STOP SCROLLING — SOMETHING IS CRAWLING UNDER THE TOWN.
A Forgotten 1980s Horror Nightmare
There are horror movies that scare you with darkness, silence, and carefully hidden monsters.
Then there are movies like Slugs: The Movie.
Released in 1988 and directed by Juan Piquer Simón, this bizarre creature feature takes one of the least threatening creatures imaginable and turns it into a disgusting nightmare.
Instead of vampires, werewolves, or unstoppable masked killers, the enemy here is a swarm of aggressive, carnivorous slugs.
And somehow, that ridiculous idea becomes surprisingly effective.
Slugs follows health inspector Mike Brady, played by Michael Garfield, as a quiet American town begins experiencing a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths.
At first, nobody seems willing to believe that something crawling through the sewers could be responsible.
Mike, however, starts noticing a terrifying connection between the mysterious deaths and the underground sewer system.
WHEN THE NIGHTMARE STARTS
The movie wastes very little time establishing that these are not ordinary garden slugs.
The creatures are connected to pollution and an abandoned toxic waste site near the town,...
