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After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.
Bud Widom
- General Jonathan B. Thompson
- (as Bud Widham)
Richard Hylland
- Michaels
- (as Richard Highland)
Karl Bengs
- Rocket Pilot
- (as Carl Bengs)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe green slime creatures were played by Japanese children in bulky monster suits.
- GoofsAlthough the asteroid Flora appears not to have an atmosphere, both billowing rocket smoke and liquid water are present, indicating air pressure. However, smoke shouldn't billow as shown in the movie when the rockets are used in the airless vacuum space.
- Quotes
[examining a charred corpse from which smoke is still rising]
Lisa Benson: He's dead.
- Alternate versionsAlthough "The Green Slime" was released in the U.S. as a 90 minute version, director Kinji Fukasaku and his editor prepared a much more tightly edited 77 minute version (called "Gamma III: Big Military Space Operation") for release in Japan. This "Japanese" version eliminates the Robert Horton/Richard Jaeckel/Luciana Paluzzi relationship triangle, and is much more "militaristic" in tone. Several scenes are edited differently, additional alternate music cues are used (which are less "sci-fi" sounding than the "Amercian" version), and the rock and roll theme song is omitted entirely (replaced by a military march theme). The ending before the credit roll has additional scenes inserted with Paluzzi and Jaeckel, which change the tone of the ending from optimistic to downbeat.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Green Slime (1988)
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I remember as a kid sitting in an old run-down theater watching this movie on a Saturday afternoon and thinking "it doesn't get much better than this".
Rocket ships, laser gun battles with deadly aliens, risking your life for the "good of the planet".
Of course that was 1968 and this movie looks pretty unspectacular now compared to Star Wars etc. but it is a good example of the "space opera" of that period. A multi-national space station launches a ship toward an oncoming asteroid in the hope of preventing a collision with earth. Lives are risked but in the end disaster is averted and the asteroid is destroyed everyone is safe......but are they? What has been brought back to the station? Can it be stopped in time?
Good for those rainy afternoons with the kids, they may even enjoy it, you certainly will.
Rocket ships, laser gun battles with deadly aliens, risking your life for the "good of the planet".
Of course that was 1968 and this movie looks pretty unspectacular now compared to Star Wars etc. but it is a good example of the "space opera" of that period. A multi-national space station launches a ship toward an oncoming asteroid in the hope of preventing a collision with earth. Lives are risked but in the end disaster is averted and the asteroid is destroyed everyone is safe......but are they? What has been brought back to the station? Can it be stopped in time?
Good for those rainy afternoons with the kids, they may even enjoy it, you certainly will.
- cheeseforever2005
- May 31, 2004
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- Also known as
- Battle Beyond the Stars
- Filming locations
- Toei Tokyo Studios, Tokyo, Japan(Studio)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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