Slugs (1987)

lester1/2jr · July 19, 2010, 11:11:04 AM

"Make it Stop!" I found myself bellowing at about the 1 hour mark. This movie stinks.

First let me just say something about the demented performance of the lead. There is something really wrong with him. I'm an easy grader when it comes to acting but he just blows his lines all over the place. It's like "dude cut re do the scene. wtf" Sometimes he adds stuff to his sentence that makes no sense like " we've come all this way to tell you... all right now what....these slugs eat meat" like Sarah Palin during the 08 presidential campaign. Other times he puts the wrong emphasis on words like " we've go to go OVER!.. to the tunnel"

Anyway... it's attack of the slugs!!! So what about the slugs : are they awesome? Do hot girls get chased and eaten by slugs? Unfortunately both slugs and girls are nothing special. They (the slugs) have little teeth you occasionally get to see and a toxic waste backstory and they're slimy and they are all over everything. They're also poisonous and can lay their eggs in you or something. This in your food/ stomach element is actually alot scarier than their seldom seen teeth and gives the movie it's best scene but the director mainly focuses on having shots of slugs on everything and occasionally someone going "aaigggh" and dies in the slugs. Dies of a million little slug bites

I can't remember much about the girls. There were some and one of them makes out with a guy at a thing and another goes home with one and they both exist to scream at their impending slug doom. They are not like hot b movie chicks they are whoever was available and not hideous. Really it's just mainly alot of slugs. There's not alot of special effects. also not alot of tension. They catch them and study them wihtout incident. Theres the thing where the mayor guy doesn't believe them, but it doesn't stop them from fighting the snails, I mean slugs.

Theres no inspired twists or imagination shown at all it's all very rote vhs horror.
some of the girls here and there are pretty but the only nudity I can recall was some guys butt. The pacing is really boring. This was probably made quickly so the director could make money to make something else. There are a couple alright gore scenes, the finale has a couple of explosions and was almost decent. I do not now have an inordinate fear of slugs. Visiting my mothers garden will be the same as it was before viewing this.

This girl in the opening scene here is really the best part of the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rJLb7_ww_8

You could make a decent series of clips with the funny acting and gore maybe enough for a sarcastic trailer that would wrongly make people want to see this half assed turkey but it would be in many ways wrong of you to
2/5

retrorussell · July 19, 2010, 09:34:46 PM

I agree that it's pretty bad. Mostly the out-of-place European cast and goofily dubbed voices is what gets the finger from me.
But I gotta give props for it being the most graphic nature vs. man movie I've ever seen. The part in the restaurant got me applauding, even though it looked like straw shooting out of his eye socket. I also liked how, instead of just falling backwards as he was bleeding profusely, he had to reach forward and pull the tablecloth with him first.
It also has one of the most immortal b-movie lines: "YOU DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DECLARE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

WTF?! LOL!

lester1/2jr · July 20, 2010, 08:58:00 AM

yeah the restaurant scene was good. I was really more freaked out by the them being in the guys stomach and in the food then when they were crawling on everything

Neville · July 23, 2010, 04:46:59 PM

Oh, the memories. This was one of the few films I rented on VHS but couldn't finish watching. I don't mind gore, but some scenes were just too disgusting. I saw most of it during a recent TV airing, found the dialogue as painful as the gore.

BTW, the actor who dies in the restaurant scene was for many years an anchorman in Telemadrid. I can imagine his acting making him the butt of jokes in the TV station very easily.

Jack · July 23, 2010, 05:01:04 PM

Not surprisingly, I remember the opening scene from that video, and absolutely nothing else about this movie.

claws · July 24, 2010, 12:53:55 AM

Works for me. One of the best in bad movies: 5/5

zombie no.one · July 24, 2010, 01:05:44 AM

never seen the film, but I've read the book, plus about 10 other books by Shaun Hutson. they are the most graphic (gore wise) books I've ever read.

skip to 2:10 to see what Shaun Hutson thinks of Slugs the movie, he's not too happy with it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GGi-SW5uQ

demon_dave · August 09, 2010, 11:44:49 AM

this is one bad movie my wife already owned before we met, it was a good gateway to get her into the depths of even worse B movies than this one.

voltron · August 09, 2010, 03:16:25 PM

Oh s**t, I LOVED this one when I was a kid. Rewatched it awhile back and it lost a some of it's charm, but I still found it to be entertaining. 3/5.

vukxfiles · August 19, 2010, 02:57:57 AM

I liked it, especially the scene with the teens having sex in a room full of the slugs. That was brutal.

Monster Jungle X-Ray · August 19, 2010, 07:08:06 AM

Quote from: DCA on July 24, 2010, 01:05:44 AM
never seen the film, but I've read the book, plus about 10 other books by Shaun Hutson. they are the most graphic (gore wise) books I've ever read.

skip to 2:10 to see what Shaun Hutson thinks of Slugs the movie, he's not too happy with it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GGi-SW5uQ

That was a very nice little interview, Vinnie Jones looks so young! I certainly recognize Johnathan Ross from The Incredibly Strange Film Show series that used to come on cable round 20 years ago. That was my favorite series that explored underground filmakers, and first introduced me to Asian horror.

Slugs (1987)

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