Slime City

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?

I still throw this one on from time to time and thoroughly enjoy it, especially when I have friends over. Everyone seems to get a kick out of it whether we're laughing because it's actually funny or just plain stupid. It's definitely a good time.

Some of my favorite scuzzy, low-brow flicks from the 80s are Basket Case, Brain Damage, and Street Trash. I love when movies have that "seedy underbelly of the big city" atmosphere. I had high hopes that Slime City would be up there with these gritty low budget gems, and in some ways it is. Ultimately though, it's finest moments are greater than the sum of its parts. Don't get me wrong, I dig Slime City. When it picks up it's fun, entertaining, and charmingly bad. I won't be the 800th reviewer to go into the plot but the flick definitely holds its place in the pantheon of gritty, gory, low rent exploitation films like the ones I mentioned. There's some really solid moments of cheap gore and slimy, melty madness—especially that gloriously gory climax scene! Unfortunately, its biggest downfall is that it moves slow in between the fun stuff and takes its time to get there. The Shock O Rama SE DVD comes with a bonus Greg Lamberson flick called Naked Fear (1999) which I haven't seen, but can't wait to check it out. In typical Shock O Rama form there's also a ton of extras and trailers. The way I know a film has left a positive impact on me is if I can see myself watching it over and over throughout the years, and Slime City definitely has that quality. I'm glad it's a part of my collection.

No nudity, but rather violent and featuring some of the worst acting the genre has to offer. So, yeah, I liked it!There's something about the dregs of indie 80s horror that breeds an uneasing atmosphere. The writing and direction is awful and the acting can be completely stale. But this manifests something of a horror-appropriate awkwardness at times, doesn't it? Such is the case with Slime City, a film that doesn't go easy on the weirdness gas pedal.When we meet Alex (Craig Sabin; Naked Fear, Slime City Massacre) he is looking for a new apartment with his girlfriend in hopes that this privacy from his old roommate will break his lady's chastity. His frustrations are apparent and he seems to be getting tired of her, but he's quite interested in his promiscuous rocker down-the-hall neighbor who is actually played by the same actress as his girlfriend (Mary Huner; Undying Love).Yearning for company Alex accepts a dinner invitation from an emo poet neighbor who serves green Himalayan yogurt for dinner and, somehow, Alex readily accepts a glass of some mysterious green fluid that was prepared decades ago by a purported alchemist! He is told this directly right before he decides to take a sip. Whatever bad stuff happens to him, he has it coming for being stupid!Writer/director Greg Lamberson (Killer Rack) seems to follow hard in the footsteps of such delightfully stupid, gory, smutty and brutal predecessors as Street Trash (1987), The Toxic Avenger (1984) and Class of Nuke 'em High (1986). After Alex's weird green yogurt and beverage dinner date, he has a clothes-on sex session with the slutty girl next store and wakes up covered in some manner of perhaps sexually transmissible slime. His body is falling apart, oozing and leaking, with his skin about to slough off. Strangely, the only cure for this malady is to brutally bash in a hobo's head with a lead pipe! Then, POOF! He's clean, slimeless and normal again. So, evidently Alex is now a raging were-slime monster.As if taking after The Wolfman (1941) a fortune-teller gypsy warns his girlfriend of danger. Meanwhile, Alex wanders around like some hooker-soliciting mummy wrapped up in gauze, secreting mucous. He's like an addict. He can't stop drinking this alchemical concoction that makes him slime out, and then he must subsequently kill to appease the evil slime.Much to my surprise, there was no nudity at all. And good for them, I guess. While there is clearly a place in cheap horror for gratuitous nudity, this flick brings enough gore to the table that the women need only disrobe to put on a clean, slime-free blouse between scenes. The real entertainment comes in the form of super gory sludgy scenes including mimicking The Thing's stomach mouth, a crawling brain, and an attacking headless animated body like The Reanimator (1985)…there's a lot for gorehounds to enjoy here.It turns out there's a greater plot afoot. It involves Satan, the occult, resurrection, and all the jazz. Kinda' dumb. But for fans of ultra-low budget 80s horror and gore-slathered messy schlock, this should entertain you.

