realityinmind Pieces was way better. Waaaaay better. There is no horror in this movie. Who can be afraid of slugs? I almost think this was a joke. It is very ironic that everyone is frantic about killer slugs and rushing to exterminate them, when they move sooo slooow. Every death in this movie was avoidable. Everyone killed themselves basically. The gore isn't all that either. You can clearly tell some of the people are actually crash test dummies, unlike in Pieces where the people were actually pigs. There are a couple good scenes, such as when the teenage girl is fighting off the advances of a horny teenage boy, and then she wanders into the woods and almost gets raped by another horny teenage boy, just to fall down into the sewer and get raped by slugs. Poor girl... she was f----d regardless of what she did. I love the way the dude's best friend died at the end of the movie and the other guy said that they wouldn't have been able to stop the slugs without him, yet the guy actually didn't do anything. He was a sidekick that didn't do anything at all. The script is horrible. What were these people talking about the whole movie? Some guy is married to a foreign chick that is twice his age and she is worried he will run off with a foreign chick half his age. Everyone is so frantic in this movie, it almost gave me anxiety. I guess the director was running out of ideas later in his age. Otherwise why would he pick one of the slowest most passive creatures to do a horror movie about? Keep an eye out for the sequel --- "Slugs 2: Slugs vs Sloths vs Superman"

Platypuschow A movie about killer slugs? Yet still not even close to the weirdest film I've seen lately.Slugs tells the story of a new breed of carnivorous slug that besieges a small town and the people stepping up to combat them.As ridiculous as the concept sounds the execution makes it really quite convincing and the movie is not for the faint of heart.With some very grisly effects, a lot of gore and that squirming under your skin vibe I was impressed how they made slugs a legitimate seeming threat.Though the movie is entertaining it's sadly not without its flaws, the soundtrack is ridiculous and would be at home in a 70's sitcom but not a serious horror movie like this.Credit where credit is due the folks behind Slugs did a great job considering the subject material, but make no mistake this is the very definition of B-movie.The Good: Effects are quite decent Has aged remarkably well The Bad:Concept is still a stretch Music doesn't fit the movie at all Things I Learnt From This Movie: Slugs are just homeless snails, maybe that's why they were so mad

rooee 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.

Scott LeBrun From Juan Piquer Simon, the late, great director who also blessed genre fans with such unforgettable gems as "Pieces" and "Pod People", comes this ode to those slimy little animals, who have mutated and become carnivorous thanks to that old cinematic standby, toxic waste. The monsters start claiming victim after victim, and only a select few individuals are willing to do anything about the problem, including County Health Inspector Mike Brady (Michael Garfield).Based on a novel by Shaun Hutson, and scripted by Ron Gantman, this movie is delicious...really. Who can see the scene with the lettuce and not feel hungry? "Slugs: The Movie" (named this way to avoid confusion with "Slugs: The Musical"?) is such good fun, and when watching it, it's hard to believe that Gantman, Simon, and company didn't have their tongues in their cheeks the whole time, what with the unrelenting delivery of so much priceless dialogue ("You ain't got the authority to declare Happy Birthday, not in this town!") and performances.They also show their willingness to cast aside expectations in terms of one scene late in the game involving an attempted rape. One memorable sequence features two young lovers who get besieged by the titular killers, and the male of the pair quite prominently displays his backside for the camera. Of course, if you want a true highlight sequence, it has to be the one in the restaurant with the VERY unlucky David Watson (Emilio Linder), which is so very appropriately timed.The gore and effects are quite fun to watch in this thing, and they're the work of Carlo De Marchis. The actors are all a hoot, especially Santiago Alvarez as John Foley, John Battaglia as Sheriff Reese, and prolific veteran Spanish actor Frank Brana in a brief cameo appearance.Horror fans whose tastes include the silly & cheesy 80s material are sure to find this a real treat, right from its amusing beginning to its impressive conclusion where a lot of things blow up REAL good. It's 90 minutes worth of engaging nonsense.Eight out of 10.