The Slime People are the antagonists in the 1963 film, The Slime People.
A race of subterranean reptile-men they created a wall of "solidified fog" around Los Angeles using a strange organic-looking machine and proceed to invade the city after they are driven out of their subterranean homes by underground atomic tests. Due to the fog, plus their amorphous bodies ability to quickly seal up wounds inflicted by guns and knives, the creatures quickly managed to overwhelm most of the city. However their plans hit a snag when a group of human survivors discovered the solid fog could be made gaseous again with salt water, and also found a way to circumvent the creatures healing ability by stabbing the creatures with their own spears which, due to being hollow inside, would prevent the creatures wounds from sealing and eventually cause them to bleed out. Taking advantage of these facts the human survivors eventually managed to reach the Slime People’s fog machine and destroy it, upon which point the Slime People were immediately killed by the sudden temperature spike caused by the fog’s abrupt dispersal.
Appearance
The slime people are humanoid reptilian creatures made out of slime and seem to have fur with a scaly underbelly.
Powers and Abilities
The Slime Peoples possess the following powers and abilities:
- Organic Technology
- Regeneration
Fate
The Slime People Die from a rapid temperature rise when their 'fog machine' is destroyed.
Trivia
- The film ran out of money after nine days of shooting so the cast completed the film without pay.
- In an interview, star/director Robert Hutton said that neither he nor the stuntmen were ever paid for their work in this film.
- Because of this film's low budget, Susan Hart was given only $35 to buy her own wardrobe.
- According to director Robert Hutton in a 1989 interview, designing and making the slime people costumes consumed over half the film's entire budget.
- Robinson stated that the film was shot for around $80,000 and featured eight costumes worn by stuntmen.
- The producers originally planned to have creatures called voles in the film as well as the slime people. The voles would have been wolf-like animals from underground that had been domesticated by the slime people, but the were left out of the final script.
- The filmmakers originally intended to feature midgets as giant voles.
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