FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

thesar-2 Thanks, Bekah! What a fun time this was!I listen to a horror-movie podcast daily called Shockwaves. On it, 3-4 hosts comment on movies they saw that week and one cohost in particular, Rebekah McKendry, talks about Slugs almost weekly. It's her "guilty pleasure," though they try and shy away from that term.I'm a huge When Animals Attack films fan. Cheese, sure. Realistic, eh. But, when these creature-features cross my path, I just enjoy the sh|t out of them.This movie, I've been told (Thanks, Kevin!) was unintentionally hilarious. In the first few frames, it's rock-solid LOL. One could look at this, in those opening shots on a boat with the male-half being sucked into the water by some 3-inch slugs as a bad-bad film, but because it, and the dialogue, was so hilarious, I was instantly on- board.Apparently, previous toxic waste created these mutated, meat-eating slugs and they proceed to terrorize an "arm-pit" town. Of course, we have our government employees hot on the case to exterminate them!I've seen my share of When Animal Attacks films. They're all pretty much the same, like the ghost stories of late. But, this one stood out. Quite a bit, in fact. There were tons of creature attacks. More than the norm for these 80s horror subgenre films. And in a lot of the cases, the gruesome factor was at 10, like they were really trying. It's bad, sí. But, it's so painfully on target for this type of film, it's thoroughly enjoyable. You MUST like When Animal Attacks movies and bad 80s dialogue to get into it, but if you're like me…you'll slug right past the bad to get to the goods.***Final thoughts: Now, watch Squirm via the MST3k version. The same type of movie, but the MST3k guys really bring that movie to life.

Bezenby Before having a hobby of watching crappy horror films I used to read crappy horror books, and I think I might have read all of Shaun Hutson's Slugs books. I can't even remember if I liked them, but if I had to pick one guy to make of a film of Slugs, I would have picked the director of Pieces. That said, this film is in no way as crazy or (to be honest) entertaining as that classic, but it is a fairly straight forward filming of the book, transferring all the stomach churning gore from the book right up there on the screen for everyone to enjoy. Somewhere in America some killer slugs are starting to munch on the population of some town I couldn't be bothered remembering the name of, and it's down the local health inspector and sanitation guy to save the town. As a civil servant myself, I can say that this town is f*cked.As we get to see various people being eaten by those slimy gastropods, we also get to see our hero bursting into an awful lot of offices demanding to see people, other government workers laughing at his crazy ideas, and him telling his wife to stay safe while she's freaking out. Unlike Pieces, there's no random kung fu fights or roller skating here, and as we're dealing with a late eighties cheeseball film, everything's done pretty well. Which is a shame because more random madness could have elevated it to another level.And are slugs covered by animal rights? They sure kill a lot of them for real in this film. I grow my own veg and hate them, so I was just asking, like.

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.

innocuous You can't take this movie seriously...certainly the producer, director, and actors didn't. This is a movie crying out for the MST3K treatment, as there are just dozens of funny lines and situations. (One of my favorites is how the second male-lead questions a plan to dump huge amounts of "lithium-based arsenic" into the town's sewer system to make all the slugs explode. After asking, "You're not thinking of doing that, are you?" he basically goes along without any further argument or persuasion. You have to see it to appreciate the 180-degree turn he executes.) The music is unbelievable, too. Much of it sounds like it was stolen from a 1950s Saturday-morning kids' show.There's quite a bit of blood and some graphic sequences, but nothing too disturbing. In fact, there's no real tension at all in the movie. There's also a smattering of nudity, but just enough to hook the high school boys in the 80s.Another one of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Palmer (Phillip MacHale) meets two more couples at a bar near the beginning of the movie. The other couples are fairly young and attractive, as is Palmer. But his wife is (inexplicably) played by Concha Cuetos, a fairly popular actress in her own country. She ought to be playing a matron who is threatened in her home by the slugs. Instead, your first reaction is, "Palmer is dating HIS MOM?!?" Later on, when they start making lovey-dovey conversation, you really can't help but just laugh out loud and squirm a bit.Finally, the one scene that makes the movie totally worth it is the scene where a slug takes a nip at the lead character's finger. I won't tell you where it is in the movie, but be prepared to see the scariest slug ever.I would give this more stars, but some of the secondary characters actually seem to think that they were making a genuinely scary movie.