Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Slugs (1988)

aka Slugs: The Movie

Slugs with big teeth begin taking over a small town sitting on top of a toxic waste dump.  Slugs are all over the place. They're  infiltrating houses and ending up in food.  They also bite and if you're not careful, they'll kill you.  Heck, even if you are careful, they'll still kill you.  They can even fill the room with their slow, crawling, slimy bodies... if you're indefinitely distracted so you don't notice your floor is being covered by slugs.

When a woman inadvertently serves her husband a slug salad for dinner, he gets stomach pains.  The next day he's still not feeling well, but he has a business lunch to attend, which is unfortunate for the other diners when his head explodes.  Yuck!

As more townsfolk are killed by slugs, Mike Brady, the health inspector, figures out what's going on, but the Mayor and Sheriff won't believe him.

Mike and Don, who works in sanitation, come up with a plan to use a chemical to make the slugs explode.  The chemical has explosive powers when introduced to water and they decide to go into the sewers to find the slug stronghold.  Okay let's go over that again. They're going to take a chemical that explodes when introduced to water into the sewers.  Oh yeah, that ought to work out just fine.

The music is right out of a 1980s cop show.




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