Rent Slugs (1988)

2.6 of 5 from 62 ratings
1h 29min
Rent Slugs (aka Slugs, muerte viscosa) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
They're abnormally large. They have four rows of teeth. There are millions of them, and they're all hungry. But these are no ordinary Slugs. When toxic waste contaminates their water system, these vicious creatures mutate into carnivorous killers that invade a small town. Soon, local drunks, kindly old gardeners, evil businessmen and horny teens all meet unspeakable and slimy deaths. Can the rampage be stopped before the entire community is devoured by this flesh-eating horror?
Actors:
, , , , , , John Battaglia, , Kris Mann, Kari Rose, , Andy Alsup, , Stan Schwartz, , Lucía Prado, , , Tammy Reger, Glen Greenberg
Directors:
Producers:
J.P. Simon, Francesca DeLaurentiis, José Antonio Escrivá
Writers:
José Antonio Escrivá, Ron Gantman, Shaun Hutson, Juan Piquer Simón
Aka:
Slugs, muerte viscosa
Studio:
Boulevard Entertainment
Genres:
Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Collections:
Films That Go Bump in the Night: All Hallows' Eve
Countries:
Spain
BBFC:
Release Date:
17/05/2010
Run Time:
90 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
NTSC
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/09/2016
Run Time:
89 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Audio commentary with Slugs author Shaun Hutson
  • Audio commentary with writer and filmmaker Chris Alexander
  • Here's Slugs in Your Eye - an interview with actor Emilio Linder
  • They Slime, They Ooze, They Kill: The Effects of Slugs - an interview with special effects artist Carlo De Marchis
  • Invasion USA - an interview with art director Gonzalo Gonzalo
  • The Lyons Den-an interviewand locations tour with production manager Larry Ann Evans
  • Trailer

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Reviews (2) of Slugs

Hold The Salt ! - Slugs review by Spoons

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07/02/2018

I worked in a video rental outlet through the whole of the 80's and was (and still am) a big horror movie buff. Slugs was one of a handful of films that slipped through the net which I never got round seeing. 30 years later I finally got round to seeing it. Was it worth it!!! Hell yes. It's a great little creature feature B movie with great gore FX and it manages to entertain throughout. Perfect late Friday night viewing.

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Poor creature feature - Slugs review by RP

Spoiler Alert
26/08/2015

I was watching the very poor 'Slither' a while ago which features slug-like creatures and I remembered a book by the British author Shaun Hutson called 'Slugs' and wondered if that had been filmed. Well it has, way back in 1988, the only one of his books to be filmed, so here I am watching it. And it is - of course - poor.

Shaun Hutson (aka 'the godfather of gore') is a prolific author of around 60 books including under a number of pseudonyms, mostly in the horror genre. Designed for a fast read, the prose is pithy and definitely non-intellectual, and there's always plenty of gore and gruesome imagery with a couple of explicit sex scenes thrown in for good measure. Apart from horror he has written a number of war books and even the novelisation of the excellent film 'The Terminator'. One of his first books was 'Slugs' and there's also a sequel, 'Breeding Ground'. Of its genre, it's escapist popular fiction, although British horror fiction books seem to be thin on the ground nowadays after the death of Frank Herbert.

The film of 'Slugs' has been shifted to the USA and filmed by a Spanish director and includes several Spanish actors whose lines are badly dubbed into English. The slugs themselves are slow-moving and not at all scary, so as a horror movie frankly it's a failure. There is a fair bit of gore, but the film is so badly scripted and the acting so wooden as to be embarrassing.

Apart from the setting, the film follows the book moderately closely - it just doesn't get 'under the skin' as it were in the same way as the book. It's poor, but isn't bad enough to make the 'so bad it's good' category.

I'll give it 2/5 stars, because I have seen even worse - and that includes the truly awful 'Slither'. A poor creature feature it may be, but it's miles better than that awful dross.

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