The Green Slime is a ridiculously poorly produced 1960s science fiction horror film that is absolute fun that should be watched with a group of friends to mock MST3K style.
The Green Slime
— Warner Archive Collection —
(1968)
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Horror
Warner Archive | G – 90 min. – $21.99 | October 10, 2017
Date Published: 10/21/2017 | Author: The Movieman
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THE MOVIE — 3.0/5 |
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Plot Synopsis: After a perilous mission to a huge asteroid, a crew returns to its space station, unaware that a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman’s uniform. The green goop grows into murderous, tentacle monsters. And as station members fight to live, gunk from the monsters’ wounds turns into more monsters! Now Commander Jack Rankin (ROBERT HORTON) must work with Commander Vince Elliott (RICHARD JAECKEL) — as the pair has a contentious past including when Dr. Lisa Benson (LUCIANA PALUZZI) left Rankin for Elliott — to find a way to attack these creatures. Quick Hit Review: There is some debate whether or not The Green Slime was intentionally or unintentionally hilarious and seen through today’s cinema, the former would be true, but for its time, I believe the latter. This is an utterly cheesy and often laugh-inducing sci-fi adventure produced by the Japanese company Toei and even though it does feature English-speaking actors, for whatever reason bad dubbing was still used. Then you add in some silly looking monsters that were anything but frightening and you’ve got a recipe for a fun time watching an incredibly bad movie. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 0.5/5 |
| The only feature included is the trailer (2:12; HD). |
VIDEO – 4.25/5, AUDIO – 3.75/5
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| The Green Slime oozes onto Blu-ray courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection (MOD) and is presented in its original 2.35 widescreen and has been remastered with a new 1080p high-definition transfer and this does look incredibly good. It features sharp detail throughout and colors, such as the green slime itself, appear to be natural and, best of all, no noticeable or obvious signs of artifacts, aliasing, dust, dirt or other flaws.
The included DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track which sounds pretty good. Dialogue levels come through with nice clarity and even features some okay depth during the action-centric sequences like on the asteroid or the crew fighting the monsters. |
OVERALL – 3.0/5 |
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Overall, The Green Slime is a ridiculously poorly produced 1960s science fiction horror film that is absolute fun that should be watched with a group of friends to mock MST3K style. The Blu-ray released through Warner’s Archive Collection has good video/audio transfers but only a trailer in the features department. |
Check out some more screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.