The Green Slime

1969, G, 99 min. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Starring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel.

REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Mon., Nov. 19, 2001

A Japanese monster movie, The Green Slime is a camp classic about a slimy substance loose in a space station that thrives on atomic energy and threatens to take over Earth. It's hardly Alien, but then what is?

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KEYWORDS FOR THIS FILM

The Green Slime, Kinji Fukasaku, Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel