The Green Slime starts as the United Nations Space Command (or UNSC for short) detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The big boss General Jonathan Thompson (Bud Widom) calls in his best man, soon to retire Commander Jack Rankin (Robert Horton). General Thompson stresses the danger Earth faces, they asteroid (named 'Flora' for some reason) is six million tonnes of space rock that will hit Earth in ten hours & wipe all life out & lets face it it doesn't get more serious than that, does it? Commander Rankin delays his retirement & accepts the mission to destroy Flora. In no time at all Commander Rankin is aboard the 'Gamma 3' space station orbiting Earth, the plan is to land on Flora plant explosives & blow it up, simple eh? Well everything goes OK until an idiot named Michaels (Richard Hylland) starts messing around with some green slime, some of which sticks to his trouser leg. Back aboard Gamma 3 & the team are treated like heroes while their suits go for decontamination. It's not long before the blob of green slime has grown into a large green tentacled alien monster which feeds on energy & will kill any human standing in it's way. Rankin shoots it with a laser gun but it's blood also grows into more slime monsters, soon the entire space station is overrun with the bleeding things...
This Japanese, American & Italian co-production was directed Kinji Fukasaku & is as entertaining & fun a film from start to finish as one could wish to watch. The script by Tom Rowe & Charles Sinclair moves along like a rocket & is never boring or dull which is most definitely a good thing. It's all rather silly but that's all part of it's goofy charm & entertainment. The character's are ridiculous, the love triangle between ex best friends Rankin & Commander Vince Elliot (Richard Jaeckel) over Dr. Lisa Benson (Luciana Paluzzi) is really cheesy & some of the dialogue & macho posturing between them has to be seen & heard to be believed. The green slime themselves are class, how can you not love the things? The screeching noise they make, the big solitary eye, their lumpy somewhat shapeless bodies & their waving tentacles? OK they are just guys in ill fitting rubber monster suits but they still have to be some of the best & most memorable aliens monsters featured in a film from the period, I mean all monsters from that period were guys in rubber suits, right? One more thing, I didn't think they were slimy enough considering they are the green slime, once fully grown they're rather dry.
Director Fukasaku directs as if The Green Slime were a cartoon with bright garish colours, simplistic shapes & basic spaceships & equipment. There's a real psychedelic 60's & 70's feel to the sets, colour schemes & costumes, The Green Slime is anything but futuristic looking. The special effects are an area that everyone seems to bash, well OK that's fine because effects have come a long way in forty odd years & if your one of those people who criticise a film such as Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) because the CGI doesn't look that good then The Green Slime definitely isn't the film for you. Sure I'll admit none of the special effects in The Green Slime are particularly convincing but I've seen worse & once again they just add to the fun rather than take from it.
Technically the film is OK apart from some poor (by todays standards) effects work. The widescreen cinematography is impressive & I absolutely love that opening theme tune, where can I buy a copy? The acting isn't great although Paluzzi makes for an attractive love interest.
The Green Slime has some unconvincing effects, the acting is rather wooden & the spaceships & equipment used look horribly dated but it has a certain charm, a certain something about it & of course it has the green slime themselves together with they're fantastic song! I throughly recommend it without hesitation.
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