Slugs Blu-ray Review Release Date: September 26 Click here to order your copy of Slugs: The Movie! “Killer slugs? For Christ’s sakes! What’ll it be next? Demented crickets? Rampagin’ mosquitoes maybe?” Spanish exploitation filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón of Pieces, The Rift and Pod People (as seen on MST3K) fame turned out perhaps his most cult-y picture for New World Cinema’s 1988 B-entry Slugs: The Movie.