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SLUGS (1988) IN FIVE MINUTES — THE KILLER SLUG MOVIE THAT WON AN EFFECTS AWARD.

From Juan Piquer Simón, director of Pieces, comes a gloriously unpleasant 1980s creature feature about carnivorous slugs and a town government moving even slower than the monsters.

Health inspector Mike Brady suspects the problem. Nobody believes him. A greenhouse becomes a bad career choice, dinner turns into a nightmare, and the sewers get the kind of finale that requires a city council investigation.

Based on Shaun Hutson's novel. Packed with practical-effects creature chaos. Winner of a Goya Award for Best Special Effects. Yes, really.

Personally cut by me for 5 Minute Drive-In. No AI movie edits. Some original music was shortened or removed because of copyright concerns. Spoilers and gross-out effects ahead.

For fans of Pieces, The Stuff, The Blob, Slither, 1980s eco-horror, practical-effects creatures, cult cinema, grindhouse, VHS horror, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira, Creature Features, USA Up All Night, MST3K, RiffTrax, and bad-movie podcasts.

WATCH MY FULL YOUTUBE EDIT:
https://youtu.be/etuK7wL4umI

THE 5 MINUTE DRIVE-IN PLAYLIST:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkxY-xQJazrnSZQqRbkFkxP3ldWLmbllc

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Five minutes of slime
0:08 Trouble begins
0:32 The investigation
0:40 Mysterious trails
1:04 Teenagers in trouble
1:20 Greenhouse disaster
1:44 The garden culprit
2:08 Bedroom danger
2:32 The sewer investigation
2:48 The dinner nobody should finish
3:12 Another garden emergency
3:20 Officials ignore the warning
4:00 A plan to stop the infestation
4:16 Protective suits
4:32 Into the sewer
4:48 Explosive finale
5:04 One last warning

FIVE FACTS:
1. The movie adapts a Shaun Hutson novel.
2. Juan Piquer Simón also directed Pieces.
3. Production used locations in New York and Spain.
4. The effects used real and artificial slugs.
5. Slugs won a Goya Award for special effects.

The trivia adds film-history commentary; it doesn't guarantee fair use. Sorry for the music and scenes that didn't fit. Five minutes can't hold this much municipal failure.

Tags: Slugs 1988, Slugs The Movie, Juan Piquer Simon, Pieces 1982, Shaun Hutson, killer slugs, mutant slugs, 80s horror, eco horror, body horror, creature feature, practical effects, B movies, bad movies, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira, Creature Features, MST3K, RiffTrax, VHS horror, movie edits, 5 Minute Drive-In

#Slugs1988 #CreatureFeature #80sHorror #CultHorror #PracticalEffects #5MinuteDriveIn

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Transcript
00:02There's something slimy down there. I don't like it.
00:05Aw, you're trying to scare me.
00:06Hey!
00:07Cut it out.
00:11Move it, scumbag!
00:13Them goddamn kids could've killed me, but they didn't.
00:19Excuse me for trying to have a good time.
00:21Another fun-filled night in Ashton.
00:23The armpit of America and center of boredom for the entire planet Earth.
00:27I crawl around in sewers.
00:28What?
00:28Do you think morning's attractive?
00:30She drinks too much.
00:32Do you like?
00:32Yeah.
00:34I got a lot more important things to do.
00:35Spend my time evicting drugs.
00:41Something ate the sucker's eyes right now, sir.
00:47Raccoons driven out of the hills by the cold?
00:49Rats, maybe.
00:50Something about the sewers being backed up.
00:52Since one of the goddamn sewers mind business.
00:55I want something done about that smell.
00:57I'm not on welfare.
00:58I pay my taxes.
01:00Whoa.
01:03What exactly do you do?
01:06Don't send that goat killer shit again.
01:08It's not shit.
01:09He really exists.
01:10The goat killer.
01:11He comes down from the hills at night and kills people.
01:14And then he eats them.
01:15That's gross.
01:15And he got rhyme foul last night.
01:18Some of the kids are going to a Halloween party at eight.
01:20And I don't like those wild parties.
01:22Slugs eggs.
01:23Slugs.
01:24Just get rid of them.
01:44Those things are big.
01:46I told you they were big.
01:47Big.
01:48They're gigantic.
01:49Shut up.
01:50That thing bit me.
01:51I don't know if a slug bites someone.
01:52I have a slug bite someone.
01:53I thought a slug bites someone.
01:54I thought a slug bites someone.
01:54What is that stuff, anyway?
01:57Mucus, you see.
01:58The slugs used it as an irritant for its natural predators.
02:00Just a crap.
02:01It's gone.
02:02I'm sorry for being a bitch so much of the time.
02:27We're dealing with a mutant form of slug here.
02:30A kind that eats meat.
02:32Ha!
02:32Killer slugs, for Christ's sakes.
02:34My people have been down in the sewers,
02:36and they have found half-eaten rats and chickens.
02:40OK, Don.
02:40I'm on my way.
02:41The clients are coming up here just for this meeting.
02:44That's a toxic waste.
02:45Every plastic and chemical plant in the area dumped into them.
02:49You're a fountain of good news.
02:50Cheers.
02:54Oh, my God!
02:59Where they planned to put that shopping center.
03:01Nothing gets cooler.
03:03Worms that killed that boy out there
03:04didn't just roll a skate in here and jump on his plate.
03:07Food poisoning?
03:08Mike, I was in there.
03:09I saw that guy.
03:10They're primarily night creatures.
03:12But a sewer.
03:20Contaminated water system will declare a health emergency.
03:22You ain't got the authority to declare happy birthday!
03:26Mutated slugs.
03:28If I turn on the water tap,
03:29a killer slug is gonna come out and get me.
03:33What's this?
03:35Lithium is highly combustible.
03:37Can we use this without blowing up the whole town?
03:39Brady and I are gonna go kill some man-eating slugs.
03:44Go to your mother's.
03:45They're all over the place.
03:47What happened to Bobby and Don?
03:49One shot at this.
03:50Have some pizza.
03:51I don't want any pizza.
03:52Try some.
03:52I don't like it.
03:53All you wanna do is play mind games.
04:01What's this one?
04:02She's a real bitch.
04:08Shit.
04:09You're crazy.
04:09These sewage gasses could be explosive.
04:11Don't worry.
04:15Come on.
04:15Go on.
04:16Near the rendezvous.
04:17Do everything okay?
04:17Minas.
04:18The sewer entrance.
04:19The old Star 3.
04:20Right.
04:21I'll open the manhole.
04:23We're gonna try to find ourselves a way out of here.
04:25Come on.
04:33Come on.
04:38Come on.
04:38Help it.
04:41Palma, where is he?
04:42Do it!
04:54Sorry about you, friend, Bert.
04:56You can go to hell.
05:05What'll it be next?
05:06Demented crickets?
05:07Rampaging mosquitoes, maybe?
05:08All right, all right, all right.
05:10So you explain the slimy shit on the floor
05:12and the dead bodies.

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