The Green Slime (1968)

Aaaahhh, this is too bad. The Green Slime had all the potential to be one of those dated but enjoyable sci-fi flicks. Unfortunately to much goes wrong to really call this film enjoyable.

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 gooey 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!

The Green Slime starts off pretty promising. The intro song is incredibly cheesy and right after that we get to see a lot of spaceships fly through space for about 30 minutes. This is all verry entertaining as it seems like director Kinji Fukasaku just turned his son's toy box up side down and just randomly picked some objects out of it to fly through space (read: a coloring with some stars) in his movie. Due to the cheesy level of the special effects this all stays very cool and entertaining. 
 
Unfortunately after that the film goes down hill. When the crew that was sent out to destroy a meteorite return to the space station it turns out that some alien scum hitched with them. The aliens look hilariously bad, as I expected them to look. Even than a film can be extremely entertaining (for example the 50's classic ''Robot Monster") but unfortunately that isn't the case in this movie. The battle between the human crew and the aliens is rather boring and I noticed that my attention was slipping away more and more. 90 Minutes is way to long for a movie like The Green Slime. 60/70 minutes would have been so much better but now it just seemed like it was never going to end. 

 The Green Slime starts off pretty cool but the entertainment level drops significantly as the movie continues. Especially in the last 20 minutes the movie barely manages to be interesting at all. I do ask myself by the way if Ridley Scott saw this film before he made Alien as the story is quite similar. 

Fun Fact (Source: IMDB)

 This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.