Slugs, muerte viscosa (1988)

Note Générale:

3,7/10   

Réalisateur:

Juan Piquer Simón

Scénaristes:

José Antonio Escrivá (writer)
Ron Gantman (screenplay)
(suite)

Date de sortie:

février 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Horreur

Accroche:

No-one is safe!

Intrigue:

Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community.

Plot Keywords:

Slug | Vomit | Blood Splatter | Female Rear Nudity | Small Town

Récompenses:

1 win & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

The Slugs Crawl in, the Slugs Crawl Out, the Slugs Get In Your Body, Shoot Maggots Out Your Eye and Make Your Face Explode.

Ensemble

Michael Garfield	...	Mike Brady
Kim Terry	...	Kim Brady
Philip MacHale	...	Don Palmer
Alicia Moro	...	Maureen Watson
Santiago Álvarez	...	John Foley
Concha Cuetos	...	Maria Palmer
John Battaglia	...	Sheriff Reese
Emilio Linder	...	David Watson
Kris Mann	...	Bobby Talbot
Kari Rose	...	Donna Moss
Manuel de Blas	...	Mayor Eaton
Andy Alsup	...	Officer Dobbs
Frank Braña	...	Frank Phillips
Stan Schwartz	...	Ron Bell
Juan Maján	...	Harold Morris
Lucía Prado	...	Jean Morris
Patty Shepard	...	Sue Channing
Miguel de Grandy	...	Mr. Riggs
Tammy Reger	...	Pam
Glen Greenberg	...	Danny Palmer
Jay R. Ingerson	...	Ricky Palmer
Harriet L. Stark	...	Mrs. Fortune
Toby Gold	...	Dino
Nazzareno Natale	...	Chef
Carla M. Fox	...	Julie
Isabel Prinz	...	Mayor's Secretary
Laura Notario	...	Mr. Phillips' Secretary
Daniel Jones	...	Teenager 1
Kristin L. Kilian	...	Girl 1
Edward Trathen	...	Teenager 2
Erik Swanson	...	Boy in Boat
Karen Landberg	...	Girl in Boat
Aníbal Blas	...	Waiter
Laramie G. Evans	...	Mr. Moss
Nevada Killips	...	Mrs.Moss
Larry Bornheimer	...	Policeman 1
Wally Frazer	...	Ambulance Driver

Réalisé par
Juan Piquer Simón		(as J.P. Simon)

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
José Antonio Escrivá		writer (as Jose A. Escriva)
Ron Gantman		screenplay
Shaun Hutson		novel "Slugs"
Juan Piquer Simón		writer (as J.P. Simon)

Produit par
Francesca DeLaurentiis	....	producer
José Antonio Escrivá	....	producer (as Jose A. Escriva)
Juan Piquer Simón	....	producer (as J.P. Simon)

Image
Julio Bragado

Montage
Antonio Gimeno		(as Antonio Jimeno)
Richard E. Rabjohn

Distribution des rôles
Bill Williams

Direction artistique
Gonzalo Gonzalo

Décorateur de plateau
Gonzalo Gonzalo

Création des costumes
María Eugenia Escrivá		(as María Escrivá)

Maquillage
Pedro Camacho	....	assistant makeup artist
Manu Moreno	....	hair stylist
Manu Moreno	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Larry Ann Evans	....	production supervisor

Assistant réalisateur
Vito Hughes	....	first assistant director

Département Art
Ángel Arriola	....	assistant set decorator (as Angel Arriola)
Vincente Cervantes	....	construction manager
Kari Christensen	....	property master
José Tomás Cuadrado	....	painter
Vicente Jesús	....	assistant set decorator (as Vincente Jesus)
José Lizana	....	head carpenter (as Jose Lizana)

Technicien du son
Julio Bartolome	....	boom operator
Alan Brett	....	dubbing editor
Luis Castro	....	foley artist
Nigel Edwards	....	dialogue mixer
Colin Martin	....	dubbing mixer
Ivan Martin	....	boom operator
Orestes Matacena	....	boom operator
Enrique Molinero	....	sound re-recording mixer
Phil Pearle	....	sound mixer
Edward Tise	....	sound mixer

