Slugs (film)
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Slugs, muerte viscosa is a 1988
American
horror film
based on the novel Slugs
by Shaun Hutson
. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded.
Several scenes supposedly occurring in the same location were shot in different locations. This is because almost all of the exterior shots were filmed in Lyons, NY and the interior shots were filmed in Madrid, Spain.
s spawned from toxic waste dumping. It is up to the local health inspector to stop them. People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert begins snooping around does it begin to appear as though Mike might be right.
1988 in film
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United States
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horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
based on the novel Slugs
Slugs (novel)
Slugs is a 1982 horror novel written by Shaun Hutson. In 1988 it was adapted as an American horror film of the same name. In this book, carnivorous slugs go on a rampage.They Slime... They ooze... They kill......
by Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson is a writer of novels including horror novels and dark urban thrillers. A native of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, England, Hutson now lives and writes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire....
. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded.
Several scenes supposedly occurring in the same location were shot in different locations. This is because almost all of the exterior shots were filmed in Lyons, NY and the interior shots were filmed in Madrid, Spain.
Synopsis
A rural town becomes prey to a strain of black slugBlack slug
The black slug also known as black arion, European black slug, or large black slug, scientific name Arion ater, is a species of large land slug, a terrestrial slug in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.-Description:...
s spawned from toxic waste dumping. It is up to the local health inspector to stop them. People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert begins snooping around does it begin to appear as though Mike might be right.