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Slugs, Muerte Viscosa
Slugs
Spain 1988
produced by Francesca DeLaurentiis, José Antonio Escrivá, Juan Piquer Simón for Dister Group
directed by Juan Piquer Simón
starring Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Alicia Moro, Santiago Álvarez, Concha Cuetos, John Battaglia, Emilio Linder, Kris Mann, Kari Rose, Manuel de Blas, Andy Alsup, Frank Braña, Stan Schwartz, Juan Maján, Lucía Prado, Patty Shepard, Miguel de Grandy, Tammy Reger, Glen Greenberg, Jay R. Ingerson, Harriet L. Stark, Toby Gold, Nazzareno Natale, Carla M. Fox, Isabel Prinz, Laura Notario, Daniel Johns, Kristin L. Kilian, Edward Trathen, Erik Swanson, Karen Landberg, Aníbal Blas, Laramie G. Evans, Nevada Killips, Larry Bornheimer, Wally Frazer
screenplay by José Antonio Escrivá, Ron Gantman, Shaun Hutson, based on the novel by Juan Piquer Simón, special effects by Carlo De Marchis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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People have died in bizarre ways in the small town of Ashton of late,
they were pretty much gnawed up (sometimes from the inside out) but ...
what exactly? Also, there's a slug invasion hitting and devastating the
many gardens of the suburban village that has only started recently ...
but surely these two events can't be connected, now could they? Well, of
course they are (as the title already suggests), since Ashton has been
build on a former toxic wase site, the slugs have mutated into
carnivourous beasts who travel through the sewage to get access to pretty
much everywhere and wreak havoc. But of course, city officials from the
mayor down refuse to even admit there's a slug problem, so it's up to
health inspector Mike (Michael Garfield), sewage inspector Don (Philip
MacHale) and scientist Foley (Santiago Álvarez) to take out the slugs on
their own turf, the sewage. But once they have arrived in the mutated
slugs' habitat, the sewage system, they have to realize they are not only
outnumbered (duh), they are maybe also outsmarted ... Truth to
be told, there's little that's original about Slugs, it freely
borrows from 1950s monster movies (Them
with its similar sewage-theme readily springs to mind) as do more recent
1970s animal horror shockers like Willard or Piranha,
without Slugs ever managing to reach the quality level of any of
these movies ... but this lack of aspiring for quality makes this film
actually rather endearing, a typical late 1980s horror shocker with no
artsy pretensions, made for the horror crowd who like their movies
formulaic, like plenty of gore and gruesomeness, and don't mind clichés
and an overly predictable story. This still doesn't make a good movie -
but let's face it, almost 30 years on it at least makes a great
retro-experience, with popcorns and beer being almost obligatory!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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