special effects on the gore, a great 1980s mentality and some of the worst dialogue ever to hit a screen near you (which may be due to the fact that the actors are not proficient in English). The film is best enjoyed by taking it as not seriously as possible. I mean, thousands of slugs that come and go in unison, eat people and apparently have the ability to plan ahead?
Not very plausible. A high school teacher who has his own lab for experiments? But I personally love this movie. I think it is so unbelievable that it is just perfect for a good film with friends, some Tootsie Rolls and a soda. And if you have the legendary horror historian Jon Kitley lurking around making slug-shaped chocolates, that just tops it off. This Spanish film made in America featuring Italian actors is a must-see.
The Arrow Video Blu-ray is jam-packed. We have audio commentaries with 'Slugs' author Shaun Hutson and filmmaker Chris Alexander.
The Hutson commentary is interesting in that he never actually met any of the film's producers, actors or director, so the focus there is much more on horror literature. There are also new interviews with actor Emilio Linder, special effects artist Carlo DeMarchis, art director Gonzalo Gonzalo and production manager Larry Ann Evans. The last one, with Evans, is really very insightful and tells you more stories about the making of the film than you're likely to hear anywhere else. A movie about killer slugs? Yet still not even close to the weirdest film I've seen lately.
Slugs tells the story of a new breed of carnivorous slug that besieges a small town and the people stepping up to combat them. As ridiculous as the concept sounds the execution makes it really quite convincing and the movie is not for the faint of heart. With some very grisly effects, a lot of gore and that squirming under your skin vibe I was impressed how they made slugs a legitimate seeming threat. Though the movie is entertaining it's sadly not without its flaws, the soundtrack is ridiculous and would be at home in a 70's sitcom but not a serious horror movie like this.
Credit where credit is due the folks behind Slugs did a great job considering the subject material, but make no mistake this is the very definition of B-movie. The Good: Effects are quite decent Has aged remarkably well The Bad: Concept is still a stretch Music doesn't fit the movie at all Things I Learnt From This Movie: Slugs are just homeless snails, maybe that's why they were so mad. When there's nothing else on TV you resort to watching movies like this and get pleasantly surprised.
Slugs is about flesh eating slugs. Yes it sounds weird but it's actually quite creepy. Especially that noise they make. The acting is very bland and a bit cheesy in places but the stupid story line makes up for it. Most film makers seem to have an interest in killer bugs now and slugs is quite a good idea since slugs are things that every person seems to hate more than insects that can actually hurt us. So don't pass this by maybe give it a small watch and see what you think. 'Slugs' is the kind of movie that you watch with a group of people so you can make fun of it.
It is not well acted, well scripted or well cast. Something is turning garden slugs into nasty man eaters. A local health inspector decides to get to the bottom of things, even if that means going down to the sewers. This film really is bad! It has a cast that has no idea if they are from America or Spanish, including a naked Sammy Hagar look-a-like.
It has some very nasty scenes which will put you off salad eating for a few years. Team that with gratuitous sex and animals and people being devoured by slugs and you have the movie. Check out the great shot of the slug with fangs.?????.CONTAINS SPOILERS.-'Slugs' was a film that really moved me. It was a punch in the face that suddenly woke the part of my psyche that enjoyed pain. There was such gore, such blood, such human suffering and I found myself loving it. The scene in the restaurant where the man having a salad infested with blood-flukes and is suddenly attacked from within, his innerts shooting sky-high out of his body to the horror of the screaming patrons was just golden. And the scene where the investigators discover the partially skeletonized body had a charm to it knowing that it was slugs that had slowly killed this man, reducing him to a cherry-red meat-puppet with naked eyeballs.
But the best scene of all was when the naughty couple looked down from the bed upon which they were having un-Christian relations to discover the floor of the bedroom covered in deadly slugs! The girl falls haplessly into certain death and screams as the gastropods devour her flesh, her partially eaten self begging the terrified boyfriend for help until he finally falls into the same fate. By that time, this movie had corrupted me to the point where I had to keep rewinding that scene over and over. And I love how they finally kill all of the slugs at the very end, but I wont ruin it for you. I would like to leave the opportunity open for the reader to be as corrupted as I was by 'SLUGS'. This movie seems like it would be a load of freshly graded cheese.
