Middle-School Movie Madness: Slithis!

    In 1978, my next door neighbor took a bunch of us squabbling kids down to the local theater (the grand old long-gone Kapahulu Theater), to see a new sci-fi horror flick called "Slithis" that my brother and his friends were dying to see, and a merry old time was had by all!
  There was quite a bit of a party atmosphere going on in that theater as I recall- for this promotion, they’d gotten some guy to actually dress up in a Slithis costume and walk up and down the aisles. Myuch to his chagrin, my older friends made it a point to follow and harass the monster as he made his rounds, poking and prodding him as well as gleefully squeezing his rubber costume butt!!!
  In the lobby of the theater, they offered forms you could fill out to receive the SLITHIS SURVIVAL KIT, and the gimmick was, if you saw Slithis twice and then sent in the ticket stubs you saved, you’d be sent this so-called survival kit in the mail.  After reading over the “fine print, my friend realized we could just walk around the theater and find all the discarded movie stubs all over the ground between the seats and send it in that very day! So we went crawling around on the floors of that theater between showtimes, and when we'd all found multiple stubs enough for all of us, we scurried home, filled out the form, and sent it off! 
   A few months later, I got a package in the mail- as I recall, an 8x10 manila envelope which was the said “Survival Kit”…The package contained a glossy 8x10 photo of Slithis complete with scrawly autograph (see the picture below, which a fellow Slithis Moviegoer uploaded awhile ago on an SF forum) 

Even MORE strange however, was the accompanying LETTER from Slithis, which not only told me to “Stay off the Drugs and Stay in School” (or some parental advice like that, which was very strange to hear from a deranged mutant killer monster), but it also told us to “Watch out for my SEQUEL, “SLITHIS RETURNS”!!!"
  Well we waited and WAITED, but ya know what, that movie never came out. Maybe they just couldn’t scrape up the cash to get it off the ground, or more likely, Slithis couldn’t bear coming back out to promote the new movie and then getting harassed by my friends again!