Sort of like ALIEN(S) . . . if the monster aliens were bean bags. Consistently energetic, typically ‘60s Japanese Sci-Fi Monster Horror, but with an All-Western Cast rather than a couple of Hollywood ‘ringers’ plugged in to gain Stateside commercial release. Instead, Robert Horton & Richard Jaeckel take off from a TinkerToy Space Station to save our planet from an Earth-bound asteroid. (And to fight over Luciana Paluzzi’s Med Officer.) It’s a suicide mission that goes so well, they make it back in time for the celebration (Day-Glo outfits swinging to a cool, hip beat), unaware they’ve accidentally brought back a speck of active Green Slime material which grows, splits, replicates & evolves into waddling monsters that look like Hallowe’en-themed bean bag chairs with deadly tentacles. Yikes! With its bright plastic look, rhythm-and-blues title track, telephone receivers that bump against space helmets and zippy, logic-free helming from Kinji Fukasaku, what’s not to like? (Note the ludicrous WARNING on our U.K. poster!)
DOUBLE-BILL: Best Japanese slime pic, on an all together different plane, Ishirô Honda’s THE H-MAN/58.
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