I for one love this movie. Its great...if you are a fan of street trash, brain damage, frakenhooker...you will love this. It has that great new york gritty style that the 80s had. Cool atmosphere and just a great flick to watch on a weekend night.

A real yawn and no t&a, 2 stars for a little gore. Street trash waaay better

It is a great movie at a great price good seller smooth transaction

Don't waste $1.99 on this movie! It was gross and looked like it was filmed in someone's house.

Mann oh mann,also so eine abgefahrene Splatter-Trash-Gurke muss man schon einmal gesehen haben damit man den Kopf ne Weile schütteln kann. Die Darsteller sind allesamt untalentiert und extrem schlecht und spielen ihre Rollen sowas von hölzern. Da kann Pinocchio weit mehr. Die Atmosphäre ist wiederum ganz schön dreckig,ein heruntergekommenes Apartment und verwilderte Hinterhöfe.Die Story sehr ähnlich wie die weitaus besseren "Street Trash" , "The Incredible Melting Man" , "Elmer" oder "Basket Case".Nachdem der Hauptdarsteller Alex seine neue Wohnung bezieht,macht er Bekanntschaft mit einer sexbesessenen Nachbarin und dem Junkie Roman der ihm gleich ein grünes Pudding serviert. Nachdem er das merkwürdige Ding verspeist beginnt sein Körper sich zu Verändern. Er beginnt an zu schmelzen und wird von Mordlüsten getrieben. Seine Freundin kommt ihm allerdings auf die Schliche...Die Splattereffekte sind ganz lustig ausgefallen wenn z.b. ein abgetrennter Arm mit Messer in Alex's Magen verschwindet.Die FSK18 ist schon angebracht weil es nebst Splattereinlagen ziemlich viele derbe Sprüche unter der Gürtellinie gibt.Etwas billig ist auch die dt.Synchro,aber es gibt noch viel Schlimmere davon.Das 16:9 Bild ist auch nicht gerade scharf wie ein Rasiermesser. Man merkt dass es sich hier um eine billige Indy-Produktion handelt und demnach auf günstigem Material gedreht wurde.Wer "Troma" und sonstige Trashgurken liebt kann vorsichtig hier reinschnuppern...

Now this is a cool movie, I swear if I didn't know differently I'd say Frank Henenlotter himself directed it, the plot involves a young polite man who manages to rent a good looking apartment on the cheap not knowing just what he got himself into, soon he ends up spending time with the trashy offbeat individuals residing in the building and through them tries some old booze belonging to an alchemist who died years before in that very apartment, soon he's hallucinating and killing whilst becoming something slimy and grotesque, the seedy settings and people give a real feel of the underbelly of 80's New York and the gooey effects are as good as you'll find, in the end its like putting "Street Trash", "Class of Nuke 'em High" and "Brain Damage" in a blender and I think its fair to say the film took a certain amount of influence from all three, the highlight of this film is in the last ten minutes during which so much slime, puss, blood and god knows what else goes flying about you'll never forget it.On the disc is a free second feature by the same director called "Naked Fear" which is not as good but worth a watch, it concerns a man with agorophobia (fear of leaving his house) who takes on a tenant who just wants to best buddies, sadly he goes a little too far when he feels people get in the way of this, its quite suspenseful at times because obviously living in a top floor apartment that he can't leave the main character is pretty helpless even once he realises the severity of the situation, all in all I liked it but its completely different from "Slime City" so don't go into it expecting something along the same lines.Both films have audio commentaries, there's a short interview with the director and a small selection of trailers for other films round off the disc, at the time of writing this DVD is discontinued so it'll be pricey but if you can get a copy go for it, trust me, you'll have the slime of your life!