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SLUGS

Slugs: muerte viscosa

1988 ES HMDB
February 5, 1988

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.

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Production: José Antonio Escrivá (Producer)Francesca DeLaurentiis (Producer)
Screenplay: Juan Piquer Simón (Writer)Ron Gantman (Screenplay)
Music: Tim Souster (Music)
Cinematography: Julio Bragado Darman (Director of Photography)

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Enrico Dal Pino
Jean Piquer Simon relies on a book by the splatter (punk?) writer Shaun Hutson to delight the audience with a film that, despite its questionable qualities, should be considered a cult-movie for its audience following and a kind of gore mythification it has had over the years. A very gory little story set against the backdrop of a typically stylish 80s colored city (one doesn't know why, but certain films have the faded charm of those years) that starts from a stereotype widely exploited in cinema of this genre (referring to beast-movies): radioactive waste - dump - terrifying mutation of an animal (in this case, slimy and slimy snails). Nothing new, therefore, from this point of view; Piquer decides to bet practically everything on the repulsive effects (incredible the one of the snail that comes out of the yuppie's mouth who is about to drink and the copulation of the couple that ends in a bloodbath) not straying from the type of cinema that suits him the most. For the rest, nothing exciting for this film that struggles between a mediocre screenplay with ridiculous and sometimes even comic dialogues and shots without highs.
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Wuchak

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7 /10

Perhaps the greatest film about killer slugs ever made

In a town north of the Finger Lakes in New York, mutated black slugs start preying on the populace. Michael Garfield plays the health inspector who sounds the alarm, but is ridiculed by authorities.

"Slugs" (1988) comes in the tradition of creature features from thirty years earlier about some kind of weird threat to an American town and how the inhabitants have to rise to the challenge to survive, such as “The Blob” and “Earth vs. the Spider.” This one, based on a book, uses a menace similar to “Squirm” (1976) with the cause of the havoc akin to “Prophecy” (1979) and “The Being” (1983). A Spanish production shot in the USA, the director is known for the slasher “Pieces” (1982).

While pretty obscure, I felt “Slugs” delivered the goods for this genre. It creates a good sense of the average town in the Northeast/Midwest. Michael Garfield is great as the masculine protagonist, along with his likable pal from sanitation (Philip MacHale). Meanwhile Kris Mann as Bobby is reminiscent of Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.

Highlights on the feminine front include Karen Landberg (opening scene), Kim Terry (Kim), Kari Rose (Donna) and Tammy Reger (Pam).

The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Lyons, which is located in north-central New York, a dozen miles north of the Finger Lakes.

GRADE: B/B-

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