Effets spéciaux
Basilio Cortijo	....	special effects
Carlo De Marchis	....	special effects supervisor
David Johnson	....	special effects technician
Roy Knyrim	....	special effects foreman
Emilio Ruiz del Río	....	special effects (as Emilio G. Ruiz)
Patrick Tantalo	....	special effects coordinator

Cascadeur
Paco Alvez	....	stunts (as Francisco Alves)
Maryluz Esteban	....	stunts
Juan Maján	....	stunt coordinator (as Juan Majan)
Rodolfo Montero	....	stunts

Caméra et Département Electrique
Fred Armstrong	....	best boy
Carlos Bustamante	....	still photographer
Joaquin De Diego	....	assistant camera
Casimiro Dengra	....	gaffer
Mark Foggetti	....	camera operator: second unit
Salvador Gómez Calle	....	focus puller (as Salvador Gomez)
Salvador Gómez Cuenca	....	clapper loader (as Salvador Gómez Jr.)
Francisco Jurado	....	electrician
Laureano López	....	electrician (as Laureano Lopez)
Juan Mariné	....	cinematographer: second unit (as Juan Marine)
Diego Molina	....	crane operator
Fernando Moreno	....	electrician
Steve Nitzberg	....	gaffer
Donald Sutherland	....	key grip
Donald J. Sutherland	....	key grip
Andres Torres	....	focus puller: second unit
José Villalba	....	focus puller: second unit (as Jose Villalba)
Jay W. Yowler	....	generator operator (as Jay Yowler)

Département Casting
Gustavo Casado	....	casting: Madrid
Carmen Zorrilla	....	extras casting: Madrid

Département Costume et garde-Robe
Allyn Perry	....	wardrobe mistress
Pilar Tavera	....	seamstress

Dpartement Editorial
David Jimenez	....	assistant editor
Soledad López	....	assistant editor (as Soledad Lopez)
Magdalena Paradell	....	assistant editor (as Magda Paradell)

Département Musique
Tim Souster	....	conductor

Département Transport
John Loson	....	production driver
Joaquín Ruiz	....	transportation captain (as Joaquin Ruiz)

Divers
Félix Acaso	....	voice dubbing: John Battaglia
Francesca DeLaurentiis	....	script supervisor
Francesca Escriva	....	continuity
Monica Escudero	....	assistant accountant
Eduardo Macho	....	financial supervisor
Cristina Martin	....	assistant to producers
Diego Martín	....	voice dubbing: Philip Machale
Magoya Montenegro	....	location manager
Ramon Serrano	....	production assistant

Companies de production

• Dister Group

Distributeurs

• New World Pictures (1988) (USA) (theatrical)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (DVD)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (VHS)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (19??) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Panarecord (Italy) (VHS)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Starmaker Entertainment (1991) (USA) (VHS)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Slugs (Philippines: English title)
Slugs: The Movie (USA)

Durée:

92 min | USA:89 min

Pays:

Spain | USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Metrocolor)

Rapport de forme:

1,85 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | France:-16 | Finland:(Banned) (1988) | Netherlands:16 | UK:18 (2009) (uncut) | Australia:R (Banned in Queensland) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:(Banned) | Iceland:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | UK:18 (cut) | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restreint

Lieux de tournage:

Madrid, Spain

Société:

Dister Group

Anecdotes:

It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded.

Goofs:

Continuité: When Mike Brady and the sheriff are driving down the road in the police car, the camera on the driver's side clearly shows that Brady's window is rolled up, but in the next shot over on the passenger's (Brady's) side, he throws his cigarettes out the window.

Guillemet:

Frank Phillips: You don't have the authority to declare Happy Birthday!

Connexions:

Références Jaws (1975)

The Slugs Crawl in, the Slugs Crawl Out, the Slugs Get In Your Body, Shoot Maggots Out Your Eye and Make Your Face Explode.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, because when I said it the first time, I was alone...just like now...

