Slugs (1988)

Very best movie i ever watch

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Blistering performances.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Toxic-mutated, man-eating slugs descend upon a small US town, consuming everything human in their path. The town's health inspector, Mike Brady (Michael Garfield), is convinced by the threat, but even as the body count multiplies, the mayor and his businessman cronies won't listen. It's up to Brady to find a solution to end the slaughter and save the town. Shifting the action from Shaun Hutson's Britain-set novel, "Pieces" filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón writes and directs, following formula all the way. I mean, the hero is virtually named Chief Brody and the upstanding-professional-versus-blinkered-authority schtick was done miles better in Steven Spielberg's Jaws 13 years earlier. "What'll it be next," scoffs the sheriff, "demented crickets?" He's got a point. Convincing the authorities that there's a shark in the water is a far cry from carnivorous gastropods. But the premise actually works okay – its inherent silliness is a reasonable argument for scepticism, after all. Slugs: The Movie (to give it its full title) is dumb as hell but not without merit. It's well made and swiftly paced, and there's just enough characterisation to make you care about the community under threat (even if those characters tend to be identified by a single feature: she's a drinker; he's an Englishman etc). The special make-up effects are good, gradually ramping up in grossness. These little bastards are mean, happy to munch the flesh and the eyes off their victims. There are hints of the Piranha movies in the creatures' swarming nature (although the quality of filmmaking is a step up from James Cameron's cack-handed sequel). But a more appropriate comparison might be Fred Dekker's equally squirmy Night of the Creeps, which two years prior did a better job of embracing the camp 50s monster movie vibe.While there are probably too many scenes involving people walking into offices and receiving phone messages (if ever there was a movie to be fundamentally altered by cell phones, it's this), the narrative structure is solid, and decent production values allow for a surprisingly exciting and large scale ending – even if Brady's final plan is preposterously reckless.Slugs delivers few surprises, simply transposing its icky threat into a stock plot for a genre not used to posing such slow-moving threats. But it's fun and disgusting and worth a go for the post-pub slot in the run-up to Halloween.

"Slugs", directed by the same man who brought the world the classic slasher flick "Pieces", as well as memorable MST3K fodder "The Pod People" falls somewhere in between both. Surprisingly gory and even a little sleazy, this movie definitely doesn't lack in entertainment value.The age old tale of radiation mutating a species, in this case, slugs is the name of the game here. The film pulls no punches and slugs start eating the flesh off people from the get go, with TONS of blood sprays throughout. The acting is some of the worst I've seen in a while, especially the sheriff (and I've seen some TERRIBLE sheriffs), although the unintentionally brilliant and hilarious one liners more than make up for it. The scene in the restaurant is anticipated highly and is probably my favorite, as you know exactly what is going to happen at least 20 minutes before. It does not disappoint, and really, neither does much of the movie. The Halloween party sub plot though is utterly useless, especially the weak attempted rape, and detracts from the otherwise pretty linear plot."Slugs" is somewhat of a hidden gem, and anyone into extreme gore, anthropods, nudity, or a combination of all three will find it to be fun from start to finish.

