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01 Feb 09 - 08:07 PM (#2554887) Subject: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Little Hawk I hadn't heard about this one before. It's from the late 80s, and it's about killer slugs attacking a small town. Read the reviews on this page for some amusement: Reviews of "Slugs" by the general public. Here's how one person describes the movie: Juan Piper Simon, that dependably shameless Spanish schlock shocker expert who blessed us with the staggeringly sleazy collegiate slasher swill "Pieces" and the horrendously lame pseudo-Lovecraft loser "Cthulhu Mansion," really outdoes himself with this flamboyantly foul, slimy, gore-soaked, grue-drenched, hell, flat-out outrageously splatteriffic bastardization of Shaun Hutson's sensationally squalid best-selling novel. A mutant strain of your average inveterate garden pests develop an insatiable craving for human flesh and subsequently start snacking on the deserving dipstick denizens of a heretofore dreary and uneventful snobby upstate New York suburb. The plot's every bit as trite and predictable as the above synopsis suggests. The cardboard cut-out characters are dull and nondescript. The performances from an uniformly atrocious cast are wooden enough to give your DVD player the TV equivalent to Dutch Elm disease. The dubbing simply stinks. Both the script and direction are very plodding and inept. However, the profoundly uncomfortable sense of unceasing, stomach-knotting vileness which permeates every last fetid frame of this gross, grimy, hideously ghastly fright flick makes it perversely enjoyable just the same. And the extravagantly gory'n'grody slug attack scenes certainly make this putrid picture a top-rate trashy winner. A poor handyman has to hack off his own hand with a hatchet after a slug crawls into his work glove. Another hapless fellow inadvertently eats a slug that somehow wound up in his salad (!) which later causes the guy's nose to bleed profusely into a glass of water and baby slugs to explode forth from his eyes. Two horny teens furiously fornicating their sweaty socks off get chomped in the nastiest example of celluloid coitus interruptus you are ever likely to witness in a killer mankind-munching carnivorous slug flick. Moreover, another little girl also gets graphically devoured and one luckless dude even falls into a sewer full of the murderous mollusks. Sure, this movie possesses no redeemable artistic attributes to speak of (and frankly who really cares about that pretentious high-falutin' nonsense?), but it's definitely so laughably bad and shoddy (not to mention downright ridiculous) that it overall cuts it as a good deal of righteously gruesome and lovably ludicrous cheeseball creature feature fun. |
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01 Feb 09 - 09:30 PM (#2554921) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Nickhere Have you seen Peter Jackson's 'debut outing' - the one he made about a town taken over by zombies? Again, so bad it's good.... On an aside, Rings fans will be delighted to know it looks like the Hobbit will go ahead soon and under the eye of Jackson (though Guillermo del Toro will be main director) |
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01 Feb 09 - 10:21 PM (#2554943) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Little Hawk Great! |
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02 Feb 09 - 06:49 AM (#2555113) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: kendall Worse than "Frogs"? how they ever talked an actor like Ray Milland to appear in such a loser is beyond me. |
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02 Feb 09 - 06:59 AM (#2555115) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: McGrath of Harlow If the film was as bad as the writing it must have been terrible. |
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02 Feb 09 - 09:14 AM (#2555213) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine I just have too see this film! |
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02 Feb 09 - 09:19 AM (#2555220) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: SINSULL How did I miss this one? I finally got a DVD player and watched The Maze on Friday night. AKA MY Uncle, The Frog. Pure idiocy. I loved it. |
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02 Feb 09 - 01:25 PM (#2555397) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Little Hawk If you go to YouTube right now, you can see the movie "Slugs". Is it bad? Yes. It's incredibly bad. If William Shatner had deliberately set out to make the world's worst movie ever...he still could not have made a movie this bad. That's how bad it is. Is it worth watching for laughs? Yes...if you really have nothing better to do at the time. |
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02 Feb 09 - 01:32 PM (#2555407) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Donuel so bad itw just palin bad is Disaster Movie. |
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02 Feb 09 - 01:56 PM (#2555427) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Wesley S BUG They Look Like Rocks...Possess A High Intelligence...Have No Eyes...And Eat Ashes...They Travel In Your Car Exhaust...They Make Fire...They Kill. |
