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Year:	1988
Country of origin:	Spain / USA
Director:	Juan Piquer Simón
Genre:	Slimy horror
Starring:	Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093995/
Tagline:	No-one is safe!
Favourite line:	"After I've dealt with these slugs, what do you say to we get naked and crazy?"

Based on Shaun Hutson's infamous schlock novel, this really should be far more dreadful than it actually is.

The plot:
Having transposed the action from the UK in the novel to the US on screen, we follow a sanitation inspectors bid to convince the local authorities that a series of grisly deaths in his sleepy rural town are the work of a new breed of flesh-eating, mutant slugs.
Inevitably, his warnings fall on deaf ears.....right up to the moment bodies start appearing and a man's head explodes in a restaurant as slugs eat their way from the inside out.....

Low budget this most certainly is, having the feel, acting wise, of one of those German porno movies where you know at any moment the woman is going to be shitting in someone's mouth but, let's be honest, you don't watch a movie called Slugs for the quality of the acting.
Though the moments of gore are fairly limited, presumably for financial reasons, they are nevertheless reasonably effective. The aforementioned head chewing scene is well worth a look, and there are several other highlights of slugs chewing their way through eyeballs, cheeks and the like. We also get plentifuol shots of the slimy little buggers writhing around over each other in a particularly suggestive manner, which could be seen as a deviantly delightful treat by some.
Not by me, mind.
Not by me.
Z grade horror this most certainly is, but worst movie ever made - as several reviews I have read claim - I think not.
Decent.