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Slime City

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Slime City is a funky little b-movie along the lines of The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke Em' High. In fact, if the movie would have had some nudity, it would have had all the ingredients of a classic Troma movie. It starts out a little show, but this is one of those movies that gets better as it goes along.
Toward the end, Slime City becomes a gory, funny splatterfest. They just don't make them like this anymore. Actually they do, but not on a regular basis like they did in the 80's. If you want a movie full of gore, slime, and gross-out gags, Slime City is for you. If not, then why are on this page anyway?

"Slime City" is best described as a student film. The effects, camera work, acting and overall production are on par with what one would expect from a bunch of film students tasked with making a feature film. There are a lot of missed opportunities that would have made this film much better. For one, the film is played seriously, where comedy in the vein of "Re-Animator" would have been a better idea. The story is similar to many other "strange goings on for a new tenant in an apartment complex" type films. The new tenant is surrounded by oddball neighbors and soon becomes engulfed in a bizarre plot to allow the rebirth of some long dead occultist. The main selling point of the film is its gross-out effects as characters are consumed by a slimey substance that causes them to kill to retain their human form. The effects would have worked better if this film had played as a comedy as they are too over the top to be realistic. The DVD is well done with an additional feature by the same director as well as commentary and four trailers. There is also a making of segment. The effort in making this film is commendable but the film itself just isnt very good. The print used also has some damage and scratches, etc. throughout. I guess if you are into low budget films like "The Corpse Grinders" and "Blood Feast", you might like this.

I had high expectations for this film based on the previews, and, let me say, it met and exceeded every single one!

Slime City is, first and foremost, simply oozing with gobs of slimy gore! There are a couple of scenes that nearly made me vomit, but most of this gross-out gore is just hilarious! There's also a certain trashy quality to many of the scenes, which is a plus for fans of B-movie horror like me!

Additionally, I found myself becoming absorbed in the plot. I'm not quite sure I can put my finger on it, but something about the storyline is captivating.

Overall, Slime City is over-the-top, hilarious and, quite simply, amazing!

Bye for now!

SLIME CITY is a fantastic little micro-budget indie, right up there w/ BASKET CASE! Robert Sabin is Alex, the newest tenant in an apartment building full of oddballs. Alex is a nice guy w/ an equally nice girlfriend named Lori (Mary Huner). Of course, all this niceness cannot last, so Alex is soon seduced by his sultry neighbor, Nichole (also played by Huner); and winds up doing naughty things. Alex also has dinner w/ another neighbor named Roman, who serves him some green gloop and a strange liquér, supposedly left by a deceased alchemist named Zachary. Well, Alex wakes up one morning covered in slime, and has an irresistible urge to kill! Kill!! KILL!!! The gore effects that follow are very inventive, especially when considering the low-low budget! Alex is a tormented soul, and Lori must face him in the unbelievable climax, complete w/ dismemberment, decapitation, and a crawling brain! All setting my little black heart aquiver! Director Gregory Lamberson has fashioned a slippery classic of sickening (in a good way) proportions! Also included as a bonus feature is Lamberson's NAKED FEAR. In this one, Robert Sabin stars as an agoraphobe who hasn't left his apartment in ten years. He decides to take in a roomie, only to be caught up in a blood-drenched killing spree! The bodies pile up while the oblivious Sabin character finds love through a 900 number! NF is shot on video, yet has decent direction and enough of a story to make me overlook it's shortcomings. Both SLIME CITY and NAKED FEAR are perfect midnight snacks...

Slime City (Greg Lamberson, 1988)

If you're a fan of cult horror films, you've probably heard of Street Trash, an infamous 1987 splatter comedy by Mike Muro. The year after, sleaze merchant Greg Lamberson made his debut with Slime City, a picture that rips off Street Trash in every conceivable way save the plot. Which, if you think about it, is kind of impressive; you take everything else from a movie and attach a completely different plot to it? I like that. Not enough to change my original rating, because it's still a low-budget piece of tripe with no worthwhile actors, fumble-fingered direction, and the most godawful soundtrack this side of Ravenous, but you've got to admire the guy's gall.

Plot: Alex (Robert C. Sabin, who aside from debuting in I Was a Teenage Zombie, has appeared in nothing but Lambersom flicks) moves into a new apartment in a not-so-good neighborhood. On the way in, Alex and his pal Jerry (T. J. Merrick, who never acted again) are greeted by Nicole (Ghoul School's Mary Huner), and they both immediately fall in lust. Which makes life kind of tough for Alex, who has a girlfriend (also played by Huner!) who just won't go there. So he's trying to keep his hands off his new neighbor, but she's coming on strong. Meanwhile, Roman (Dennis Embry, who also never acted again), who lives upstairs, invites Alex up for a meal and feeds him something Roman calls "Himalayan yogurt."It's not, of course; in fact, when Alex wakes up the next morning, he's covered in slime and has an almost irresistible urge to go out and kill people. Obviously, there's something very wrong going on in this building besides the rent-control corruption...

That Lamberson was able to lure Kealan Patrick Burke, one of the fastest-rising horror authors on the planet, to star in the sequel, 2010's Slime City Massacre (which I haven't seen yet), is some testament as to the lasting effect this movie has had, on at least one consciousness anyway. But man, is this movie awful. The acting isn't all that far above grade-school level, the direction not any better. Even the lighting is bad enough that there are times the movie looks as if it was shot on DV (and I don't mean that as a compliment). This is an amateur film in every respect, and not a good one at that. (Charles Pinion released Twisted Issues the same year, also an amateur film, but so much better than this.) You may want to watch it if you stumble across it just for some of the unintentional hilarity, but you'll regret that you wasted ninety minutes of your life on it afterwards. *

Anyways, I own this movie I bought it a month ago with this same cover...must be a promo cause it's not released yet...anyways this movie is pretty cool it has lots of blood and guts and cheesy acting/with a black guy picking on a white guy then his stomach eats the black guy...crazy...