Hmm...

Oh, never has a horror movie been so deliciously cheesy than it was in the 80's. Delicious, delicious cheese in the form of THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, SLEEPAWAY CAMP and SLUGS was smashed into the faces of film-goers who never knew how lucky they were until it was all over. The 80's was a time in which horror movies were allowed to be fun. They were filled with inconsequential characters who's first name you would be hard-pressed to remember as they ran from a killer with a drill, or from an animal/insect gone amok, or from what would turn out to be a 13-year-old hermaphrodite with a freaky face and a tiny dingle thing.

Here we have SLUGS, one of the best 80's horror movies. It's about a small town overrun with Donna Summer. No, I kid. Of course this town is overrun with SLUGS. Not the sticky, slow, undeadly kind, but the sticky, slow, DEADLY kind. These slugs could crawl everywhere and anywhere, but these slugs mostly preferred to crawl in Old Man Trash's trash basement, filled with empty pizza boxes and other trash. (For the record, my goal in life is to live like this man, in that when I have trash, I throw it down the cellar steps into a room I apparently will never need to use). So, since slugs love garbage (a fact that I learned watching SLUGS; also a fact they may very well be untrue), they descend to Old Man Trash's trash basement and they hang around, sucking onto trash as if it was an aphrodisiac. This will be their home base to suck trash and have slug sex, I guess.

Right around here is when we meet Mike Brady, a health inspector and 1/9th of a Bunch of Bradies. Honestly, was naming a character Mike Brady during the enormous popularity of THE BRADY BUNCH a smart move? Hey, better yet, you know what WAS a smart move? SLUGS!!

The best way to dictate to you what SLUGS is about would simply be to have you think of JAWS. Take away JAWS and put SLUGS in the title. That's basically it. Small town Mike Brady realizes a strain of mutant slugs is invading the town. He attempts to alert authorities; said authorities laugh. People begin to die one by one under strange, mysterious, slug-like circumstances. Then an expert on slugs shows up and the two hunt the slugs.

However, one thing Spielberg's film never had: an exploding face.

Or slugs.

But I digress.

As Mike Brady begins his investigation on this strain of sticky killer slugs, we meet his next door neighbors, of which the wife is a drunk--a plot point that will play heavily later on in the film--and the husband who wears suits and does nothing else. Hey, remember when I said the wife was a drunk and that it would play heavily in the film? Well, that can play heavily now. Wife comes home from grocery shopping, pours a glass of wine, throws a bundle of lettuce into the sink and passes out on the couch. Then a slug shows up, having crawled out of the drain and into the lettuce. Wife eventually wakes up from her drunken stupor and begins cutting the lettuce--you guessed it--and the slug! Later that night, husband eats the lettuce, and slug slices, and feels wonderful about it. He feels so wonderful, in fact, that when he takes his wife out to eat the following night, blood drains out of his nose into his water glass and his face explodes.

SLUGS!!

Mike Brady comes home to the news that his neighbor had been killed. Then he sees a giant slug in the garden and it bites him when he points at it for too long. He marvels at the biting slug, and also at its size, which is about 6 inches. I guess that's impressive, but if you're Mike Brady, you're f*cking terrified. Soon, the said expert from earlier shows up and they begin their sluggery. Meanwhile, a couple of naked high schoolers, while in their lovers embrace, fall victim to a sea of slugs that formed quickly on the floor under their bed. The slugs crawl inside their butts (probably) and they also explode (hopefully).

Without ruining the end for you, Mike and other guy blow up the entire sewer system, killing all the slugs. Sewer lids rain down upon cars and street like it's the apocalypse. Then Mike and other guy celebrate with a glass of Slug champagne.

Unless the other guy died in the sewer.

I think he died in the sewer.

Mike celebrated the end of the slugs with a glass of slug champagne.

The slugs were never seen again, but you know what was seen? Crap like SAW, HOSTEL and other crappy crap that made horror movies unfun again. Hopefully one day Eli Roth will eat a slug burger and his face will explode.