Product Details

• Actors: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Ted Gunther
• Directors: Kinji Fukasaku
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302181755
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,101 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best movie I ever appeared in., September 4, 2002

By	John E. Reinertson (Marshalltown, IA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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)

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A movie too funny to be an accident!, December 11, 2003

By	Bruce Cook (Fayetteville, Ga United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There isn't a single Japanese actor in this big-budget Japanese produced sci-fi drama, but the special effects are a dead give-away. A wandering astroid (code named `Flora') is on a collision course with Earth. Richard Jackel and Robert Horton lead a team which places atomic bombs on the astroid to blow it up. They succeed, but they unwittingly bring back an alien fungus to their wheel-shaped space station.

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 clichés. (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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Green Slime is Coming, April 21, 2000

By	Joel Reines (Marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

I actually remember sitting near a window in grade school at P.S. 166 in New York (I was 9 at the time) and seeing a skywriting airplane write "THE GREEN SLIME IS COMING". After advertising like that, I went to see this movie with my older brother. We loved it! One of those extra-cheesy space films of the sixties where the women still found time for heavy eye make-up in outer space.