Notable Cast: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Phillip MacHale, Alicia Moro, Santiago Alvarez, Concha Cuetos
Spanish director J.P. Simon may not be known for making
great movies, but he sure is known for making entertaining ones. This is the
reason I was rather excited to dive into Slugs,
Simon’s little creature feature that features more slime, gore, and explosions
than one would ever expect a killer insect movie to ever have. Now I’m not
saying that Slugs is a film that
defies it genre and rises above it, rather I’m saying that it’s a film that
certainly embraces its tongue-in-cheek aspects and runs with them instead of
battling them. It’s hardly a great film in any sense, for a variety of reasons,
but there is definitely a reason why Arrow Video deemed it worthy of a
restoration and packed Blu Ray release. That’s because it is a film worthy of
the cult classic tag that packs a punch in with its shiny, slimy titular stars.
This is a film that ultimately entertains before anything else and for that it’s
deserving of its status.