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The Nest
Why this pick
Like Slugs, this is gleefully gross small-town creature horror: ordinary pests become a toxic menace, officials are slow to react, and practical-effects carnage drives the fun.
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MOVIE1988 1h 29m ESP
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Why this pick
Its slimy, toothy monster and homemade practical gore share Slugs’ affectionate B-movie spirit, building from a suburban infestation into energetic siege horror.
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C.H.U.D.
Why this pick
This similarly grimy eco-horror turns urban waste into a mutant underground threat, with skeptical authority figures and a satisfying creature-feature escalation.
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The Bay
Why this pick
For Slugs’ contamination-paranoia angle, this mock-documentary outbreak horror makes a townwide infestation feel unsettlingly plausible while steadily raising the body count.
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Squirm
Why this pick
This rain-soaked rural shocker offers another humble invertebrate turned lethal, balancing a mounting infestation, grisly set-pieces, and dead-serious B-movie commitment.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A rural town becomes prey to a strain of black slugs 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's theory might be right.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Garfield
Mike Brady
Kim Terry
Kim Brady
Concha Cuetos
Maria Palmer
Emilio Linder
David Watson
Patty Shepard
Sue Channing
Manuel de Blas
Mayor Eaton