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Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel

A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a g...( read more  read more... )ooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

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PG, 90 min.

Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku

Release Date: December 19, 1968

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  • YosemiteSamFan
    June 9, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    I waited and waited for this movie to come on television after weeks of ads in the 1970's, and it did not disappoint. Firstoff, the title is not true. There is no slime in this movie. The aliens have tentacles and are electric. The title infers a blob-like movie. Wrong. It sorta ...( read more)reminded me of the Space 1999 two-parter "Dragon's Domain". Lots of astronauts were tentacled by the "Green Slime" aliens which had invaded their base. It had a very Japanese B-movie feel to it. Lots of action, but not very scary. Many cheese scenes, but watching it with a light-attitude, it can be fun.
  • guttersnipe28
    January 25, 2007
    guttersnipe28
    ne of the most attacked films of all time, Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime is an obvious attempt to cash-in on the burgeoning interest in 2001 (also released that year). But whereas Kubrick's space opera is positively majestic, the same cannot be said here.
    The Thing From Anoth...( read more)er World-aping plot delivers some apalling cornball dialogue, and the rest of the show doesn't fare much better: there's dreadfully wooden acting (witness the 'going up to 3 Gs' moment), the most obvious modelwork ever and it certainly doesn't date well, as best proved by the so-60s-it-hurts dance sequence, replete with then-fashion to boot.
    But as with Plan 9, it at least isn't pretentious. This is one of those daft, crap-but-amusing sci-fi Bs that made the fifties and sixties so entertaining. It may also claim as position as a cinematic milestone, as it was apparently the first joint Japanese-American film production. And one might also argue its influence on Alien, but whether Ridley was taking down notes from this mess for his first masterpiece is debatable.
  • threefolddado
    July 16, 2008
    threefolddado
    The Green Slime.... it rots your brain!
  • jazzmonk
    May 1, 2008
    jazzmonk
    This movie is worth seeing for the opening theme song alone. Everything about this movie is trite but it's great fun.
  • gavinrrsmith
    December 10, 2007
    gavinrrsmith
    It must be said up front that this film has a kick-ass theme song. The rest of the film is not quite as awesome as that theme song, but damned if it isn't fun. In an unnamed future year, an asteroid Flora is discovered to be set to collide with earth in only 10 hours. A group of ...( read more)astronauts, who are of course old friends with a history being reunited, depart from the nearest space station to land on Flora and plant explosives. While there they encounter a strange slime that is attracted to their equipment. Some of the slime attaches to one astronaut's space suit before they flee the asteroid and blow it up. Unfortunately, the decontamination process the space suits are run through causes the slime to not only grow, but to mutate into a bizarre cyclopean beast with tentacles that carry a deadly electric charge. If that wasn't bad enough, a single drop of the monster's blood can regenerate into another monster. Soon dozens of the electric fiends are running loose on the station and those trapped on the station must find a way to survive and destroy this threat. There's no denying that this film is cheesy. It is possibly the most 60s film you will ever see and features some truly pathetic special effects. Imagine if you will what would be the result if a special effects artist who was fired from special effects duties for the original GAMERA series because his work was too sub-par decided to make his own movie. That's roughly the result here. Making the shoddy effects even worse is that this film had the misfortune of coming out the same year as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The film's "hero" is also a smug, square-jawed jerk who is directly responsible for everything that goes wrong: he smashes the specimen jar the scientist used to collect a sample of the green slime thus splattering it on a space suit, he ordered a triple decontamination of the suits which enabled the monster to develop, and he ordered the creature shot on sight. Sadly he never gets the comeuppance he so richly deserves. One of the main saving graces of the film is that its critters are just so memorable. They're more cute than scary with their lumpy bodies, single red eye, clawed feet, sparking tentacles that wave in front of their chests, and their arms that limply hang at their sides for no apparent reason. True, the sound they make is truly annoying--although I marvel that they can continue to make it whilst in the vacuum of space--but the monsters are just downright lovable. Although, as many a character finds out, it is not advisable to hug them. So, it may not be the greatest sci-fi movie ever, but it's doubtful that anyone could watch it and not be entertained.
  • TheMysteryLlama
    October 29, 2007
    TheMysteryLlama
    godzilla stylee movie
  • philloz3000
    August 20, 2007
    philloz3000
    Two landmark science fiction films came from MGM in 1968. One was the masterpiece from the incomparable cinema master Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY. The other was NOT 2001.

    However, it had a much cooler theme song, with an opening riff that sounds lifted from Hendrix's...( read more) version of "All Along the Watchtower" and a throaty male vocal hammering home the lyric: "Is it something in your head? Will you believe it when you're dead? GREEEEEEEN SLIIIIIIIIME!"