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02 Feb 09 - 02:11 PM (#2555437) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Little Hawk Wow. Sounds great, Wesley. Thanks for the contribution. |
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02 Feb 09 - 02:49 PM (#2555458) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Wesley S As I recall we walked out of that movie when the bugs got into formations and started to spell out words on the wall as warnings. Really laughable. And don't forget "The Night of the Lepus". Giant rabbits on a rampage. |
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02 Feb 09 - 02:53 PM (#2555461) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Wesley S They were born that tragic moment when science made its great mistake... now from behind the shroud of night they come, a scuttling, shambling horde of creatures destroying all in their path. Night of the Lepus with Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, Deforest Kelly and Stuart Whitman |
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02 Feb 09 - 03:38 PM (#2555497) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: SINSULL Squirm is another winner. A downed power wire forces ALL the worms out of the ground in a maniacal state. Grossest moment is of them squirming up the shower drain. |
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02 Feb 09 - 03:41 PM (#2555498) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: SINSULL BUGS sounds like it is based on the Prometheus Curse (maybe Prometheus Bug), a trashy book about beatles with firefly tails that actually do light fires. They multiply like cockroaches and set fire to every major city in the world. Of course, some pathetic wretch keeps a few as pets - that's when they start flying and spelling in formation. LOL |
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02 Feb 09 - 03:45 PM (#2555500) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: SINSULL Wrong book - The Prometheus Crisis was about a nuclear reactor gone haywire. |
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02 Feb 09 - 04:54 PM (#2555554) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: frogprince I've been trying to find a reference to my all time worst movie, and can't find a thing. I saw it at an art theater in Chicago in the '70s or very early '80s. It was based on Saint Sebastian, but it wasn't one of the films titled "Sebastian" that I can reference. This one had to have been Italian, or just possibly Spanish. It Turned out to be totally homoerotic, which...uh...wasn't my cup of tea. But that wasn't half the problem. In this movie, "wooden" acting would have been a big improvement; some of the acting was excrutiatingly maudlin, and some of it was delivered in frantic, hysterical rants that I've never really seen anything like. This wasn't a candidate for the "so bad it's good" list; this was just mind-frying. I think some of the critics loved it. |
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02 Feb 09 - 05:15 PM (#2555573) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Little Hawk Some critics make a specialty out of admiring films that 99% of people can't relate to at all. It shows that only they (the critic) are brilliant enough to understand what the film is saying. ;-) There's nothing that brings a glow to the pathologically pretentious ego like thinking that you are the only one who "gets it". |
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02 Feb 09 - 06:13 PM (#2555640) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: Jack Campin If the movie frogprince saw was Derek Jarman's "Sebastiane", there are samples on YouTube. It was entirely in period-researched demotic Latin if I remember right. The only Jarman film I've seen was "Edward II", which was okay. I met him once, interesting bloke. |
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02 Feb 09 - 06:53 PM (#2555675) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: frogprince Jack, I thinks that's it; I didn't think about the possibility of it being a UK movie because of the language and subtitles. |
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03 Feb 09 - 04:39 PM (#2556474) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: GUEST,coyote breath w/o cookie Our local Save-a-Lot store sells new DVDs for $1! Needless to say they are often mystery flics. But once in a while they come up gems. James Cagney (and his sister!) in The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan. Gary Cooper in Farewell to Arms and Meet John Doe. Dementia Thirteen, and The Terror and The Hillside Strangler a docu-drama that bordered on the pornographic. I've got to find Slugs! I sort of liked the giant bunnies in Lepus, reminded me of Monty Python. Dangerous Game with Harvey Keitel and Madonna, really bad! CB |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:06 AM (#2557073) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: robomatic I don't know if I'd call this 'bad'; it's so trashy it's a hoot to watch, but may be a bit too 'icky' in spots for young kids. "Killer Klownz From Outer Space." |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:40 AM (#2557106) Subject: RE: BS: Wretchedly bad movie of the day. Slugs! From: frogprince Ah, yes, Madonna; I've been stupid enough to watch so many really lousy movies, I would be at a loss to pick one as my second-to-worst experience. But Madonna in "Body of Evidence" would be a real contender. |