Slime City

Director - Greg Lamberson (Johnny Gruesome, Slime City Massacre)
Starring - Robert C. Sabin (I Was A Teenage Zombie), Mary Huner (Ghoul School), and T. J. Merrick
Release Date - 1988
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "A horror film with guts"
Format - DVD (Personal Collection) (Slime City Grindhouse Collection)

Rating (out of 5):

     The 80's is a decade that I absolutely adore.  I prefer the horror films from that decade but I will honestly watch any film from that period.  Many of you know that I am a collector and I collect a wide variety of films.  Within my collection I have hundreds of smaller collections including Full Moon films, exploitation, slashers, zombies, and 80's.  I was searching around a list of 80s horror films on imdb.com when I found this particular film on the list.  I watched the trailer and thought it looked liked good 80s cheese.  I found a small box set on amazon.com with this particular film, Johnny Gruesome, Naked Fear, and Undying Love.  All the titles sounded awesome so I went ahead and ordered it.
    Alex (Sabin) is looking for a new apartment so he can have some alone time with his virgin
girlfriend.  He finds the perfect place in an old apartment building.  However, the tenants seem a little off.  His neighbors do not eat meat, in fact, they do not eat anything but colorful "yogurt."  Alex eats some of the yogurt after a tenant invites him over for dinner.  Alex's skin starts to secrete slime and he loses control.  He walks the streets until he finds a homeless man and beats him to death with a pipe.  After doing so he returns to normal.  Alex quickly discovers that the apartment building he is living in was once the home of a cult that committed mass suicide and the yogurt he has been eating is the ectoplasm of those in the cult.  It is then up to his virgin love interest to stop his oozing rampage before he kills everyone in his path and slays her virginity.
     The 80s was a decade that covered everything in cheese even though the cheese was unintentional for the most part.  That is what made those movies so damn fun.  The directors loved movies and loved making them even more.  The directors had fun making their movies and that same fun shows on the film.  Movies like Evil Dead II, House, House II, Killer Klown from Outer Spaces, and so forth are cheesy films that were only made to entertain the viewer.  Sure, they did not have stories that made you think but they did keep you entertained and watching till the very end.  Slime City fits that perfectly.  The films may have been hard work but it was surely a labor of love.  The director had to be extremely satisfied with his finished product.  The acting in this one is hit and miss.  The younger cast members do a decent job and make the film easy to follow.  However, the older cast members make the scenes very uncomfortable to watch.  It is very obvious that they had no prior work on film and if they did it was not enough practice.  The story is very clever but nothing thought provoking.  I really enjoyed the story to be honest and loved how the paranormal was mixed with murderous impulses.  I really enjoy seeing something original.  Finally, the special effects are very good and truly add to the overall film.  We get some very cheesy and campy kill scenes filled with colorful slime and gore.  True horror fans will definitely get a kick out of this one.  Overall, this is a hell of a good time...with slime.  I highly recommend it.