The Green Slime

The fungus grows into man-sized monsters which multiply rapidly and overrun the space station. Jackel and Horton are forced to set aside their romantic rivalry over Luciana Paluzzi (`Thunderball') while they battle the creatures. Blazing laser guns abound in a desperate battle with the unstoppable monsters! The astronauts even don spacesuits and jet-packs for a battle on the space station's hull. All this in glorious color AND wide screen. Wow!

Sure, this sounds great but . . . well, these guys didn't know what they were doing.

. . . Or did they?

`The Green Slime' looks more like a clever satire of sci-fi movies than an ineptly made film. The odds against all the side-splitting humor in this movie happening by accident must be astronomical. The potato-shaped monster suits are hysterical. The miniatures of the rockets are so tiny the camera can barely focus on them. The dialogue sounds like perfect parodies of sci-fi's most treasured cliches. (Example: The doctor rushes up to soldiers as their about to attack a slim monster. `Stop, don't kill it!' he pleads. `This is a magnificent discovery, and we must do everything possible to SAVE it!' -- and he says it in a perfect imitation of Richard Nixon.)

When the heroes' rocket tries to outrun an atomic blast, Robert Horton orders the pilot to increase thrust. But the G-forces are already so strong, the pilot can't lift his hand to reach the throttle. Macho Robert jumps up, walks to the pilot's chair, and pushes the throttle himself!

`The Green Slime' is so full of scenes like this that it should be re-released as `National Lampoon's Space Adventure'. And just wait until you hear the Jimmy Hendrix sound-alike title theme, a psychedelic rock tune. Its was even released on 45 rpm! (That's kinda like a CD, for those of you too young to remember.)

But this movie, call your friends, and mix up a batch of lime Jello as a snack. This is MST3K squared!


Best movie I ever appeared in.   September 5, 2002
John E. Reinertson (Marshalltown, IA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Richard Jaeckel was great.. courteous to the extras, acted well. Better production values than "King Kong Escapes" One of the better Japanese science fiction movies.

Little known fact.. the actor playing the monster in the green slime also played Godzilla in the 1960's Godzilla movies.

(An extra)


The Green Slime   January 27, 2003
Buford K. Casebolt (Osceola, mo United States)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful

Some years ago I actually saw The Green Slime at a movie theatre. It has aired on local televison at least several times since. I am glad to see that this one has endured, destined to be a cult classic, I think. It is the cheeziest of the cheezy, the wackiest of the wacky, and the slimiest of the slimy. Buy this video and you will laugh!!


The remake   February 2, 2001
traderje (Through the Window)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I saw this with my father in the 60s, and weapt for the demise of the misunderstood Green Slime. Full of metaphors. Green? Green with envy, of course.

When the inevitable remake comes, mark my words, and see if Marilyn Manson doesn't do a cover of the poignant, psychedelic Love Theme of the Green Slime.


Richard Jackal should get a Special Award?!   June 4, 2001
Heather L. Parisi (Pekin, IN USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Why should he? He kept a straight face throughout this farce and made the Green Slime throughly believeable [well sort of]. This movie is entertainment of such power that such epics as "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", "Morons From Outer Space" and others,equally plotless had to be made. Having said all that, The Green Slime, with considerable help from Richard Jackal, somehow manages to keep sci-fi fans glued to the tube in a way that Mr. Spock and Java The Hut never could.