The Green Slime is a hokey B-movie made by the Japanese with an all American cast in 1968. An asteroid headed to earth is destroyed by an experienced team of astronauts, only to have an unknown lifeform return to their base with them. The writing is incredibly bad causing a lot of unintentional humor, particularly when it comes to the macho posturing between characters Rankin and Eliot. Rankin is basically your run-of-the-mill no nonsense, prominent jawline, and dashing good looks all-American hero. The number of times he shows the ever-whining Eliot who's boss is incredible. The special effects are typical Japanese fare for the period--extensive yet shoddy miniature work and man-in-rubber-suit monsters. Aside from the fun theme song, the soundtrack sounds like they were sorely underbudget because a good majority of it consists of someone noodling one note at a time on an electric guitar. The Green Slime is entertaining but very silly.
4/10
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