I mean killer mutant slugs that stalk the sewers of a small town does not sound like a Grade A script. In fact, I had doubts that it could even a funny bad movie could come from this premise. However, I was greatly surprised. This was a funny, well-done movie.
It had great special effects, decent acting, and effective direction. Sure it was still goofy, but in a very enjoyable way. This is a movie in the tradition of Tremors, Anaconda, and the old sci-fi mutant monster movies of the 50's. However the gore level is pretty high and it has made me a bit more afraid of my toilet.
Overall I thought it was 'just too sweet'! I'll give it a 9 1/2 for 10! The premise behind Slugs sounds ultra cheesy - mutated killer slugs. But it actually turns out to be quite fun and better than any regular 'nature-run-amock' horror flick. I was expecting another god awful cheesy, campy bug movie along the lines of Ticks or Skeeter. In other words, I didn't expect anything good at all, who would ever be scared of a slug? I mean, it is one of the slowest creatures in the world after all!
Imagine my surprise then, when I found that not only is this movie not that bad, but. It is actually pretty damn entertaining and good! Actually, the best word to describe Slugs is FUN! Sure, it's pretty damn cheesy and the general idea is pretty laughable, but with the delivery, Slugs actually turned into a decent little horror movie. Not only that, but it does even manage to.ahem, get under your skin a bit. Plus, for those gore hounds out there, there's a ton of that as well.
This is a very highly rated horror from the 80's, a fantastic movie with a well paced out plot and a great budget for effects, a good cast and an erratic tension building soundtrack, you wouldn't think slugs could be scary but they are now, only in the 80's could they get away with a creature feature like this, its chock full of amazing effects, plenty of marvelous stand out bloody gore moments throughout, if you're big on 80's horror then this is a must have! Overall rating: 7 out of 10. Here's an example of that rarity, an enjoyable late '80s horror film. This is B-grade film-making at its finest, with a derivative monster movie script which harks back to the late-night classics of the 1950s but with lots of added gore and general gruesomeness to shock and disgust modern, jaded audiences in equal measure. Of course, the film is easy to watch because it strikes the right balance between being campy and serious, and I guess it's impossible to make a totally serious film when killer slugs are your main ingredient. I quite liked the depiction of small town suburban America in this movie.
Ironic, as it was actually made in Spain with a half-Spanish cast. The characters are developed before being messily dispatched and despite lots of trite dialogue, you end up caring for the people involved. Another thing to enjoy is the old-fashioned over-the-top score which really dramatises the slug attacks, and almost makes them believable. There's an almost palpable sense of impending danger at the film's climax as our two have-a-go heroes attempt to dispel the threat by literally blowing up the town's sewer system with a chemical concoction. Spanish director Juan Piquer Simon's direction is always interesting and keeps the action moving at a fast speed, making this a fun film to sit through.
Right from the beginning as the mystery thickens there is no slowness in the build-up of the tale as with similar monster flicks, it's entertaining and watchable right from the start. The acting is generally good with some memorable characters popping up (the weird British scientist, the crazy mayor) and strong performances from the two leading guys. Another thing I loved was the excessive, gratuitously slimy slug attacks which really go over the top. In one scene a gardener finds a slug inside his glove and is forced to lop off his hand with a hatchet before his greenhouse explodes! It has to be seen to be believed. The film's most infamous moment sees a loving naked couple get bloodily dispatched by rampaging slugs which invade their bedroom and isn't for the squeamish. Other highlights include lots of shots of writhing, fat, slimy slugs, plenty of mutilated bloody corpses and a disgusting highlight of a man's head bursting apart and loads of parasitic worms flying from the eye sockets.
It may be silly and sometimes juvenile but when it comes to the slug attacks the film delivers what you could hope from the title. Obviously a suspension of disbelief is required, i.e. In scenes of slugs dragging away the corpses to their lair. Imagine the kind of power these creatures would need to be able to drag a body mass hundreds of times larger than their own and the dynamics of such an operation and you'll realise just how untrue it is. However, in all SLUGS: THE MOVIE is just about all a fan could hope and expect from a B-grade horror film about killer slugs and therefore it gets a thumb up from me.
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