The Green Slime

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Hermione S Mar 19, 2018 Ridiculous, yet brilliant... Plus, one of the best high-camp theme songs from the late 1960's...

Albus S Jan 16, 2018 i cant say that i am too fond of the green slime

Leia S Aug 4, 2017 Released the same year as "2001: A Space Odyssey" this US/Japan co-production is embarrassingly dated and ridiculously campy compared to that Stanley Kubric classic. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who at this same time was directing some excellent, very tough Yakuza films and who'd later go on to direct the cult classic "Battle Royale," but this film lacks those films production values and most importantly a decent script. The set up for "The Green Slime" isn't all that bad. A giant asteroid is headed towards earth so a gigantic spaceship is sent out to intercept it. What ends up happening after they blow it up is the space adventurers inadvertently bring back the titular slime, which then mutates into some embarrassingly stupid looking one-eyed tentacled creatures. On the positive side, I did enjoy the colorful 1960s production design, which had a nicely campy Mad Men feel. I also found Fukasaku's overuse of dramatic zooms entertainingly goofy, adding to the film's camp value. Overall this is a terrible film that can only be enjoyed on a so-bad-it's-good level of entertainment, which did entertain me. See more

George R Jan 1, 2017 If you can see through it's rather cheap special effects this film is actually pretty entertaining, with lots of action and a wild and catchy theme song. See more

Anakin S Apr 13, 2014 The Green Slime turned out be just a slight touch better than I was expecting it to be. The film, while being dreadful in the dialogue and story department, is actually quite colorful and features lots of cool shots and camera movements, not to mention old-fashioned special effects that are both quaint and charming. Nothing is amazing, by any means, but I expected a boring-looking movie, and it wasn't that. It's trite because of the material (and the fact that they have to throw a love triangle in there for drama), but it looks much better than many of its contemporaries. And it has a groovy theme song too. See more

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