    That cool-ass ditty was probably the best introduction you could get for this bizarre Italian-American-Japanese co-production, which featured our nation's finest collection of B-list "stars" willing to travel to Japan for a few bucks. Which is why we have to endure Robert Horton and Richard Jaeckel as two head-butting boneheads with a history of bad blood and a shared taste in voluptuous, red-haired space sluts from Italy (Luciana Paluzzi).

    In fact, the most impressive special effects are the huge mammaries belonging to sultry ex-Bond-babe Paluzzi who looks here just like she did in THUNDERBALL (1965); that is, hot, sexy and capable of sucking the chrome off of a car bumper, only dressed in crappy, "futuristic" space fashions.

    Otherwise, the quality of the effects are far below that of the average Godzilla film, with the models looking much more flimsy and toy-like. The spaceships look like they were put together from paper towel rolls and other, various tube-like structures - including what appears to be a flying vibrator with model tank treads attached to it.

    Best/Worst of all is the model of the Gamma 3 space station herself, a piss-yellow painted ring-shaped piece of plastic and string that wobbles alarmingly during a crisis. Curiously, it seems to alternate between spinning and not spinning to produce artificial gravity - yet there's always Earth-normal gravity inside the station anyhow.

    Which makes about as much sense as all the female astronauts on board wearing psychedelic minidresses and "Is that a tentacle in your space suit or are you just happy to see me?" thigh-high go-go boots while the men wear matching powder-blue jumpsuits and dorky white motorcycle helmets.

    But I digress. The film begins much like a later retarded space movie, ARMAGEDDON (1998): A huge asteroid (with Earth-normal gravity and WATER) is on a collision course with our fair planet, and there's only ONE alcoholic, smug, ramrod-up-his-ass space commander who's capable of saving the day and shitting on everyone else at the same time: Commander Jack Rankin (Horton), who has the annoying habit of flipping a thumbs-up sign every time he emasculates his crew.

    Keeping with a long tradition of smarmy, shithead "heroes" in science fiction films, Rankin also has a habit of getting other cast members killed and patting himself on the back for it (though at least he actually DOES something, unlike the infamous Cal Meacham from 1955's THIS ISLAND EARTH).

    After tooling around on the asteroid on their space golf carts (imagine hauling ass on one of those motorized shopping carts for the handicapped they have at Wal-Mart, but with the regular wheels replaced by the tiny, shitty wheels from an ordinary shopping cart ... over a field of partially dried, caked mud), Rankin is about to take off to the space station, ready to leave a crewmember behind, when that crewmember runs up with a specimen jar full of gross green stuff.

    After the crewman, Dr. Halvorsen (Ted Gunther) explains to the commander that the jar contains the first life found anywhere in space, Rankin, just to be a ball-busting jackass, takes the jar and deliberately SMASHES it to pieces on the ground, splattering green goo everywhere, including on their space suits. Why? First, just to be a prick, and second, to further the already labored plot.

    After barely outracing the nuclear explosion (why don't these guys ever give themselves enough time to get the job done properly?), Rankin decides to hang around space station Gamma-3 to bust the balls of his old ex-friend Vince Elliot (Jaeckel) while trying to steal his girlfriend (Paluzzi). Rankin's idea of seductive byplay: "You're making a big mistake, Lisa. You don't love Vince, you pity him." What a prick!

    So, naturally, he's around when the green shit on the space suit gets irradiated in the decontamination chamber. The radiation, naturally, causes the slime to grow into a big green boil with legs, tentacles and one huge eye. Naturally, Rankin blames everything on Elliot while verbally kicking him in the balls, and proceeds to destroy the station piece by crappy, toy-like piece until he kills everything he can possibly kill.

    Meanwhile, the goofy little green guys have reproduced and are swarming over the station, electrocuting and mauling every human being they come across. (Just why is it that they keep harassing the medical staff? Do they need first aid or do they just dig sexy space nurses?)

    The rest of the film is a delight of quivering rubber tentacles, manly male spacemen and shitty model work, but it just flies by. As far as Japanese-American co-productions go, it's not quite as impressive as 1970's TORA TORA TORA (co-directed by Fukasaku, natch), but it's a hell of a lot more entertaining.
  • xaltotun
    July 2, 2007
    xaltotun
    I can't stress to you enough just how entertaining this movie is. Commander Jack Rankin is my idol.
  • JudgeDeath
    May 11, 2007
    JudgeDeath
    A schlock classice. An early effort from the director of Battle royale!
  • stvcobbs
    March 16, 2007
    stvcobbs
    One of my Favs as a kid

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