It's a monster film's homage with lots of man-eaters slugs and loads of blood , including revolting , repulsive scenes. This chiller with middling budget packs thrills, chills , some good action , gore , horror and few funny moments. It's a hybrid of monster movies from the 50s and modern American production in B series style . People are dying mysteriously and terrifyingly , and nobody has a track what the cause is . Only health inspector named Mike Brady (Michael Garfield) finds a possible origin , but his theory of murderous slugs is laughed at by the authorities . When his wife named Kim (Kim Terry) is attacked , he discovers that spilled toxic waste is being helpfully cleaned up by the slug population and causing countless deaths . Only when the slugs are mutating into blood-thirsty man eaters and the body count begins to rise , the police goes into the action . A slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begins to think Mike had the right idea after all.This humdrum adaptation based on Monster movies from the 50s results to be a special version based on the bestseller titled ¨Slugs¨ by Shaun Hutson with screenplay written by also producer José Antonio Escrivá , Ron Gantman , and the same director Juan Piquer Simón (as J.P. Simon) . The thrilling screenplay is a bit yawn-inspiring but nifty special effects will keep you from dozing off , its author is Emilio Ruiz , he's a nice creature effects designer, a perfect craftsman who made effects , monsters , miniature and matte shots in ¨Pan's labyrinth ,The Devil backbone , Dune , Conan , Cat's eye¨ and many others . There're gruesome killings , rip-roaring action , thrills , chills and results to be briefly entertaining . Plenty of repellent images , it was X classified in England and was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded . Average main cast with unknown actors as Michael Garfield and Kim Terry . There appears usual secondary actors seen in co-productions of the 60s and 70s , Spaghetti and Terror genre , as Frank Braña , Manuel De Blas and Patty Shepard . It's a slight fun with acceptable special effects by Emilio Ruiz Del Rio supported by Benito Cortijo and Juan Mirame , passable set decoration , functional art direction and none use of computer generator . The slugs monsters are the real stars of this production , being rightly realized , some of them are authentic Asturias (Spain) slugs and others are made by plastic miniature ; it has numerous "older technique" special effects such as matte paintings, rubber-suited monsters, Piquer uses the standard film technique of reverse-footage to create certain effects .The fable is silly and laughable ,though the effects and action are professionally made . Among the most spectacular of its visuals there are some deeply shrouded caverns , several monsters roaring menacingly towards the camera , the colorful backgrounds of the sewers and slaughters and massacres committed by the horrible slugs . On the whole this is a suspenseful and tense thriller especially at the amazing ending tableau when Michael Garfield and his helper have to tackle the massive slugs at the lair in the final . Some scenes are clumsily shot but the movie has some good moments here and there . Some illogical parts in the argument are more than compensated for the excitement provided by the slugs , though sometimes are a little bit cheesy . Highlights of the story includes a roller-coaster ending , some terrifying frames in a restaurant and many others . Functional cinematography by Julio Bragado , being filmed the interiors in Madrid and exteriors in Lyon , (New York) , a population about 5.000 inhabitants . The motion picture was middlingly realized by Juan Piquer Simon . Piquer who recently passed away was a good craftsman , he owns his own studio and created and/or designed many of the simple special effects sequences you see in any of his many imaginative undertakings . Juan who was director of the Mostra of Valencia (Spain) , displayed a professional career and specialized on all kind of genres as Terror (Slugs, Piezes , Cthulhu ) and Sci-fi (The rift , The new Extraterrestres, Supersonic man) and made some adaptations about Jules Verne novels ("Fabulous Journey to the Center of the Earth" , "Mystery on Monster Island") . While his films have been universally panned by the prestigious reviewers, they have a kind of quality that must be endured to be fully appreciated .

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a movie is simply just bad or if it's deliberately being bad and silly and very self-aware. I think that in this case the movie knew what it was doing. It knew it was going to be bad, so it simply decided to go and have some fun with it while they were at it. And I must say it really paid off. As bad and silly as this movie gets at times, it remains a perfectly fun and entertaining watch.It's listed as an horror but it could so easily be seen as a comedy as well. It goes over-the-top with its action, horror as well as its acting. It's therefore already quite hard to take this movie very serious in the first place.But it's not like the concept is making the movie any more believable. Killer slugs...that does not sound like the most scary or credible movie 'monsters', now does it. And of course they aren't but it does provide the movie with some excuses to come up with plenty of creative killings, that also are extremely gory at times.Never knew your head could blow up, once you swallowed a slug but according to this movie that is the case. It should tell you something about the stuff this movie comes up with at times and how incredibly random, over-the-top and just plain silly things can get at times. And yes, also gory, although it's still not exactly remotely the most gory genre movie I have ever. The movie does has a couple of good moments but it seems to got restrained by their budget to go truly all out.It was an American/Spanish co-production, which already is quite an odd thing on its own. It also means that the movie is filled with plenty of Spanish actors, who either got dubbed or are speaking English with a very thick accent.So the acting is also most definitely not the most impressive thing about this movie but so aren't its characters. It's a bit disappointing that the movie is not really having a good main character in it. The movie is focusing on far too many characters, that too often don't even add anything to the story at all. They are just in it to get killed or nude at one point, or a combination of these two things.As far as, deliberately bad or not, horror movies go, this one really isn't that bad. I at least had plenty of fun with it!6/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/