The Green Slime

The Green Slime (1968)

The Green Slime are coming!

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!

Date of release
1968-12-19
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (104)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Director
Kinji Fukasaku

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Japan

The Green Slime is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel and Luciana Paluzzi. It was written by Bill Finger, Tom Rowe and Charles Sinclair, from a story by Reiner.

Production

The Green Slime was a co-production between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ram Films, and Toei. MGM provided the funding and script while Toei provided the film crew and location to shoot the film. It was the second ever film co-produced by Ram Films and Toei after the 1966 film Terror Beneath the Sea.

The storyline for The Green Slime originated in Italy, where MGM also had dealings. Years before The Green Slime went into production, MGM had contracted Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti to direct what was intended to be a series of four television movies about the adventures of a space station called Gamma One.

The US theatrical release includes a subplot involving Dr. Lisa Benson as a shared love interest between Rankin (a former flame) and Vince (her current fiance). The Japanese release version leaves out this subplot to make the film faster paced.

Green Slime was shot in Japan with a predominantly Asian film crew and Western actors. Aside from Horton, Jaeckel, and Paluzzi, the rest of the cast consisted of amateur and semi-professional Western actors and models living in Japan at the time. Yoshikazu Yamasawa was the cinematographer, and the film was edited by Osamu Tanaka. Toshiaki Tsushima composed the original score.

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