Last week, Cinema Sunday's January tour through classic science fiction looked at the threat of GIANT ANTS!
This week's sci-fi menace is....
SLIME!
And not just any old SLIME!
Beware the oozing terror that is....
THE GREEN SLIME!
From 1968, The Green Slime was shot in Japan with a Japanese director and film crew, but with the non-Japanese starring cast of Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel and Luciana Paluzzi.
Hence the mix of American and Italian actors with Japanese model work.
So here's the dealio: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
Well, zoinks! That can't be good.
It ain't and it's up to Commander Jack Rankin to take command of space station Gamma 3 and destroy the damn thing! If he doesn't succeed, don't bother coming back to Earth because... well, damn, everything will be dead.
The current commander of Gamma 3 is Vince Elliot who has some tense back story with Rankin (probably over a women and yeah, it is) but Elliot's trying to be cool with Rankin coming in and taking over since you know, the fate of Earth is on the line and that is kind of a priority.
Rankin leads a shuttle mission to the surface of the asteroid to blow it up real good! While on the asteroid, the crew discovers a strange amoeba like creature attaching to their vehicles and sucking the energy out. The science officer Dr Halversen tries to bring a sample of the green substance aboard the shuttle in a sealed container, but Rankin is all "We ain't got time for that shit! We gotta an asteroid to blow up" as he angrily throws the container to the ground causing it to shatter and guess what attaches itself to Halversen's space suit?
That's right!
THE GREEN SLIME!
Anyway, the asteroid gets blowed up real good and Rankin's team returns to Gamma 3 where it's time to party to celebrate with young women in mini dresses and day glo pastel tights frugging away to a swinging beat that's really way out happening, you dig?
Meanwhile guess what's starting to ooze and glow and throb and spread menacingly around the space station?
Of course!
THE GREEN SLIME!
Which evolves into strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity.
Rankin and Elliott have different ideas on what to do with the strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity. Elliott thinks that maybe there is an alien intelligence at work they can communicate with.
That doesn't work.
Rankin thinks this calls for some hard chargin', hard blastin', kick ass fightin'!
That just makes the strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity angrier.
And guess what's making even more of the strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity?
You betcha!
THE GREEN SLIME!
Which keeps on oozing and glowing and throbbing and spreading (I do declare, I must fan myself, it's getting so hot in here) and making more and more strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity.
Which are not not only overwhelming Gamma 3 but are also sucking energy out the space station causing it fall out of orbit and towards Earth.
And if it crashes into Earth, the whole planet will be devastated by....
You guessed it!
THE GREEN SLIME!
Fuck, they gotta blow up Gamma 3. Well, that worked so well on the asteroid.
Anyone who hasn't been turned into strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity make their way to escape shuttles while Rankin and Elliott take turns jockeying on who is going the big damn hero and blow up the big damn station and all these strange one-eyed tentacled creatures that kill people with electricity and also...
THE GREEN SLIME!
It's Eilliott who dies even though this whole mess is Rankin's fault.
Back on the asteroid, Rankin was all "We ain't got time for that shit!" as he angrily shattered the container that contained...
You know...
THE GREEN SLIME!
I hope the cost of Gamma 3 comes out of Rankin's pay check.
And that was The Green Slime.
Check out the theme song!
Next week's Cinema Sunday takes a look a pair of films that are usually regarded more as horror films but are arguably based on what many consider the first science fiction novel.
Next week: It's alive! It's ALIVE!! IT'S ALIVE!!!!
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