In the vein of Pieces, Slugs features a story just passable enough to work, a cast of unremarkable characters, over-the-top acting, and hilariously poor dubbing. Years later, JP Simon followed much the same formula with Slugs. Spanish Director Juan Piquer Simon blessed exploitation lovers with 1982 slasher cult classic Pieces - an especially gross, obscure slice 'n' dice flick that would go on to develop a devout following for its gruesome kills, nonsensical story, hilariously bad acting, and generic gory slasher goodness.
Synopsis: Man-eating slugs terrorize a midwestern town. We're looking at the latter in this list of sleeper creature features. They also brought a lengthy list of lesser regarded efforts, some of which gained cult followings, while others fell completely through the cracks. The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, or The Evil Dead. One would argue the 80s brought some the finest monster movies in horror history, i.e.
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80s filmmakers attempted to resurrect 50s movie magic in a new way often while shamelessly trying to recreate more recent blockbuster smashes like Jaws and Alien, which led to an abundance of amusing creature features, ranging from surprisingly great to enjoyable crap. The 80s proved to be an important decade in the revival of the creature feature, as 50s monster madness met camp, practical effects, and high levels of gore. While monster movies have been hot ticket items since the early days of film, genre lovers haven't tired of watching otherworldly creatures, rodents, mutants, and the like wreak havoc on screen. Then there's the laundry list of classically less threatening creatures that still leave behind carnage in B-horror history, like slugs, roaches, and bats. There's the commonly seen creatures like vicious sharks, killer crocodiles, and even deadly bugs.
There's the obvious movie monsters, like vampires, werewolves, mummies, and zombies. There's no boundary on what may constitute a killer creature in horror, and filmmakers are always finding fun, inventive ways of villainizing animals and objects. Many of film's most memorable villains are creatures thus, many of history's greatest horror films can be considered "creature features." Creature features, monster movies, or however you'd like to refer to them, are old defining staples of the horror genre that were as loved in the 50s as they are today.
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