Slugs

Slugs (1988)

Slugs: muerte viscosa

They ooze. They slime. They kill.

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.

Date of release
1988-02-05
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (224)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Horror
Director
Juan Piquer Simón

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Slugs
  • Filmed in: Madrid

Slugs, also referred to as Slugs: The Movie is a 1988 English-language Spanish natural horror film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, and co-written by Simon with Ron Gantman. Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson, it tells the story of a small town whose locals are terrorised by aggressive carnivorous slugs.

Production

Slugs was produced by Dister Films in Spain and the United States in 1987, with the setting of the film changed from Britain to America. Production was supervised by Larry Ann Evans, who had grown up in Lyons, New York and moved to Madrid to become a filmmaker and work with Juan Piquer Simón as an assistant. Interior scenes were shot in studios in Madrid, while exterior scenes were shot in Lyons.

Actors and actresses cast for the film included Michael Garfield Levine, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Concha Cuetos, Glen Greenberg, Jay R. Ingerson, Emilio Linder, Alicia Moro, John Battaglia, Santiago Álvarez, Manuel de Blas, Kari Rose, Kris Mann, Juan Maján, Lucía Prado, Frank Braña, Andy Alsup, Stan Schwartz, Harriet L. Stark, Patty Shepard, Miguel de Grandy, Tammy Reger, Toby Gold, Nazzareno Natale, Carla M.

The special effects and makeup effects were supervised by Emilio Ruiz del Río and done by Basilio Cortijo, Carlo De Marchis, and Patrick Tantalo, with assistance from David Johnson and Roy Knyrim. Both real and fake slugs were used during production; the real ones were provided by Taramundi, the effect where a slug bites Mike Brady's finger was achieved via an arm-sized finger (operated by Evans) and a large puppet, and De Marchis used juvenile e…

The film's score was composed and conducted by Tim Souster and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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